The Form Builder
The builder is where one form is authored. This page is the tour: what each part of the screen is, and what happens to your edits while you work.
Three columns
Section titled “Three columns”- Fields palette on the left: the field types you can add, grouped Basic, Choice, Advanced, and Layout, with a search box above them.
- Canvas in the middle: your form rendered on a sheet, the way a respondent will see it, one card per field. Editing controls appear when you point at a card.
- Field Settings inspector on the right: what the selected block is, and only what it can change, with a sticky Save, Duplicate, and Delete footer and an Unsaved changes chip when you have pending edits.
The top bar
Section titled “The top bar”Across the top: the back arrow to the dashboard, the form name and draft status, the Canvas and Logic Map view toggle, the Accepting responses state pill, undo and redo, the save indicator, the settings gear, Preview form, and Publish. Above the canvas sits the page tab bar.
One form at a time
Section titled “One form at a time”The builder edits one form and has no form picker of its own. Open a form by clicking its row on the dashboard. Opening the Form Builder tab directly, with no form chosen, shows a small placeholder and a Go to Admin Dashboard button. That is expected. The back arrow returns you to the dashboard, saving any pending edit on the way.
The right rail
Section titled “The right rail”With nothing selected on the canvas, the inspector becomes the form’s own rail, carrying Design (with View field mappings under Data), Share (the link, QR code, embed snippet and blueprint download), and, once a form has been published, Versions.
Dev mode
Section titled “Dev mode”A collapsible Dev mode panel sits at the bottom of the builder, on the form you have open. It is a read-only window onto what the builder produced for the current draft, and nothing in it changes the form. Use it when a form renders differently from how you expect. See Dev mode in the builder.
Drafts and autosave
Section titled “Drafts and autosave”Everything you do in the builder runs against the form’s draft and autosaves. Respondents see nothing until you publish. See Publishing a form.