Ability to move/copy fields between sections in a School Form
The ability to move the positioning of a field from one section to another within the form would be very useful. Or to copy a section of repeatable fields to avoid recreating fields in a second section.
As someone new to the On School Forms, I am still deciding the best way to present the fields for data entry. In NetCommunity there was logic that allowed you to hide or display fields or sections based upon a Boolean condition. Having to put all the options out there for parents and hope they read the instructions to only choose the desired fields is asking a bit much. For example, on a Transportation (Bussing) request form, a parent may choose a full year of bussing or choose 1 - 3 trimesters of transportation (following the sport seasons). I have to put all the options out there for each and every possible route and for every possible combination of one way and two way transportation. It is repetitive to have to key those options for each route when the only thing that changes is the checklist price and the name of the route. And once they are created, if you rethink your design and want to move those fields between sections, you must rekey them in the new section.
Simple editing features like this would make it much nicer.
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Peggy Lehman
- Feb 13 2017
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For what it is worth, being able to re-purpose rather than re-create Form Fields is HUGE. For example, we want to allow immediate family members to select their t-shirt size on a request form. Since the forms don't allow for "add another person" option, we have to build fields for all possible entries: students, parents, siblings. We don't have any families with more than 3 students enrolled, so we have 3 students listed, we limit parent t-shirts to 2 per family- and then we offer up to 4 sibling t-shirts. We have 15 sizes of shirts. We have to build the select a size field 7 times. That is a huge waste of time. BUT if you are working on fixing things, please pay attention to adding an address field for emergency contacts before this one. We are using a work around that is messy for that one - if we do not collect a physical address for an emergency contact, we can lose our licensing as a child care provider in the state of Texas. We are not the only state with this requirement.