Field Properties & Types
Field Properties can be accessed by Right Clicking on a field you’ve placed on the form. From here you can use CSS Code to format the field, establish field...
Mon, 18 Nov, 2024 at 12:20 PM
If while digitizing a form that you need one or more new fields or other field/table schema changes in your target Quickbase, you can add them in Quickbase,...
Tue, 12 Apr, 2022 at 1:03 PM
There is form-level (all fields on a form) field formatting control with CSS, and individual-field formatting. Here is an example of form-level field contr...
Fri, 12 Jul, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Form Engine gives you the option to create a custom label for a field instead of using the field name. This feature works similar to Quickbase’s “Alternate ...
Tue, 12 Apr, 2022 at 12:58 PM
Read-only and Formula Fields on Forms Formula fields, lookup fields and system fields like Date Created will display as read-only, and can be used on forms...
Mon, 31 Jan, 2022 at 11:57 AM
Since the Quickbase API won’t let us pull native Form Rules into our forms, we built our easy-to-use version into the Form Engine. To use it click on any fi...
Fri, 1 Dec, 2023 at 7:59 AM
Radio buttons are multi-choice fields in Quickbase that are displayed as round checkboxes, where the user can only choose 1 option. For multiple choice fie...
Tue, 7 Dec, 2021 at 1:23 PM
We’ve created a version of this in the Form Engine to replicate Quickbase native functionality, because the QB API doesn’t support pulling the native functi...
Wed, 20 Oct, 2021 at 7:58 PM
Currently, User Fields can only be used in certain ways on forms. They will not work in Add or Edit Record mode, meaning that form completers will not be ab...
Fri, 18 Feb, 2022 at 11:51 AM
Because of some technical compatibility issues, you can use almost all Quickbase field types in Form Engine forms, but not all. Here are the supported fiel...
Wed, 17 Apr, 2024 at 10:55 AM