The Approval form designer is used to create different type of approval forms with drag-N-drop controls. The Yeeflow form designer allows you to build your form structure, design the look and feel, add controls, interactions, animations, and custom code to create fully functioning approval forms.
In the Designer you can visually manipulate form content, set CSS properties, and create interactions without writing code.
Accessing the Designer
To open the approval form designer, firstly access one of the existing approval form, and click the "Edit in designer" button from the right of the form title bar.
Add controls panel
This opens the Add panel from where you can add controls from the Controls panel
There are different type of controls in the controls panel, which are grouped based on categories:
Basic fields: Here includes all the basic field controls, lick text box, number, dropdown etc. Which basic field controls, you can design most of the forms.
Advanced fields: Includes field controls for special business needs, like Lookup, organization, signature etc.
General: Includes general form layout related controls, which can be used to create well-designed form styles.
Advanced: Includes advanced controls which gives you more powerfully layouts and elements, and presenting data from data list with data table, gallery and Gantt chats etc.
Page settings
Click Page from the add controls panel to switch to the Page settings tab.
Background & Content Area
Set the background color of this form, and the content area style here. Please refer Page Background and Content Area Styles to learn more details.
Appearance
Set the default title-field alignment:
Horizontal: Set the title display on the left of the field control by default.
Vertical: Set the title display on the top of the field control by default.
Pro Tip
You can change the title-field alignment for each different field control from the control's properties settings panel.
Action
Bind pre-defined actions when form on load, on submit (submission form), Approval/Complete (Task form), or on reject (Task form). Learn more about how to create actions, please refer:
How to define and use actions
Custom CSS
Add custom CSS which will be used on this form. Learn more about custom CSS, please refer: Custom CSS
Validation
A quick one step settings to make all the field controls on the form to be editable or read only.
The bottom navigation bar
The bottom navigation bar shows you the options to open navigator, or preview your design.
Navigator
Shows the hierarchy of every element on the page you are currently on. Here, you can visually interact with these elements. Learn more about the Navigator.
Preview
Toggles between the preview and design mode of the Designer, allowing you to see how your form will look when published.
Show / Hide the Controls Panel
When using the editor, the default view pins the controls panel to the left side of the screen. It’s useful for when you’re designing, but not so much when you want to preview how everything looks on the page.
The Canvas
The major area in the Designer is the Canvas. It's where you can interact with the form in real-time. You can select elements, move them around, and edit content right on the page. Learn more about the Canvas.
The top bar
The top bar provides another set of view settings as well as some useful tools to edit the form properties, variables, actions etc. Starting from the left-hand side, right next to the "Add controls" button, and moving to the right, you have the following set of tools:
Page indicator
Shows which page you are currently on. Click the "Rename" button to change the page's name, click the "Copy" button to make a new copy of the current page.
Pro Tip
Select the down icon after the page's name to switch to another form from the dropdown list.
Breakpoints buttons
Located in the middle of the top bar, these icons allow you to switch between different breakpoints to see and edit the design of your form on these breakpoints.
Operations
Variables: Manage all variables of this approval form.
Actions: Define and manage actions
Save: Click to save changes of this form.
