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

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
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Add new page |
Adds a new page to the form. |
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<Page titles> |
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. ![]()
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Title size |
Select the font size of the form page titles:
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Navigation flow |
Select how users can navigate through the form:
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Navigation layout |
Select whether the page layout is:
Note: Horizontal navigation layout is unavailable on Nintex Mobile. |
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Header text
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Type text to display at the top of every page in the form. ![]()
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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.

- In the forms designer, click the Submit button.
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Turn on the Save toggle.
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If you want to change the button label, type a new button name in the Save field.
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Save your changes.
The Action panel is displayed.
The Save button is displayed on the canvas. By default, the button label is set to Save.
For more information on the Save button, see Action panel.
When a workflow is published, participants have the option to fill in part of the form, save it, and come back to continue from where they stopped at a later time.
Note: To return to the saved form, participants can open My Nintex, and then navigate to the Forms > Draft forms section, which displays a list of draft forms. Draft forms are forms, which have been saved but have not been submitted yet.
For more information on draft forms, see Forms.