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Field settings

Kissflow plans:
 
โœ“ Basic โœ“ Enterprise

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.

The field ID is a unique string mapped to the field automatically. You'll need it when 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 creating the field, but you cannot change it after publishing the form. 
  • Field IDs cannot have spaces. Underscores will be added automatically if you press the spacebar. 
  • There are a few restricted names like Status that you cannot use as the field ID.

Required

When you mark a field as required by enabling the Required? toggle, it must have a value at the first step where it becomes editable.

For example, if a field is required but hidden in the first two steps and only becomes editable in the third, the error message will appear at the third step if the field is left empty.

Note:

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

Adding conditions to required fields

You can mark a field as required based on specific conditions using values entered in other fields.

To set this up:

  1. Turn on the Required? toggle for the field.

  2. Click the + icon next to Mark as required when. The Add conditions popup will appear.

  3. Add the conditions that should trigger the requirement.

    • You can set multiple conditions and choose whether all must match (Match all) or any one (Match any).

  4. Click Done to apply the condition.

For example, you can configure the Attach bill field to be required only when the Reimbursement amount is greater than $1000. This helps keep the form clean for smaller transactions while enforcing data collection for larger ones.

Adding more conditions

To add more conditions at any time, go to the fieldโ€™s settings. Below the list of existing conditions, click + Add a condition. The Add conditions popup will appear, where you can define the required conditions.

Removing a condition

To remove a condition, simply click the remove (-) icon next to the applied condition.

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.

 

Y

N

Set the min and max range and intervals

User

User

Select a user in your system.

 

 

N

N

More here

Checklist

List

Check off items.

 

N

N

Cannot be made required

Attachment

Attachment

Attach files.

 

N

N

Maximum size is 100 MB

Signature

Image

Draw your signature.

 

N

N

More here

Lookup

Reference

Select items found in other flows.

 

N

N

More here

Remote lookup

Text or JSON

Retrieve real-time data from a third-party system.

 

N

N

More here

Rich text

None

Add static formatted text and media to your form.

 

N

N

More here

Aggregation

Text or Number

Aggregate table data.

 

N

N

More here

Sequence number

Text

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

 

N

Y

More here