Creating your First Form

You have now built your first form. In this tutorial you learnt:

• How forms are organised into groups
• How to create a public form
• How to add fields to a form
• The importance of naming forms and fields
• How form settings like labels, autocomplete, error messages and patterns help users to complete your form
• That action fields are processed when a page is submitted
• How to use the email and confirmation message action field

Further reading

The following pages provide more information about forms and the forms designer.

• Form Groups - Creating and editing form groups, and importing, exporting and publishing groups of forms
• Form Fields - Information and examples for all of the fields you can use in your forms
• Publishing Forms  - Saving forms as work in progress, unpublishing forms and publishing "for production"
• Using the Forms Designer - An overview of all of the menus, settings and terminology used in the designer
• Control who can edit which forms via user Content Privileges and iCM Content Roots