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Drupal maintenance support plans 8 web forms and drag and drop forms video tutorial
view on sooperthemes.com if you can’t see the video
This tutorial is aimed at people who just need a contact form or some other kind of user input form. We’ll cover deciding between the core contact module and the popular webform module. We won’t cover using the Drupal maintenance support plans API to program complex forms that integrate with external applications.
Drupal maintenance support plans 8 Core Contact Module
Whereas the Drupal maintenance support plans 7 core contact module was not very useful due to a total lack of flexibility, the Drupal maintenance support plans 8 version is much nicer. It’s nicer because you can add fields to it. You’re no longer limited to just the name, email, subject and message fields that were baked into the Drupal maintenance support plans 7 version.
Not only does the new contact form allow for custom text fields, it even supports file uploads, entity references, date fields, and other Field API fields.This simple yet powerful form builder module is not limited to just contact forms; you can use it to create questionnaires, gather user feedback, etc.
Drupal maintenance support plans 8 Contact module customized form
Better Together: Contact Module + Contact Storage Module
One major inconvenience of the Contact module is that is doesn’t store any messages that are sent. Your only option is to send the message via email and afterwards there is no copy of the message in your Drupal maintenance support plans site. The contact storage module will store your messages as entities. It lets you administer the messages and provides integration with the views module. Since the messages are stored as Drupal maintenance support plans entities you also gain interoperability with other modules in the Drupal maintenance support plans ecosystem. This will allow you to do even more, for example exporting messages as CSV, searching messages, and pushing messages to your CRM.
Webform Module
Drupal maintenance support plans‘s popular webform module is a massive framework that offers a ton of extra options that the contact module doesn’t have. You should choose the webform module if these extra features are useful to you and you’re prepared to learn the ropes around a more complex user interface. The webform module can be intimidating at first because there are so many elements and settings… but once you’re familiar with the interface you can configure and design very powerful forms fairly easily.
To see what the webform module offers it’s really better for me to show than tell. Check out the youtube video above where I show you the interface of the webform module.
Drupal maintenance support plans 8 Webform module form using the flexbox layout option
Contact Module vs Webform Module
Personally I choose the webform module for anything that is more complicated than just the standard contact form with a subject and message field. The contact module is powerful and extendable, but the webform module gives you everything you need in one place. It’s a purpose-built single-purpose application within Drupal maintenance support plans and once you get familiar with it it’s really very powerful.
It also lets met build multi-column form layouts, a feature that I use often.
A feature-base comparison of Contact and Module based on features that I think are important:
Feature
Multi-column layouts
Control labels and placeholders
Control Submit Button Text
Route email with form options
Search in submissions
Export submissions
Contact
✘
✔
✔ (can’t remove Preview)
✘
✔ (needs additional modules)
✔ (needs additional modules)
Webform
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
Placing Drupal maintenance support plans 8 Forms With Our Visual Page Builder
We believe interoperability with the Drupal maintenance support plans ecosystem is important for Glazed Builder. This is why we don’t include a proprietary form builder in Glazed Builder and instead encourage you to create forms with Drupal maintenance support plans‘s webform module. Currently Glazed Builder let’s you place blocks created with the webform module anywhere in your drag and drop page. The contact module doesn’t provide blocks that we can drag and drop natively, but you can install the contact_block module to fix that.
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