Suggested Feature - Form Builder

[alien-nibb]

If someone knows jotform they will know how easy and fun it is to create new forms.

I actually have their hosted software, which you can install in your own server as well. I could integrate it with PWB, but this would still be an external software to maintain.

I think it would be a huge + if the system had a form builder. I don´t mean something as fancy as jotform but something that at least lets users create their own simple forms with drag and drop.

Providing a fixed template form is just to basic because users have different needs on their websites. They should be able to create their own forms that has at least 2 options. Email results or let them view them on online in their PWB system.

This is not hard to do, in particular with HTML5. Just let users select some pre made fields, drap and drop them in the form builder, hit save, and then let them put that form on any page. Let them create multiple forms they can use in multiple places.

I noticed that its useless to have a fancy web builder or nice templates if a user cannot make it alive. Alive means put interaction on their websites so visitors can do something more than just browse. And forms is a great way to do it. Because once they can build their own forms they can use this for anything they like, user registration, comment, contact form, or any kind of data submission from their pages.

I think a good web builder should have at least a basic form builder into it.

I hope Parallels takes notes on this as there are several ways to deliver this as a module.

 

[Egor Chernodarov]

Thanks. I've forwarded your message to WPB PM.

Did you see that "contact form" module already has customizable fields? Maybe do you want to improve them?

 

[alien-nibb]

Thanks. I've forwarded your message to WPB PM.

Did you see that "contact form" module already has customizable fields? Maybe do you want to improve them?

That is extremely poor. It has 3 options per field. No radio checks, not select lists...

The option it has is "Insert Field" and for that 3 options, long, short and email.

There is almost nothing you can do with it. Now I would never use this, since I would custom code it but users would. An example is how popular form builders are:

Here are 2 examples of what I mean:
http://www.wufoo.com/form-builder/
http://www.jotform.com

Now I don´t say it should be as powerful, but you get the idea. Even basic form builders allot at least basic stuff. The contact form module right now is just that. A contact form.

I would rather rename that module to "Forms". Then allow the user to select a form template, contact form, guest book, etc. Or custom to let them him build one. The idea of the fields is correct and that would work, but it should have way more options since its severely limited and to basic. This is what brings a website alive so it should be considered as a priority. Some users would actually buy or use a system like this only for its form builder if its easy, fast and fun to use.