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The ITAM Admin Portal Form Builder has an extensive array of Field Types designed to help the Administrative User you design a form that captures the data their your organization needs in the most efficient and effective way possible. To get the most out of the effort put into building forms, it is important to understand the various types of fields, what their purpose is, and what options they provide to fine tune their use.

The Form Builder comes with 22 different field types to assist the Administrative User you in designing a form that will best meet their oversight your needs. Some of the fields exist to provide information to the user, either about the form or about the process. Others exist to help manage and control the flow of the form. Many exist to capture and validate a specific type of data and some include the ability to weight the answers to simplify compliance validation.

On this page of the Admin Guide we will cover the various field types and their intended use. On a subsequent page we will discuss the Property Types which are used to configure each field.

Shared Features

Many, and in some cases all, fields share some features in common. Many fields have the same types of properties to configure their use. The different Property Types are described on the Form Field Properties page.

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Data Entry Fields

Data Entry fields are fields intended to capture user data. We have divided these into two different types, Simple and Complex. Simple Data fields are meant to capture small uniform types of information like text or a number. Complex Data fields capture data with more structure like multiple choice or multiple line data.

Simple Data

Single Line Text

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This field is a great choice when you want to include the acquisition of request a date from your respondent.

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This field is a great choice when you want to allow the form respondent the ability to upload files into ITAM.

Complex Data

Address

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This field is a great choice when you want to include the collection of address information.

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This field is a great choice when you want to present a variety of media selections such as MP4 videos, external URL-based links to video content, MP3 audio content, and image files such as PNG, JPG, and GIF files. Display attributes are automatically scaled to the form's width but a pop-up window feature allows for full screen viewing too. Display training content, advertisements, instructional, and informational content, or anything relevant to your current module's form content for a rich multimedia experience.

Form Control Fields

Form Control Fields allow the flow of a form to be broken up in different ways.

Section Break

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This field is a great choice when you want to divide your form up into sections that appear all on the same page. Options to include preformatted text is present. A popular use of this field is for narratives and informational sections in a form making it more descriptive and meaningful to your respondents.

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Any form that is connected by a cascade field will independently update data when a user enters information and in addition to the separate form data set, the updates flow upwards to the top-level cascade form data set. Bi-directional data management is possible with the top-level collation of all separate form data into one unified experience and report output.

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In this section we covered the high-level aspects of each field type. In the next section we’ll talk about the various properties which can be set on a field to configure them in the way you need.

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