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More Field Types

More types of fields with richer options must be available.
If Forms is meant to compete with market leaders in this sector, it cannot offer just 4 types of fields it currently offers. See attached screen shots of how many types of field other services are offering.

Also, you need richer options. For example: you cannot offer only one type of date formatting. We use dd/mm/yyyy in Europe. Americans use the mm/dd/yyyy. The form creator must be able to define the desired format.

In general, we need more types of fields and more advanced control options for each type of field.

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      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Would be great if "Export to Excel" did not format all responses as text. If the response entered was a number, it should appear/format in Excel as a number. Users have to convert text to columns to use data and often have to copy from table format to cell format to create formulas.

      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I agree - I would like to see a few fields:
        - Email Address (or at least allow the standard field to have an email address style restriction (example@domain.com)
        - An input grid. Currently you have to have a separate line item for each box but would be nice to have a single question/item with several rows and an input box at the end of the row/question.
        - Date restrictions (i.e. >today, tomorrow, or a specific date)

      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Alan, your example is incorrect. for most of the word that date is the 6th of July 2018.

      • Alan Cossey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Agreed on the date formatting. This is very important indeed. For most of the world 6/7/2018 is 6th June 2018.

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