Introduction
The key to leveraging UnicornForms is our data structure by labeling your fields. We have a number of options in our left field panel:
Text Field
Text fields are simple text input fields limited to 255 characters. They have the following field properties:
- Field Name
- Field Grouping
- Personal Information (PII)
- Field Masking
- Field Assignment
- Max Length
- Help Text
- Required
Date Field
Date fields are dates. They have the following field properties:
- Field Name
- Field Grouping
- Date Mask
- Today's Date
- Field Assignment
- Help Text
- Required
Select Field
Select fields are either single or multi-select fields. They can be visualized in three ways: 1) Dropdown menu, 2) Multi-select check boxes or 3) Single-select radio buttons. They have the following field properties:
- Field Name
- Field Grouping
- Select Field Type
- Dropdown Select
- Radio Button Select
- Checkbox Select
- Field Assignment
- Help Text
- Required
- Select Options
- Click on the plus button to add options
- To add an "Other" option, check the other box, which can be named
Signature Field
A signature field has two flavors: 1) Signatures and 2) Initials. These can be provided by a user in three ways: Drawn, Typed Text and Uploaded Image. It has the following field properties:
- Field Name
- Signature Field Type
- Signature
- Initials
- Field Assignment
- Help Text
- Required
This is what an end user sees when they sign.
Text Area Field
For text input longer than 255 characters or expecting multiple lines, a Text Area is the most appropriate field. It has the following field properties:
- Field Name
- Field Grouping
- Field Assignment
- Help Text
- Required
Attachment Field
We allow attachments in all of our documents, which allows you to add nice extra functionality to PDFs, for example. It has the following field properties:
- Field Name
- Field Assignment
- Help Text
- Required
- Attachment Limit
- Limited to 10 files total
- Limited to 20 MB total
Question (Deprecated)
This is a deprecated field. It is a text field that originally attempted to handle long field names, but we rolled its behavior into our normal Text Field.
Checkbox
For single checkboxes in PDFs, we offer a checkbox field. We also provide this option in our Document Editor. This is an optimized version of a Select Field where the field label displays next to the checkbox. It has the following properties:
- Field Name
- Field Assignment
- Help Text
More Fields Coming!
We always receive requests for more form field support, such as numeric or currency. If you have an urgent one, please get in touch with us and we'll put it on the roadmap.