Field Label
A field label denotes the name for a field in the live form. It is also used while configuring formulas, integrations, conditional workflows, and more while building a form. You can also customize field labels to improve the form-filling experience for your respondents.
To make a form field name clear, ensure it is concise, and directly reflects the information being requested.
To change the position of the field label in your form,
Click your Form Title to access the Form Properties.
Under Label Placement, select if you want the field labels in your form to be placed at the top, to the left, or to the right of the fields.
Hiding a Field LabelYou can choose to hide the Field Label by selecting the Hide Field Label option for the following fields:
Single Line, Multi Line, Number, Decimal, Phone, Name, Address, Currency, Date, Date-Time, Email, Website, Dropdown, Terms and Conditions, Subform.If you choose to hide a field label, it will be hidden in the following places:
- Live form
- Saved form
- Edit Response in live form
- Record edit option in All entries/Report entries/Task Entries/Approval Entries
- In the HTML/ HTML with CSS embed codes of the form
- Form Review
- Subform fields in the Thank You Page summary
- Email Notifications
Instructions
You can specify the instructions or hints for a field to help your respondents fill out the form.
Range
Validation
Form fields can be validated by applying certain conditions such as Mandatory, No Duplicates, Allow Negative Value, etc.
Mandatory: To make the field mandatory for the respondents to answer, select Mandatory.
No Duplicates: To accept unique responses for a field from the same respondent, select No Duplicates.
Allow Negative Value: To allow respondents to submit negative values for the field, select Allow Negative Value.
Note: For Name and Address fields, you can choose the field elements to be mandatory under the field Properties.
Visibility
You can choose to show/hide your form fields in the live form.
- To hide a field from the respondents, select Hide Field.
- To restrict your respondents from entering data into a field, select Disable Field.
Note: For Name and Address fields, you can click the visibility icon to the left of a field element under Properties to remove the element from your form.
Privacy
You can mark your form fields as personal or encrypt the field to protect sensitive data from misuse.
Select Mark as Personal to prompt users about data sensitivity when setting up certain configurations in the form.
Select Encrypt to secure the sensitive data from misuse and prompt users about data sensitivity when setting up certain configurations in the form. The responses of an encrypted field will be masked while printing and downloading reports.
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Text Case |
Description |
Example |
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User Input |
Text Case Conversion |
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System Default (-) |
Retains the original text case in which the respondents enters the text |
Service provided was good |
Service provided was good |
Upper Case (AA) |
Forces all text entered in the field to be displayed in uppercase letters |
Service provided was good |
SERVICE PROVIDED WAS GOOD |
Lower Case (aa) |
Converts all entered texts in to lowercase letters for consistent formatting |
Service provided was good |
service provided was good |
Proper Case (Aa) |
Converts the first letter of each word into uppercase while the remaining letters are in lowercase |
Service provided was good |
Service Provided Was Good |
A Reference Label, which acts as a field identifier, will be available under Properties. You can enter a label for the field under Reference Label and refer to this to identify the field while configuring settings, integrations, and other workflows. The reference label will not appear in the live form.
You can Edit or Delete the customized field label. Upon deletion, the Reference Label will become the field label.
In the popup, enter each choice in a new line, or use a comma separator between the choices.
Select Replace existing Choices if you wish to replace the already existing choices and click Done.
To add more groups, click the icon and repeat the above steps to add choices under each group.
Click Save.
Check out an example of grouping choices for better understanding.
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