Rich Text Editing in Forms

1. Overview

Customize the appearance of your text in Forms with our new rich text editing capabilities. Enabling this on your text columns will give you access to formatting options for text previously unavailable in Forms such as:

• Bold, Italic, Underlined text

• Checklists

• Headers

• Code Blocks

• etc.

You have the option to output the data as HTML.

2. Enabling Rich Text Editing

You can enable rich text editing on your Form text columns through the Design Table tab of your form table (Image 1).

• Enable text formatting: Checking this enables the rich text editor in Forms.

• Save text as HTML: If you need the data saved from the rich text editor to be in HTML format, check this box.

• Max Characters: The rich text editor saves data in Cinchy as structured data (or HTML), which is much more verbose than your actual text. You will need to increase this number much higher than you expect (e.g. 10,000 characters).

3. Using the Rich Text Editor

Once you have enabled rich text editing on your text column for your form, you can utilize the capabilities by navigating to your form applet.

You will see all the formatting options available to you in the editor toolbar (Image 2). A form field that does not have rich text enabled appears like the "Plaintext" section below.

4. Examples

The below section outlines some examples of what you can do with the rich text editor.

4.1 Example A

The below example (Image 3) shows using the following rich text capabilities:

• Bulleted Lists

• Bold

• Italics

• Underlined

4.2 Example B

The below example (Image 3) shows using the following rich text capabilities:

• Headings 1, 2, 3

4.3 Example C

The below example (Image 4) shows using the following rich text capabilities:

• Linking

5. Output

As you can see below, the text you enter into the Rich Text Editor is saved as structured data (Image 5), and when the "Save text as HTML" option is checked in your column settings, it is saved as HTML (Image 6).