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.
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
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