Introducing brand new Form Builder addon in SP Page Builder 3.4.4 Pro

25 February 2019

4 min read

Hello everyone, how was the weekend? Of course I hope it was a smashing one. And today I’m here with an amazing announcement that will make your life more flexible. Here comes Form Builder, the shiny new SP Page Builder addon wrapped in v3.4.4 Pro. It’s a complete form building solution for Joomla.

Before going to the details, let’s take a look at the changelog of SP Page Builder 3.4.4 Pro:

New: Form Builder addon
New: Column order option added for tablet
Updated: Admin documentation link
Fix: Image Layouts addon tablet order property bug
Fix: Incorrectly spelt component in URL for the fronted editor
Fix: helpers/articles.php Invalid Argument Supplied issue for Article Scroller addon
Fix: Heading addon live edit heading selector empty issue fixed

Announcing Form Builder addon

How many times have you tried to build a form that speaks your tongue? I think every time you created a form, you wanted to have some custom flavor that reflects your brand and identity better.

Until today, SP Page Builder used to have 2 form addons - Contact Form, which is relatively a basic contact form addon, and the Opt-in Form addon for email subscription stuff. With today’s Form Builder addon, we bring the power of building limitless forms on Joomla.

What’s so special with Form Builder?

The Form Builder addon is an incredibly powerful tool to create functional contact forms (WCAG 2.1 and Section 508 compliant) on your Joomla site. It has a collection of rich and useful features to create a solid and accessible contact form in minutes. Here is an overview of the addon. But you must try it to discover the full potential.

Flexibly choose from the 10 built-in form fields

One of the most interesting features of the Form Builder addon is that, you can add form fields flexibly. There are 10 built-in fields from where you can choose and place them in the contact form. The built-in fields are:

Text
Email
Phone
Textarea
Radio
Checkbox
Select
Date (with Calendar)
Range
Number

So, you can choose the field-types, change the label, style the look, and customize as your needs. You must be wondered seeing it in action.

A rich set of customization options

The form fields are heavily customizable. You can use a field in multiple purposes. For an example, the Text field alone can be used in more than 70% of the fields such as Name, Address, Designation etc.

Plus, there are styling options like font size, font color, padding-margin, borders, alignment, success/failure messages, redirection and so much more.

Email functionality

Use the "Field Names" in the email template fields in double curly braces to use as variables. Input the Field Names in the Form Elements section. Then Go to the Email Template tab and organize your email template. See the screenshot below. Also, try the addon live.

It’s obvious, and we’ve managed it wisely. The Form Builder addon’s email field lets you add the sender and receivers’ email addresses so that the communication can happen. There is a highly customizable email template system with lots of dynamic features to automate the stuff.

Security and compliance

As always, we’ve taken the security and compliance matters seriously. In the Form Builder addon, you can implement question based captcha system (e.g. 5+6 = ?) or Google reCAPTCHA.

These will offer a solid shield of spam protection. Plus, you can place a policy agreement checkbox (e.g. GDPR) for more transparency and better compliance handling.

There’s more

Besides the new Form Builder addon, SP Page Builder 3.4.4 brings a bunch of other improvements and fixes to the component. The Text Block addon title gets some more tag options like <p>, <span>, and <div>. And a few known issues have been fixed.

I’m confident that you will find the Form Builder addon tremendously useful. What would you make with it today? Please share your thoughts and suggestions in comments. Happy weekday :)

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Arafat Bin Sultan

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cmfionline

5 years ago

Excellent update with the form builder addon.
I am trying it out now. How you make multicolumn forms as in your post above?
Also, conditional field option would be greatly appreciated.

#7736

Paul Frankowski

Thanks, Watch the video again. Use Field width, to get 3 columns, use 33% for 3 fields. To get two columns, use 50%.

#7739

Onur Aktas

after i installed new update and go to create , field width is set to 50 as default
and i cannot make 2 or 3 columns with changing these
i use flex template
any ideas?

#7799

meto

It is too late but great.
Kindly open the forum to discuss topics

#7737

Thanks, it's never too late to get a great feature. You can use that addon in upcoming projects.

#7738

Pinheiro

I Love Pagebuilder !!!! You have changed the lives of many who make projects for clients ... and I was one of them !!! Thank you very much ;)

#7775

MMDoege

is recaptcha included now?

#7740

yes sir.

#7755

stq74

yes, add the options of conditional field and it will be compet, thank you

#7741

F-Cee Van Wyk

4 years ago

Yes I agree, I love using form builder, however there's no option to create more complicated forms that need conditional logic. Adding this feature would make from builder absolutely perfect.

#9947

Heviland

Cooooooooolllll !!!!!!!!!

Make plz registration form too :)

#7742

thanks, maybe in the future, we have to wait for Joomla 4.0 first. Too big changes in core.

#7749

Sidney McSwain

I don't see a file upload feature. Will this be added later?

#7743

Thanks, it's the weakest point of every form, I mean in security topic. But we will think about it soon, to allows upload safe files only (pdf, zip, images).

#7750

ikarus56

That would be a great feature. Upload features are used often by my customers.

#7959

Thomas Kutter

Great Update with the form builder addon.
Can you also send a copy to the sender?

#7744

Thanks, yes it's possible. Check Email Template tab.

#7754

webtuits

What about label translation? Previously we had to create language overrides for each field label.

#7745

Thanks. Now each label you can add from addon settings.

#7751

Nait

Looks as a brave new update!
For future development - conditionals fields will be great (when you click here, this will happen (new list or anything), when you choose this, a list of other possibilities... etc.).

Also my traditional question - how far is the development of media manager, i.e. the possibility to choose other than "image" folder"?

Thanks for your work, the world in lighter with every new update :-)

#7746

PJ131

Thank you! Great work, as this was need, many thanks.

#7747

Thanks a lot.

#7752

POIREL

Nice novelty but I have a question about the information collected in the form.
Currently I use the component Breezingformpro which is in passing the best form manager that I know and that fully answers the questions posed above.
The question is to know if we can keep the information in a base then export in cdv for example. In the meantime, congratulations for this work and SPB!
cordially
Denis

#7748

Thanks, not planned yet. We do not want to replace/duplicate Breezingform, JSN Form nor RSform components.

#7753

HDcms

HI,
nice update :)
Pretty close: do you have in your schedule, the addition in the visualization of a Joomla article to be able to add custom fields Joomla?
if not a voting system for new features?

#7756

Panagiotis Podaropoulos

Great addition, found a tinsy bug though.
If you add the form into a tab then try to add a select option it crashes. (I get a blank screen and need to refresh to page)
Keep it up!

#7757

Al Mamun

Thanks for time to test. We have not test it in inside accordion or tab. We will check this issue and if we get any issue with tab or accordion will fix that.

#7762

Wilson Junior

Fantastic! Congratulations. My favorite page builder. Please put in your radar: integrate it with MailChimp and I discard all others form builders.
Awesome!

#7758

Thanks, MailChimp is integrated in Optin Form addon. Don't know should we add MailChimp in this addon also.

#7763

Dustin Swayne

The problem with opt-in form is that it collects full name rather than first name and last name broken into two fields. Mailchimp is looking for separate fields FNAME and LNAME

#9443

Gergely Kovács

I haven't tested it yet, but one feature would be great I couldn't read above.
Does it have any url redirection to a "Thank You" page? Would be perfect for our SEO.

Thnaks and great job as usual! :)

#7759

Yes, you can redirect to thank you page. There is a option for that.

#7764

Philip Cabezas

Awesome, this is a great add on. Instead of using other extensions.

Are you guys going to add a "file upload" option? This is the only attribute that seems to be missing.
It is the cherry on top of a delicious cake.

Thanks

#7760

Thanks, uploading file is crucial part of form.

#7765

Rob

Looking good. What is the syntax to include in Email Template for Checkbox Items?

#7761

For checkbox item there is a checkbox name option, add that field name to email body box in email template tab. Like if you have two checkbox item and name are term-one, term-two then in email add [code type="html"]

Terms:{{term-one}}

Terms:{{term-two}}

[/code]

#7766

Yes - can do it that way but Is there an IF statement? Only want to return a value if the field is checked.

#7767

Awesome to know that you ca do that. But unfortunately there is no option for IF statement.

#7808

studioa14

"insert a file" ...it must be in the next update

#7768

Thank you, we will think about it soon, to allows upload safe files only (pdf, zip, images).

#7771

Pavel

Great new addon. Thanks guys! Do you have a plan to make a popup feature?

#7769

Thanks, Pavel for your voice and help which you give our users.
Popup for form addon?

#7770

Maybe add pop-up feature in Form Builder addon or add the ability to add any add-ons to an existing pop-up addon, as it is in accordion or tabs. This would allow making popup forms and not only. Pop-up form - a very popular feature.

#7772

Wagner Michel

Thanks to the Joomshaper team for all that happiness!
Can we put a form in a modal popup?

#7773

Thanks, not yet. But we will consider that option soon.

#7776

Andrew Hone

Looks a good feature. Do you know if it supports creating a hidden field and assigning a value to it (e.g. to allow you to allocate a new sign-up to a specific group within Mailchimp)

#7774

Not yet, but it's a great idea. It should be easy to add in near future.

#7778

senolsengul

thanks :)

#7777

You're welcome. Now fewer extensions you have to install to manage a website. :D

#7779

Behrouz

Hello
Please fix tab module with class "sp-module", this class ruined tab module.I even can't use widgetkit plug-in due to Class(sp-module) defined in "any template\html\modules.php"
thanks

#7784

Thanks Behrouz for your feedback. This has been forwarded to our development team. Regards.

#7791

#7797

Have you tried by clearing your browser cache?

#7802

Are you sure that we talk about this same addon? Form addon is a new one, it wasn't available in the previous version.

#7807

Michal Jablosnki

Thank You. You are the best.

#7805

Thanks for your love and trust :)

#7806

george

Cool!
How can I change the position of the button to send to the css class, is it necessary that the 2 forms to be filled are in the same line as the button to send?

#7816

Hi george, please post on the support forum: https://www.joomshaper.com/forums

Regards.

#7819

How to make "Form Fields Inline with button" in Form builder?

#7817

Please post on the support forum: https://www.joomshaper.com/forums

Thanks.

#7820

But first, remember to renew SPPB subscription.

#7839

mehmet

how can we add file atachment with contact form ?

#7832

You have to wait for SPPB update which will add this feature.

#7838

gmmillard

Awesome!!

Is there an option to save the submissions, we find this very useful when email providers change their Spam filters and email stops getting through, we can then go in to the Forms Database and look at the submissions that didn't arrive.

Thanks

#7912

In the current version is not possible, but we can consider that in the future. Yes, I know how it works I used RSFormsPro as well.

#8419

vaggelis

Hello,
how we can change the date format from mm/dd/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy ?

#8417

But where exactly? In which addon?

#8418

Mostafa

Hello,
I have SP page builder pro 3.3.5, I cannot find that Form builder addon included, I need it badly, What shall I do, Thank you.

#9378

Please ask on our support forum. Thanks.