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Field settings

You can select the field in the editor, access its settings by clicking the Gear icon () or modify its settings directly from the Field properties panel.

Name and Field ID

Enter the name of the field under Name. It is a mandatory field. The field type is the field's data type. It denotes the nature of the data that's stored in the field. Learn more about field types here.

Field ID is a unique string mapped to the field automatically. You'll need the field ID while creating expressions

  • Kissflow will automatically assign a field ID that is identical or similar to the field name. 
  • You can customize the field ID when you first create the field, but you cannot change it after publishing the form. 
  • Field IDs cannot have spaces. Underscores will be added automatically. 
  • There are a few restricted names like β€œStatus” that you cannot use as the field ID.

Required

If you mark a field as required, it must have a value at the first step at which it is editable. For example, if you mark a field as required, but it is hidden for the first two steps, and editable on the third, then it will only generate an error message on the third step.

Required fields will have a small red asterisk beside them on the live form.

 

Help text

Help text appears underneath the field and helps users know what to enter. 

 

Default value

This is a placeholder value that displays in the field before a user enters any information. 

Computed field

Some fields allow you to use an expression to load data onto the field. Learn more about expressions

Field type

There are 20 different types of fields to use on your form. Each field is strongly associated with a certain data type. The data type is very important if you are going to use it in any expression. The field type also determines if you can have a default value, and what validations and appearance options you have.  

Name

Data type

Usage

Example

Default value?

Expressions?

More info

Text

Text

Enter a short amount of data on a single line

Y

Y

More here

Text area

Text

Enter a larger amount of formattable data on multiple lines

N

N

More here

Email

Text

Collects valid email addresses

Y

N

More here

Number

Number

Enter only numbers

Y

Y

Uses commas for thousands, millions

Configure the number of decimal places to display

Currency

Number

Enter a number displayed as currency

Y

Y

Choose which currencies to accept

Date

Date

Pick a date

Y

Y

Formatted based on your locale

Date & Time

Date

Pick a date and time

Y

Y

Based on your timezone

Yes/ No

Boolean

Choose yes or no

Y

N

More here

Image

None

Upload and view an image

N

N

More here

Rating

Number

Give a rating of 1-5 stars

Y

N

More here

Dropdown

Text

Select one option from a list

Y

N

More here

Checkbox/Multi-select checkbox

List

Select more than one option from a list

N

N

Checkbox/ Multi-select checkbox

Slider

Number

Select a number on a slider

<Image>

Y

N

Set the min and max range and intervals

User

User

Select a user in your system

<Image>

N

N

More here

Checklist

List

Check off items

<Image>

N

N

Cannot be made required

Attachment

Attachment

Attach files

<Image>

N

N

Maximum size is 100 MB

Signature

Image

Draw your signature

<Image>

N

N

More here

Lookup

Reference

Select items found in other flows

<Image>

N

N

More here

Remote lookup

Text or JSON

Retrieve realtime data from a 3rd party system

<Image>

N

N

More here

Rich text

None

Add static formatted text and media to your form

<Image>

N

N

More here

Aggregation

Text or Number

Aggregate table data

<Image>

N

N

More here

Sequence number

Text

Add a recurring serial or sequence number to each item in your process

<Image>

N

Y

More here