Form controls

Use form controls to define the fields, labels, and layout of your form. See List of form controls to find out more information for each control.

Form controls are available in the Form toolbox of start forms and in the General group of the form toolbox in task forms. Task forms are accessed from task actions of a workflow whereas start forms are accessed from the Start event.

Note: Control configurations affect behavior of the form on loading only. You can define rules to set form behavior after loading, when user interacts with the form, or when the user finally submits the form. For more information on rules, see Rules.

Add a control to the form

  1. In the Designer tab of the Forms designer, find the control you want in the form control toolbox.

  2. Drag the control you want onto the canvas.

For information about the list of available form controls, see List of form controls.

Configure a form control

  • On the form designer canvas in the Designer tab, click the control.

    The control configuration panel appears on the right.

Copy a control

  • On the upper right of the control you want to copy, click (Copy control). A duplicate of the form control is added to the form.
  • The duplicate control has the same configuration as the original control. If you want to change the configuration you can open the configuration panel and update as required.

Delete a control from a form

Note: Deleting form controls does not remove any workflow references to those controls. If a workflow action references the newly deleted control, then we recommend managing that reference before publishing the workflow. The references are easier to manage before publishing because successful publish removes all references. (Publish fails if mandatory fields are now empty due to deleted controls.) For more information, see Manage control references.

  • On the form designer canvas in the Designer tab, click or hover over the control and then click .

    The control is removed from the form.

    Before you publish the workflow, we recommend managing any workflow references to the deleted control. You can manage references to deleted controls either automatically by removing or replacing all references or manually, one by one. For more information, see Manage control references.

Manage control references