Form Component

Learn how to use the Budibase form component.

The Form component is the top level component of forms. All field groups and fields must be placed inside a form, and they won't work outside it.

A typical Budibase form

Form Settings

Forms only have a few simple settings.

Setting	Required	Description
Name	Yes	The name of the form component
Schema	No	The schema for the form
Theme	No	The theme for the form
Size	No	The size theme for the form
Disabled	No	Whether the form is disabled (noneditable) or not

Form Schemas

Forms have a Schema setting which is optional. The schema for a form can be a table, view, relationship, query or "custom". A custom schema means that there is no backing data source schema.

Choosing a form schema has the following advantages:

• When adding fields, field names can be chosen from a dropdown rather than being typed

• Field validation is automatically added to match the schema

• If you want to create rows in a table using your form data, you'll need to choose the correct schema for the table you'll be saving your data to

• Fields will be able to automatically prevent you entering an illegal field name for a certain data type

• Form components can be automatically generated to match the schema