Additional Input Field Options

When you click on the [8] button in the previous figure, a panel appears on the right allowing you to specify additional parameters for the field. These parameters depend in part on the type of field they relate to.

For example, for a text-type field, the panel is presented as follows:

The label has been carried over from your previous input. The name of the field is, by default, equal to the label or if the label is very long, to the first characters of the label.

The distinction is as follows:

• The label is what will be displayed just above the input field to explain to the user what is expected.
• The name of the field is what will identify the field in the input retrieval.

The two can be equal when the label is short.

You can indicate whether the input for this field is mandatory or not.

The user data option deserves further explanation. In the data retrieval, fields that have been marked as user data will be presented inline, to the left of the tables, like the first name and last name, meaning that these are data considered to contribute to identifying the user. We will see later that data collection forms can be used in the case of public questionnaires, where the user's first and last names are not known.

The following image corresponds to the parameters of a selector type field:

You will notice a new parameter titled Choices, which allows you to define the options of the selector in the form of a series of words separated by commas.

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