Designer

In the Designer tab, you can design your form, divide your form into multiple sections, configure multi-page forms, and define the types of data your form captures by adding different form controls.

See Nintex - Form for more information on starting a workflow with a form, and Assign a task on how to create form tasks.

Toolbar

Use the toolbar on the form designer to save your form and undo or redo your recent changes.

Button	Description
Apply changes	Click to save all your changes and close the form designer.
Cancel	Click to close the form designer. A dialog box appears to prompt that there are pending changes in the form and will be lost if you close the form designer. Click Cancel to return to your form designer. Click Continue to close the form designer without saving your changes.
Undo	Click to erase the last changes of your form.
Redo	Reapply the changes that were deleted using the Undo button.
Start with PDF	Opens the Intelligent PDF Forms Converter to convert a PDF form into a Nintex Form. For more information about the PDF form converter, see Intelligent PDF Forms Converter . Note: Only available if you have purchased the add-on for your subscription.
Import	Displays the Open dialog box to select a file for import.
Export	Initiates browser process to download the form to a local file.

Toolbox

The toolbox contains items such as form controls and workflow objects. See Form toolbox for more information.

Forms

Pages

Forms can be composed of multiple pages, and users can navigate between pages by using the Next and Previous buttons or by clicking the Page numbers or titles. The Submit button is placed at the last page.

Add pages to your form

You can make your form easier to navigate by using multiple pages. You can configure the form to display pages vertically or horizontally, and control whether users must step through the pages in sequence.

To add pages to your form:

In the forms designer, click Configure pages.

The Pages configuration panel appears.

Pages fields and buttons

Field/ button

Description

Add new page

Adds a new page to the form.

Type the title for your pages.

When you new add pages, the Page titles default to Page 1, Page 2, and so on.

Form pages display in the listed order. You can rearrange and delete pages using the options button beside each title.

Page title options

Button	Description
	Displays page menu options.
Move up	Moves the form page: Above the previous form page if the navigation layout is vertical. To the left of the previous form page if the navigation layout is horizontal.
Move down	Moves the form page: Below the next form page if the navigation layout is vertical. To the right of the next form page if the navigation layout is horizontal.
Delete	Removes the form page (and form controls on the form page).

Title size

Select the font size of the form page titles:

Small
Medium
Large

Navigation flow

Select how users can navigate through the form:

Step sequentially: users must progress through the form in the order the pages are listed.
Step non-sequentially: users can navigate between form pages in any order.

Navigation layout

Select whether the page layout is:

Vertical: form pages display from top to bottom.
Horizontal: form pages display from left to right.

Note: Horizontal navigation layout is unavailable on Nintex Mobile.

Header text

Type text to display at the top of every page in the form.

Toolbar buttons

Button	Tooltip	Description
	Bold	Apply bold formatting to the selected text.
	Italic	Apply italic formatting to the selected text.
	Underline	Apply underline formatting to the selected text.
	Strikethrough	Cross selected text out by drawing a line through the text.
	Subscript	The selected text is written as small text below the line of text.
	Superscript	The selected text is written as small text above the line of text.
Font name	Font Name	Apply a font for the selected text.
	Font Size	Change the font size of the selected text.
	Text Color	Change the color of the selected text.
	Background Color	Apply a background color and highlight the selected text.
	Numbered List	(Available only in larger dialog box) Convert selected text into one or more numbered list items.
	Bulleted List	(Available only in larger dialog box) Convert selected text into one or more bulleted list items.
Format	Paragraph Format	Apply different heading sizes to the selected text: Normal Headings 1 to 6
	Left	Align the selected text to the left.
	Center	Center the selected text.
	Right	Align the selected text to the right.
	Justify	Distribute text evenly between left and right margins of the label control.
	Link	Add a hyperlink to selected text. When you click the Link button, the Rich text editor window presents two additional fields relating to the hyperlink: URL and Text. Type the URL and amend the Text if necessary. Click OK to confirm the hyperlink for the text.
	Unlink	Remove a hyperlink. The unlink button becomes available after you click a hyperlink in the Header text or Rich text editor window.
	Full Screen	Display the field and toolbar buttons in a larger dialog box with additional toolbar buttons available.
	Outdent List Item	(Available only in larger dialog box) Decrease indentation for the selected list items.
	Indent List Item	(Available only in larger dialog box) Increase indentation for the selected list items.
	Insert Horizontal Line	(Available only in larger dialog box) Adds a horizontal line below typed text and adds a new paragraph.
	Table	Opens Table Properties dialog to select properties to add a table.
	Image	Insert a URL to an image you want to use in the text.
	HTML	Converts the selected text into HTML code.

Enabling users to save forms

The Save feature allows form designers to include the Save option in forms so that participants can save their forms and come back to it later. This is useful when filling out large forms.