The Formsite API lets form owners access the form items, Results Table, and individual results for custom and powerful workflows. For users who don’t regularly work with APIs, finding resources with relevant examples can make the challenge easier.

API stands for Application Programming Interface and is one way for software to pass data to other software. APIs provide a secure way for applications to work with each other and deliver information requested without user intervention.

Formsite’s API allows form owners read-only access to their account data for forms and results. Some example uses include:

• Custom dashboard showing result answers for one or more forms
• Report automation for creating charts and tables containing form results
• Generating documents with result data
• Automated data backups for archival purposes

Formsite's online form templates area keeps growing with new templates of all kinds. Recent additions include job posting templates, appointment form templates, NDA template, and more. The job posting templates and other HR forms include:

• Job Posting form
• Employee Report form
• Work Permit application
• Non-disclosure Agreement (NDA)
• Online Interview questionnaire

Formsite’s online form builder lets form owners create online forms and style virtually every component. The form’s Style page contains built-in themes, customization options, and advanced access to the CSS code. The Style -> Customization area now contains a new search field allowing for a faster way to locate the settings you need.

The most common parts that affect how a form looks are:

• Font family, size, and color
• Background colors and/or images
• Border sizes, rounding, and color
• Spacing between items (margin and padding)

Formsite forms refer to conditional logic as Rules and they can apply to form items, pages, and Notifications. The Rules page lets form owners set conditions for showing and hiding items in the form, allowing for more usable forms. A consistent request has been to design a way to copy Item Rules from one item to another, which is now available.

Generating reports showing the answers to online forms is a popular request. Many organizations have a need for sharing data with others in a portable format. Our normal export format as an Excel file works the majority of the time. Showing the data itself isn’t as easy to comprehend as a chart, and sometimes only specific answers are preferred instead of the entire contents. Regardless of the reason, sometimes report documents are needed.

Options for creating documents from results depend on the format and scope of the results. For example, should the report show results within a time frame or every result? Should the results appear as a chart or as text? Use this article as a reference for creating your report documents.

Net Promoter Score® (or NPS®) shows how customers view a company or service. The NPS survey collects customer scores and helps to evaluate customer satisfaction. Companies all over the world use the Net Promoter Score to gauge their success with serving customers.

Conducting a Net Promoter Score survey needs three parts:

1. The survey collects customer feedback for the parts you want to evaluate.
2. Scores get categorized into one of three categories.
3. Each category gets calculated to show the current score.

After the calculation, the end result is a number representing the current Net Promoter Score.

QR codes serve as printable bookmarks to web pages, among other things. With the no-contact pandemic culture, places like restaurants use QR codes for fast access to menus, payments, and more. These codes have lots of potential for form owners for lead generation and easy user experience enhancements.

Formsite’s online form builder lets form owners build forms from scratch or start with a template. For forms containing unfamiliar questions or topics, templates are a great way to get started. The recent COVID-19 recommendations include completing questionnaires and check-ins for people at risk. These forms are available to copy under the Covid templates category in the templates area.

The Covid templates include:

• Work from home survey
• Daily health check
• Pre-vaccination checklist
• Refusal to vaccinate
• Covid donation form

Formsite online form builder gives form owners over 50 different item types to collect responses and format the form. Adding the Page Break item gives the ability to make multi-page forms, and using multiple pages allows for other enhancements. One such feature is the form Header and Footer, which appears on every page of the form.

Using the form Header and Footer, form owners add content that appears on every page to make branding more consistent. Uses also include support for the repeating page rule and adding navigation links to other forms and/or pages on your site.

Sending email after receiving new form results is possibly the most-used feature at Formsite. Many form owners want to send an email as either a receipt or to notify one or more people that a new result exists. HTML email Notifications let form owners add styling to the messages to align with branding rules, increase readability, and create better emails.

Unfortunately, email works on systems different than web pages so there isn’t as much support for more powerful HTML features. Also, the software used to view email needs to support a much wider range of devices. For example, it’s possible to send email to fax machines and text devices, which would not be able to display any colors or images.