Add an email field to a form
Use the email field to provide a text box for respondents to enter their email address. For signed-in Warwick members, you can automatically populate the field with their
@warwick.ac.uk
email address.- Go to the form you wish to edit.
- Select Edit > Edit formsbuilder page.
- Under Add a text box, select Email field.
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In the Field name box, type the name you want to use as the column heading for this field in the form submissions table. For example:
Email address
Note: if you intend to use this form for online payments and offer email receipts to customers, useemail
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In the Label box, enter the instructions to show the respondent on the form – for example:
Enter your email address
If you don't specify a Label, the Field name displays next to the box instead.
- Choose a Width of the email box as a percentage of the page width. For example, 100% spans the entire page.
- Optionally, to automatically populate the field for Warwick members who are signed in, expand the Populate with drop-down list and choose email address.
- Choose whether to display the Label above the text box or at the left. The Label displays at the left by default.
- To show the email field only to editors of submissions – and hide it from respondents – select Only visible to editors.
- To make the email field mandatory – the respondent must enter an email address before they can submit the form – select the Required checkbox.
- Optionally, to ask the respondent to enter their email address a second time to minimise mistakes, select Require confirmation. If the email addresses do not match, the respondent is prompted to check their addresses and submit the form again.
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Select Save.