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LilitMAdobe Employee
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March 14, 2023
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Check out the new Workfront form designer in Preview!

  • March 14, 2023
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Dear Community,

We are excited to announce that we have enabled the Form Designer Beta in the Preview environment, which is set to replace the current Workfront forms in the near future. To try out the new form designer, simply click on the "Try form designer Beta" button on any new or existing form. If you need to switch back to the current forms, the option is also available.

The new Form Designer offers a number of improvements, including:

  • Optimized form layout
  • Improved canvas where you can view the actual structure of the form without having to switch to Preview mode first.
  • Ability to copy fields 
  • Soon-to-be-supported resizing for Descriptive text fields
  • Offloaded form builder by moving field tracking and form/field sharing controls out of the forms.

Please note that Skip/Display logic configuration is temporarily unavailable in the form designer but will be added shortly. All existing logic configurations will continue to function normally.

We would appreciate it if you could take the time to try out the new form designer and share your thoughts with us using the Feedback button. Your input will help us improve the experience before we move from Beta to General Availability.

Thank you!

Lilit

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    Rafal_Bainie
    Community Advisor
    Rafal_BainieCommunity Advisor
    Community Advisor
    March 14, 2023

    This is great news! although not revolutionary at the moment I do expect that in the future more interesting options, e.g. combining in a form custom and default fields to get uniform look and feel. I will play around with this.

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      Adobe Employee
      LilitMAdobe EmployeeAuthor
      Adobe Employee
      March 14, 2023

      Definitely! Watch out for more updates in the coming releases :)) 

        Christina_Jarosz
        Christina_Jarosz
        Level 9
        March 14, 2023

        It looks interesting.....a little different navigational wise with it on two sides vs. all on the left.

         

        Things that I'd love to see:

        - Being able to have special characters in field labels. Since these are not used in calculations, I'm not sure why we can't. (ex. I cannot have a name that says Please select all that apply: because you cannot add a colon.

        - Being able to set logic easier. I don't believe you can currently opt-out of viewing a field - you have to instead select all the fields that you want it to see. 

        - More intuitive form layout.

        I'm really looking forward to these updates as we have some upcoming form changes. 

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          Adobe Employee
          LilitMAdobe EmployeeAuthor
          Adobe Employee
          March 15, 2023

          Thanks for the feedback! Can you please elaborate what layout you'd prefer to see for a more intuitive experience?

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          D____D
          Level 4
          March 14, 2023

          cool. ... you all taking any feedback on this version or is a feedback system built into preview already? If not, where? 

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          Adobe Employee
          LilitMAdobe EmployeeAuthor
          Adobe Employee
          March 15, 2023

          We have added a Feedback button on the new form designer, in field settings area. Please use it to share your feedback with us. Thanks!

            Kurt_Jones
            Community Advisor
            Kurt_JonesCommunity Advisor
            Community Advisor
            March 15, 2023

            One of the best features of the current iteration is the ability to see what other forms a specific field might be attached to so you are cautioned if modifying...I did not see that in the new Preview version, is that going away?  If so 😢  

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            Adobe Employee
            LilitMAdobe EmployeeAuthor
            Adobe Employee
            March 15, 2023

            It will be added back soon :))

              Madalyn_Destafney
              Community Advisor
              Madalyn_DestafneyCommunity Advisor
              Community Advisor
              March 15, 2023

              Sigh of relief!

              If this helped you, please mark correct to help others : )
                RandyRoberts
                Community Advisor
                RandyRobertsCommunity Advisor
                Community Advisor
                March 16, 2023

                There is one thing that would be a game changer; Field Validation.

                 

                Every form builder has had it for at least a dozen years… except Workfront.

                 

                Thank you.

                  Rafal_Bainie
                  Community Advisor
                  Rafal_BainieCommunity Advisor
                  Community Advisor
                  March 16, 2023

                  YES

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                  Adobe Employee
                  LilitMAdobe EmployeeAuthor
                  Adobe Employee
                  March 22, 2023

                  Thanks, Randy! Introducing field validations is on our roadmap for the new form designer. 

                    Kundanism
                    Kundanism
                    Level 10
                    March 17, 2023

                    Hi @lilitm 

                    Are we getting feature of template in custom form similar as in dashboard?

                    Where you can place your custom fields to be appeared in specific shape and boxes.

                    Thank you.

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                    Adobe Employee
                    LilitMAdobe EmployeeAuthor
                    Adobe Employee
                    March 22, 2023

                    Hi, Kundan,

                     

                    That's not planned at this point but definitely something worth for us to look into. Thanks for the idea! 

                    Rafal_Bainie
                    Community Advisor
                    Rafal_BainieCommunity Advisor
                    Community Advisor
                    April 5, 2023

                    one more thought on my end. Very handy option in forms aside from "default selection" is "remember user's last choice".
                    Example use case, Dropdown field with list of languages. I want to specify English as default (let's say 80%) of submissions, but than for everyone who submits in other language they always need to adjust English to their preferred language,e.g. Korean, Italian etc.

                    This requires more attention from users in "minority group"

                    RandyRoberts
                    Community Advisor
                    RandyRobertsCommunity Advisor
                    Community Advisor
                    April 5, 2023

                    I think we just need a clarification of which user we're referring to. I would assume they mean if you've used this form before, it will remember your choice, is that correct?

                     

                    Remembering the choice of the admin that built the form doesn't seem likely as that doesn't make sense to remember one person's choice for everyone.

                    Rafal_Bainie
                    Community Advisor
                    Rafal_BainieCommunity Advisor
                    Community Advisor
                    April 6, 2023

                    assumption is correct. end user's choice is what should be remembered. 

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