Web Forms
Hosted forms, one question at a time, designed down to the color, font and logo. A submission can start an agreement.
A web form is a hosted questionnaire: a link people open, questions they answer one at a time, and responses you read and export. A submission can also start an agreement from one of your templates.
Building a form
New form opens the studio straight away. On the left are the form's screens, in the middle is a live preview, and on the right are the settings for whatever you selected. Every change shows in the preview as you make it. Undo and redo cover every edit.
- Questions. Short and long text, email, phone, number, currency, date, single and multiple choice, dropdown, checkbox, and file upload. Each one is required or optional, with its own help text, placeholder and an optional picture.
- File uploads. People drop, choose or paste up to 10 files on a file question, 25 MB each: PDF, Word, sheets, images and text. Each file lands in your library when they submit.
- Conditional logic. Show a question only when an earlier answer equals, doesn't equal, is empty or is filled in.
- Welcome screen. An optional first screen with your title, a short message, a button label, and the estimated time or question count.
- End screen. What people see after they submit: your title, message, and a button that can link to any https page.
- Agreement. Choose a template and every submission starts an agreement from it.
Designing it
Open Design to make the form look like yours.
- Themes. Start from a complete look in one click, then change anything.
- Colors. Accent, background, questions, answers, button and button text. Contrast is checked as you pick.
- Fonts. A heading font and a body font from six families, including a rounded, a serif and a handwritten one.
- Shape. Square, soft, round or pill corners for fields, choices and buttons.
- Logo and background. Upload a logo and pick its size, or show your workspace name as text. Add a background image as a full cover or a split layout, and set how much it dims.
- Layout. Question size, left or centered alignment, numbered questions, and a progress style (segments, bar, count, or none).
- Language. Follow the visitor's language, or fix the form to English or Arabic. Arabic forms read right to left.
Sharing it
Publish gives the form its public link on your Docshark domain. Respondents need no account: they open it, answer, and submit, on any screen size. Pause stops it taking responses without touching what you collected, and Resume opens it again.
Responses
Open Responses from the form card or the studio.
- Every submission, newest first, with when it arrived. Select one to read every answer in order, and move through them with the arrow keys.
- Files people sent are listed under their question; open any of them in a new tab.
- Export CSV downloads the responses as a spreadsheet, one column per question.
- The form card shows how many responses arrived and when the latest one came in.
- Every submission also sends the
FORM_SUBMITTEDevent to your webhooks, with the answers, including each file's name, size and library document id.
Forms vs Power Forms
- A web form collects data. Its job is the answers.
- A Power Form collects signatures. Its job is completed envelopes, each carrying form data into a template.
When the deliverable is "a signed document with their details inside," use a Power Form. When it is "their answers," use a web form.