Easy and Quick way to add fields (more than 100) to forms.

[DubeyN]

Hi,

I am working on creating new application. I am building a form and need to add around 100 fields to the form. I know the way to create and add fields to form. But I am looking for a easy way to create more than 100 fields in the form. Is there is any option to create a excel and upload the fields to the form.

It will take around 3-4 hours to create 100 fields to the form, but if there is any way to upload all fields to the form. It will save allot of time to build application.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
ND

[DubeyN]

What is the maximum number of field SN suggest in a form? And even if we need to add 30 fields to the form, is there is an easy way to just upload it rather than manually create each fields.

[Mark Stanger]

I don't think there's a maximum recommended number but I've seen forms with 50+ fields and it's a mess that takes a very long time to load. I'm also not aware of any way to create fields en-masse other than the suggestion offered here.

[HugoFirst]

Maybe it's time to think inside the box....

The text input box that is. I've used a text box to hold multiple items which are important to have, but which
do not require slicing and dicing as regular variables allow.

For example, you could provide a text box with the default value of:

Label_for_field_1:
Label_for_field_2:
Label_for_field_3:
.
.
.
Label_for_field_n:


The user could see this labels as prompts and key in their information on each line.

Now 100 line item variables might be a bit much for one text box, so perhaps you could group them into a couple of text boxes by some shared attribue such as a text box for each type of item involved in the request. YOu might have 20 variables about a person, followed by 30 items about an organziation, followed by 50 items of information about an order.

This would yield 3 text boxes labelled:

Personel Information

Organization Information

Item Ordered Information

Does this help?

[taarik_rahaman]

Hi,

Were you ever able to get this import to work?   I've tested a little and what I am finding is that upon EasyImport of the fields into , the table and type values are ignored...in the import set itself, before even being transformed.

Also, it looks like the label needs to be imported manually (into ).

UPDATE:   Using the traditional import did bring in the table name.   However, the field type still had to be set manually...little bit of a bummer...but definitely gets us closer.   It seems that the field is actually created when the Type value is set.