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This tutorial is a step in the Create Your First Adaptive Form series. It is recommended to follow the series in chronological sequence to understand, perform, and demonstrate the complete tutorial use case. |
Adaptive forms are new-generation forms that are dynamic and responsive. You can use Adaptive forms to deliver personalized experiences. You can also integrate adaptive forms with Adobe Analytics for usage statistics and Adobe Campaign for campaign management. For more information about adaptive forms capabilities, see Introduction to authoring adaptive forms.
It is easier to create and manage forms when a proper process is followed. In this article, you learn how to:
- Create an adaptive form that allows a customer to add a shipping address
- Layout fields of an adaptive form to display and accept information from a customer
- Create submit action to send an email containing form content
- Preview and submit an adaptive form
You will have a form similar to the following by end of article:
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Log in to the AEM author instance and navigate to Adobe Experience Manager > Forms > Forms & Documents. The default URL is http://localhost:4502/aem/forms.html/content/dam/formsanddocuments.
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An option to Add Properties appears. The Title and Name fields are mandatory:
- Title: Specify Add new or update shipping address in the Title field. The title field specifies the display name of the form. The title helps you identify the form in the AEM Forms user interface.
- Name: Specify shipping-address-add-update-form in the Name field. The Name field specifies the name of the form. A node with the specified name is created in the repository. As you start typing a title, value for the name field is automatically generated. You can change the suggested value. The name field can include only alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores. All the invalid inputs are replaced with a hyphen.
- Title: Specify Add new or update shipping address in the Title field. The title field specifies the display name of the form. The title helps you identify the form in the AEM Forms user interface.
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Tap Create. An adaptive form is created and a dialog to open the form for editing appears. Tap Open to open the newly created form in a new tab. The form opens for editing. It also displays the sidebar to customize the newly created form according to the needs.
For information about adaptive form authoring interface and available components, see Introduction to authoring adaptive forms.
AEM Forms provides many components to display information on an adaptive form. Header and Footer components help provide a consistent look and feel to a form. A header typically includes the logo of a corporation, the title of the form, and summary. A footer typically includes copyright information and links to other pages.
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Tap Image. The toolbar appears. Tap
. The properties browser opens on the left of the screen. Browse and upload the logo image. Tap
. The image appears on the header.
Atsisiųsti failąYou can tap Get file to download the logo used in this article if you don't have one.
Components are building blocks of an adaptive form. AEM Forms provides many components to capture and display information in an adaptive form. You can drag the components from to a form. To learn about available components and corresponding functionality, see Introduction to authoring adaptive forms.
A submit action is triggered when a user taps the Submit button on an adaptive form. You can use a submit action to save form data to the local repository, send form data to a REST endpoint, send form data as an email, and more. Adaptive forms provides a few more out-of-the-box submit actions. For detailed information, see Configuring the Submit action.
Using the following steps, you can configure email submit action and demo submit action of the form:
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Configure the email server. For details, see Configuring Email Notification.
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Property Value From donotreply@weretail.com To ${customer_Email}
Subject Acknowledgement: You have added shipping address on We.Retail website. Email Template Hi ${customer_Name},
The following address is added as the shipping address for your account:
${customer_Name},
${customer_Shipping_Address},
${customer_State},
${customer_ZIPCode}Regards,
We.RetailInclude attachments Enabled Your form is ready. Now, you can preview the form and test the functionality. If you have used the name mentioned the tutorial and accessing the form on the machine running AEM Forms server, then the form is available at http://localhost:4502/editor.html/content/forms/af/shipping-address-add-update-form.html.
You can use the Preview option to evaluate appearance and behavior of a form. You can submit a form in preview mode and also check validations applied on a form. For example, if an error is displayed when a mandatory field is left empty.
Adaptive forms also provide an option to Emulate experience of a form for various devices. For example, iPhone, iPad, and Desktop. You can use both Preview and Emulator options in conjunction with each other to preview a form for devices of different screen sizes.
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Tap the Preview option on the right side of the form editor. The form opens in the preview mode. If you have used the name mentioned the tutorial, then preview URL of the form is http://localhost:4502/content/dam/formsanddocuments/shipping-address-add-update-form/jcr:content?wcmmode=disabled
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Fill out fields of the form and tap Submit. The form is submitted and you are redirected to default Thank You page. You can also specify a custom thank you page. For details, see Configuring redirect page.
The adaptive form to add an address is ready. If you have used the name mentioned the tutorial and accessing the form on the machine running AEM Forms server, then the form is available at http://localhost:4502/editor.html/content/forms/af/shipping-address-add-update-form.html.