Formulaire, the premium form builder

clarkwinkelmann

Price: 5 USD/month or 50 USD/year
Bundled translations: English and French
Flarum compatibility: beta 15+
See and purchase on Extiverse

Full documentation at https://kilowhat.net/flarum/extensions/formulaire

Formulaire is a premium extension bringing an advanced form builder to Flarum.

Multiple form types are included:

Standalone

Similar to Google Forms.

These forms are not linked to other flarum resources and you can control who is allowed to create or fill them.
The author of submissions is recorded for logged in users.
You can customize max submissions and configure email notifications.

Example use cases: contact form, survey, event registration, ...

Planned features: submission limit per user, anonymous submissions, editable submissions for guests.

User profile

Each user profile form becomes a new page under a user profile.

You can customize who can read and edit forms separately, including setting a different value for own users vs other users.

Each form can be configured so it only appears on profiles of a particular user group.

Profile forms can also be added to the Flarum Sign Up page and can be made required for registration.

This enables a wide range of public and private profile use cases.

Example use cases: private contact info, payment details, curriculum vitae, ...

Planned features: user card fields.

Similar to the FriendsOfFlarum Masquerade open-source extension.

Discussion fields

The fields show up on discussions.
The discussion author is able to edit them.

This feature is in beta and fields can only be filled after a discussion has been created for now.

Planned features: fields in discussion composer.

Similar to the FriendsOfFlarum Mason open-source extension.

katos

Great extension @clarkwinkelmann ! I'll for sure be giving this a spin, as I can see that this will be extremely useful for my forum niche.

theportablegeek

Hey @clarkwinkelmann ,

Amazing Extension! Two questions for you:

Do individual form submissions appear as discussions? What does the submissions area look like?
If we wanted to trial the extension, any idea the best way to go about it? @luceos this may be a question for you as well.

Cheers,
Andrew

luceos

theportablegeek If we wanted to trial the extension, any idea the best way to go about it? @luceos this may be a question for you as well.

Flagrow v2 (called extiverse) offers the developer the ability to configure a trial period for the extension. Whether the developer uses that is up to them. A trial period is a bit tough for extremely stable extensions though, because I will not force an uninstall (yet) of already installed premium extensions.

In my opinion, a trial period would make most sense for extensions early on. When new versions are still bound to happen. An upgrade would thus be blocked after the trial period ends and you decide to not pay for the extension.

What I do consider in the near future, to make up for the inability to test, is to offer one testing environment with all premium extensions installed and enabled. Similar to the current demo sites Flarum has.

clarkwinkelmann

theportablegeek Do individual form submissions appear as discussions? What does the submissions area look like?

There's a special page for submissions of each form. I'll add screenshots when I find the time, but it's really just a table with the date, user and a link to see the content. It's all part of the "form manager" section of the forum that's added by the extension.

theportablegeek If we wanted to trial the extension, any idea the best way to go about it?

You can send me a message over email of Discord and I can give you an admin access to the demo website if you would like. There's no option to trial on your own forum at this time, but I'll consider the demo feature of Extiverse when it becomes available.

clarkwinkelmann

I have just published a video introduction to the extension features.

My website has also been updated to offer the new install instructions and links for Extiverse (which replaces flagrow.io) https://kilowhat.net/flarum/extensions/formulaire

The price stay the same, though any tax/VAT is now included in the $5/month, so it might be a tiny bit cheaper if you cancel your flagrow.io subscription and move to Extiverse.

clarkwinkelmann

Version 1.0.2 - May 6, 2020

Fix issues with drag and drop in form editor and multi-field
Use new beta 13 features, add beta 13 compatibility

The new version only works on beta 13, and should install automatically when you update your forum to beta 13 via the official Flarum instructions.

If that doesn't work, you can temporarily remove the extension and install it again once you are on beta 13.

clarkwinkelmann

New pricing plan

With Extiverse now supporting multiple plans per extensions, I am adding a yearly plan to this extension.

You now have the choice between:

Monthly at $5/month
Yearly at $50/year (save ~16%)

clarkwinkelmann

Version 1.1.0 - October 21, 2020

Changed: it is now possible to enable notifications on non-standalone forms.
Changed: "accept submissions" and "allow edit" form settings now also available to non-standalone forms.
Changed: Viewing profile and discussion forms is now controlled by additional permissions instead of the global "view submission list" permission.
Added: new feature to create discussions automatically from a submission for Discussion fields.
Added: customizable title and body in notification emails.
Fixed: file uploads being invisible in readonly submissions.
Fixed: issue when Formulaire was enabled while Tags was disabled.

This version is only compatible with Flarum beta 13.
The Flarum beta 14 update will be released ~~within a week~~ pushed back at the request of customers.

The new features were sponsored by Konica Minolta. Thanks!

clarkwinkelmann

PSA: Formulaire is currently held back on Flarum beta 13 because I'm working on some additional features commissioned by clients who require beta 13 compatibility.

Additionally, I know most of my other subscribers are also held back for the time being. I have reached out by email to the other subscribers for which I don't know their situation regarding the beta 14 update.

The plan for now is to release a new and last beta 13 compatible version with new features in 1-2 weeks. Followed very shortly by the Flarum beta 14 compatibility.

If you are interested in purchasing this extension but your forum is already running Flarum beta 14, just get in touch and I'll accelerate the release of the beta 14 compatibility.

clarkwinkelmann

Little teaser of the new design/features which will be released next week 😉

katos

clarkwinkelmann now THAT is impressive.

ctml

clarkwinkelmann

Really like the new design and the bulk export feature, great work dude.

Question: Is it possible to include other user attributes (by default, forced) for user submissions that a user does not have to enter. For example their email tied to their account or display name (rather than username)?

MrB

Cool! Can't wait.

clarkwinkelmann

ctml under "more meta options", it's possible to include the email or display name as well, between other things.

It's taking a bit longer to get ready, I'm hoping to release it soon.

troymccann

@clarkwinkelmann How far away is the beta 14 version? I'd like to subscribe as I need a forms solution to launch an application process on Jan 4 (I'd rather not default to Google Forms). I understand that a single subscription isn't very financially persuasive, though!

clarkwinkelmann

troymccann I'm aiming for next week.

I might jump right to Flarum beta 15 though.

troymccann

Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for it. 🚀

troymccann

Hi @clarkwinkelmann ! How's the update coming along for beta 15? 🙂