Is there any replacement for the Forms App? I liked this application because it was the equivalent to MS and Google Forms in the platform, with responses stored in Fusion Sheets.
Hey! Actions are the recommended approach here. Is there something actions don’t cover that you are looking for?
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@ninam6116 You may find what you need to use as a replacement is a Workshop application, which has an Action in the background.
We certainly needed that approach for some of the more complex forms we had to decommission. The validation available naively in Actions is not as flexible as it was in Forms. e.g. we had cases where a later field had to have different validation logic for its value (like a serial number), dependent on what was selected upstream (e.g. the type of vehicle). Actions won’t do this in their native forms.
Then you can check and validate your inputs in the Workshop, giving the users feedback if anything is wrong, and then trigger the Action with those correct inputs.
But it does still mean instead of doing Forms → Fusion → Dataset, you now have Object + Action + Workshop (+ Functions?) → Materialisation Dataset, which is more effort and has only limited ability to be branched together for synchronised changes.
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Hi @arochat I was looking for the Forms backed by Fusion Sheets as it did not require creating an ontology but it should be simple to setup. Thanks!
@green Thank you! Yes, that’s exactly the complexity I was hoping to avoid. I was curious whether the Approvals application could potentially be extended to support user-created forms with automated backend setup, which might streamline this process.
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