Adobe Experience Manager Forms: Adaptive Forms
In our previous posts on Adobe Experience Manager forms, we’ve gone over the architecture and form reusability. However, we haven’t covered a key element of Adobe Experience Manager Forms, adaptive forms. Adaptive forms are the backbone of Adobe Experience Manager forms. They allow a user to create their own custom forms for features such as surveys, feedback and contact forms.
Benefits of Adaptive Forms:
- Responsive OOTB
- Allow you to break large forms into logical sections
- Easy to author; offers a variety of OOTB form functions
- Can be based on Schema or Form template as well as providing a variety of OOTB templates
- Can be integrated with services such as e-sign and Adobe reader extensions
- Ability to export forms to other mediums such as a PDF or a JPEG
Now that we’ve listed some of the benefits of adaptive forms, let's create a new one and then edit it so you can learn how to use them.
Creating an Adaptive Form:
NOTE: As of Adobe Experience Manager 6.0, the forms module comes installed out of the box. If you don’t have it installed you can download it from the Adobe site.
- Path: /aem/forms.html/content/dam/formsanddocuments
- Click the “+ create” button on the top toolbar
- There should be an option to create an “adaptive form”
NOTE: As of Adobe Experience Manager 6.0, the forms module comes installed out of the box. If you don’t have it installed you can download it from the Adobe site.
Editing a Form:
Once you have created a form there are a variety of ways you can edit the form:
- View Properties = Here you can edit the title, description and any tags related to the form you just created
- Form Model = Allows a user to select from form templates or an XML schema
- Advanced = Allows you to set publish on and off times
Adaptive forms are just one of the ways that Adobe Experience Manager is bringing innovative and useful concepts to developers.
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