📝Form & input fields
Create native forms with different input formats
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Add forms in your apps to receive data from users! Use different input types to create native forms in your apps.
Bravo supports the following input types for the forms. See the example design to see how to set them up in the design file.
Single-line text
Create a single-line text input.
The field in your backend should be of type text.
Multi-line text (text area)
Create a multi-line text box.
The field in your backend should be of type text.
Number
Create a numeric input
The field in your backend should be of type interger.
Create a text input in email format
The field in your backend should be of type email or text.
Phone
Create an input for a phone number
The field in your backend should be of type text.
Date
Create an input with a date picker.
This is sent as yyyy-MM-dd format to the backend.
Date & Time
In case you want to send the date as per ISO 8601 (yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'), you can use the following tag (note that the hour will be sent as 00:00:00):
Time
Create an input with a time picker.
This is sent as HH:mm format to the backend.
URL
Create an input for a URL
The field in your backend should be of type text or URL.
Password
Create an input for a password. The characters in the input will be hidden while the user inputs them.
The field in your backend should be of type text or password.
Selector
Create a dropdown selector with different options. You can specify the options in the design file, or obtain them via API request. See this page to see how to set it up.
This is sent as text to the backend.
Image (from phone camera)
Allows to take a picture with the phone camera and upload it in the form. The phone camera is opened when the user presses the area with the input tag.
This is sent as image URL to the backend.
Video (from phone camera)
Allows to record a video with the phone camera and upload it in the form. The phone camera is opened when the user presses the area with the input tag.
This is sent as video URL to the backend.
The maximum video size is 200MB.
File
Allows to upload a file that already exists in the phone storage. The option to select a file is opened when the user presses the area with the input tag.
This is sent as URL to the backend.
Hidden Input
Hidden form field from the user interface but still exists within Bravo. This type of input field can be used to store session identifiers or any other data that needs to be passed along with form submissions but doesn’t need to be visible or editable by the user.
You can easily make an input field required (mandatory for the user to fill in before sending the form), by appending :required at the end of the input tag. For instance, [component:input-text:required].
If a user tries to submit the form without filling in all the required fields in the form (if any), an alert message will be displayed, and the form won't be submitted.
The [component:input-select]and radio button (single-select) component do not support the :required attribute and requires an option selection by default. However, its possible to add an empty option such as "=None" so users can select an empty value.
To create a form in your app, add as many of the inputs above as you wish. Each input type will require a different setup, check out the example design file to see how to create them.
Once you have added all the inputs, surround them with a container. All the form inputs must be inside the same container.
Finally, add a button that will trigger the submit action when pressing it, once the user has filled in the form fields. This button must be inside the form container. To add it, create the button design, and attach the action:submit tag to it.
Also, note that all the form inputs need to be in the same app screen, together with the submit button.
Once the design file with the form is imported into Bravo, an API request needs to be bound to the form and its inputs. There are two different types of requests that can be bound to forms:
A POST request, to create a new record in the database.
A PATCH request, to update an existing record in the database.
Once the API request has been created, the form input fields need to be bound to the UI elements as explained in the following pages:
See the example below to see how to set it up!
