AEM Forms: Adaptive Forms

In our previous posts on AEM forms, we’ve gone over the architecture and form reusability. However, we haven’t covered a key element of AEM Forms, adaptive forms. Adaptive forms are the backbone of AEM forms. They allow a user to create their own custom forms for features such as surveys, feedback and contact forms.

Benefits of Adaptive Forms:

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 AEM 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.

  1. Path: /aem/forms.html/content/dam/formsanddocuments
  2. Click the “+ create” button on the top toolbar
  3. There should be an option to create an “adaptive form”

NOTE: As of AEM 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:

  1. View Properties = Here you can edit the title, description and any tags related to the form you just created
  2. Form Model = Allows a user to select from form templates or an XML schema
  3. Advanced = Allows you to set publish on and off times

Adaptive forms are just one of the ways that AEM is bringing innovative and useful concepts to developers.

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