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How do I personalise Forms with placeholders?

Learn how you can use placeholders to make your Forms feel even more personal and engaging.

Written by Brendan Kilfoil

Have you ever wanted your forms to feel more like a conversation and less like an interrogation? With the magic of placeholders, your forms become dynamic, personal, and engaging.

What exactly is a placeholder?

A placeholder is some specially-formatted text you add to your Form using the Editor. When the Form is filled out, the placeholder magically transforms to the value the placeholder represents. Still confused?

Here's a screen that comes after the screen requesting the patient's name in a Form:

Now here's what it looks like during Form filling:

Adding a placeholder to a Form

Adding a placeholder is done while adding text β€” just type the @ symbol. A list of fields will pop up which you can use in that particular place in the Form. Only fields defined above / prior / earlier to the placeholder can be used.

☝️ If the @ symbol isn't triggering the drop down, make sure there's a space before the @ symbol.

Here's the video version:

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