PlatoForms User Guide
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  • Form Builder

    Creating an Online Form for an Existing PDF

  • Custom Domain

    With Builder you can build three types of forms: online web forms, online PDF forms, and master forms.

  • Master Form Builder

    you will arrive at the Form Builder. On the form Builder, there are three main sections:

Workflow submission

Workflow forms move through multiple steps. On the Workflow tab, view a workflow’s submissions step by step, side by side, and jump straight to editing or continuing a submission. Here, you can:

  • Select a workflow and browse its submissions step by step
  • Choose which fields appear alongside each step’s submissions
  • View the PDF generated for each step
  • Jump to the next step’s form, or edit a submission, from the actions menu

Access Workflow submissions

  1. In the left navigation of the Dashboard, click Submissions.

    Form Submissions page

  2. Click the Workflow tab at the top (between Submissions and Summary).

  3. Use the dropdown in the top left to switch between your workflows.

    Workflow dropdown open, listing multiple workflows to choose from

If a workflow has no completed submissions yet, you’ll see a message like “There are not submissions in this workflow.”

Choose which fields to display

By default, each step shows few or no fields alongside its submissions. Before reviewing submissions, set up which fields you want to see:

  1. Click Edit Display Fields next to the Workflow selector dropdown.

    Click Edit Display Fields button

  2. In the Workflow Forms Displayable Field window, use the Workflow Step dropdown to select the step you want to configure.

    Workflow Forms Displayable Field window with a Workflow Step dropdown and a table of field names with Displayable checkboxes

  3. Check Displayable next to each field you want to show under that step’s submissions.

  4. Click Save.

Note

Displayable fields are set independently per step. Repeat these steps for each step in the workflow you want to configure.

Review submissions by step

Each workflow’s submissions are displayed in columns, one per step (e.g., 1st - Worksheet admin, 2nd - Worksheet Worker.pdf). Each column lists the submissions for that step, along with the field values you made displayable above.

Click the timestamp next to a submission to open its actions menu:

Submission actions menu with Edit Submission, Open PDF, Open Next Step Form, and Go to Form Submissions options

  • Edit Submission — update the submitted data.
  • Open PDF — view the generated PDF for this step.
  • Open Next Step Form — fill out or resubmit the form for the next step in the workflow.
  • Go to Form Submissions — jump to this step’s form in the regular Submissions view.
Note

Open Next Step Form only appears on submissions that aren’t the workflow’s final step — there’s no next step to open from the last one.

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