Determining the Fieldtype
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When you create a form field you have to specify what type of field you want to add to the form.
The possible types of fields in a form are
- Name: A simple static text on the form, for example as intertitles.
- Text: A short (one-line) text input
- Long Text: A long (multi-line) text input
- Number: A number with decimals
- Integer: A number formatted as integer
- Time: A time in the format HH:MM
- Date: A date
- Time and Date: Date and time
- Single selection: A checkbox as a radio-button, for example for "yes/no" entries
- Multiple selection: Non-exclusive selection of multiple options
- Exclusive Multiple selection: Exclusive selection of multiple options
- Category: The illustration of a hierarchy
- Frame: A framework to group optically multiple fields
- Button: A button to trigger actions
- Table: In order to visualize a set of objects
- Webview: A HTML5-compatible field to display HTML
- Signature: A signature field