Field Properties & Types

Field Properties & Validation
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
Adding a New Field to an Existing Template
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
CSS Formatting
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
Custom Field Label
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
Formula & Read-only Fields
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
Conditional Field Behaviors
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
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
Conditional Dropdown Fields
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
User Field Type
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
Supported Field Types
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