A Subform is a secondary form that lets you add multiple line items to your primary form. A Subform can be used in order forms, booking forms, application forms, and more to collect additional details associated with the primary form.
For example, when respondents place orders using your order form, they can add multiple products as entries in a Subform, and the number of products can vary with each order.The Subform responses can be included in the Thank You page and email notifications as a table or a summary. The values from a Subform can be used in the Formula field to perform calculations and while collecting payments from your respondents.
Zoho Forms offers three different Subform types:
Note:To add a Subform to your form,
Drag and drop the Subform field from the form fields in the left pane onto your form builder.
Drag and drop the required fields into the Subform and configure its Properties.


When you do not want duplicate entries in your Subform, you can apply the duplicate check validation. You can configure this for individual fields as well as for a combination of fields.
With this option, you can select a combination of 2 or 3 Subform fields and restrict duplicates only when all values of the selected set of fields are duplicated. For example, if the Phone and Email fields are selected as a combination, the entry will be marked as duplicate only if both the Phone and Email fields contain duplicate values in a row. If not, the entry will be accepted as valid.
You can choose to display the sum of all the numeric values entered for a field in your Subform.
To do so,
The sum of field entries from a Subform can be included in the Thank You page and email notifications by merging the Subform responses using the merge tags.
Supported Field Types: Number, Decimal, Currency, Formula, Slider


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