Add Ability to Link Form Field Blocks in School Forms to Custom Fields in User Contact Cards

As we add additional custom publish fields and admin-only fields, we need a way for parents and students to provide information that is then added to these custom fields.  At the moment we collect this information by using the "Form Field" block to create custom questions, export form submissions, and then manually enter this back into their Contact Cards.

Given that we do some setup on the backend in order to properly setup our custom publishable and admin-only fields to be text fields or drop-down menus, there has to be some way to pull these into our forms for users to populate themselves.

I envision either a new "Custom Contact Card Field" block or an enhancement of the current "Form Field" block that allows us to link to already created publishable or admin-only fields.

This would behave similarly to the Resource Board content blocks which when inserted onto a board provides a searchable dropdown list to define what content is displayed in the block.

  • Alex Orlebeke
  • Aug 24 2018
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  • Alex Orlebeke commented
    May 01, 2019 15:34

    Just updating this, while we can complete a bulk import to update Custom Publishable Fields, we would have to export the form responses, remove any extraneous data, and then process the import.  Doable, but not ideal & as streamlined as it could be.