Difference between Adaptive Form and Form components in AEM

AEM Sites and AEM Forms are sold via separate licenses. AEM Sites (i.e. Quickstart only) contains "Forms" components as part of AEM Sites functionality to design simplistic data capture functionality. Refer: Foundation Components . Customers with AEM Sites license can use "Forms" components for such use-cases.

Adaptive Forms feature is part of AEM Forms. A preview level feature is embedded inside Quickstart for easy discoverability but it does not unlock the full potential of mobile responsive Adaptive Forms with backend data integration, forms specific workflows, multi-channel documents creation, integration with other solutions like Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target in addition to document services capabilities. To realize the full potential of AEM Forms features including Adaptive Forms, customers need separate AEM Forms license.

To summarize, "Forms" components can be used with AEM Sites license and "Adaptive Forms" can be used with AEM Forms license.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, Khushwant. Your answer contradicts Scott's.

It'll be helpful if you can clarify.

There are two component groups Forms and Adaptive Forms. This is without the AEM Forms Add-on package.

Now I understand that the components under Forms components group can be used without additional licence.

What I am not clear is: Do we need additional licence for using Adaptive Forms components available in Quickstart even if we don't want the features in Add-on package?

The AEM Forms functionality included in AEM QuickStart is just for learning features and capabilities of AEM Forms. You require an additional license to use AEM Forms in production environment. The license provides access to AEM Forms add-on package, forms designer, and forms workbench and unlocks various features of AEM Forms.

Hi Gopal, Did you get answer to this? Can we use Adaptive Forms components without additional licence?

The answer to the first part of the question is 'yes', on runtime based on the user action or responses you can play with the form fields. You can not only show, hide or Enable the fields but add more instances of the fields or even the panels. Lot of things that you can do further. Please refer below documents for exploring rule editor and instance manager capabilities.

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/6-2/forms/using/creating-forms-repeatable-sections.html

AEM 6.1 Forms Help | Adaptive forms rule editor

-Mayank

Hi,

Can you please add more points to this statement "Adaptive forms dynamically adapt to user responses by adding or removing fields or sections based on user response."  Does this means author can add or remove the form fields? If so, i understand author can add/remove form fields in AEM form component as well. Please clarify

With AEM Licence, can we use both AEM forms or both AEM forms and Adaptive forms for Production servers.

Thanks everyone for the reply.

You are correct - with standard AEM lic - you can use AEM form components or make your own.

Thanks Khushwant.

There is one more clarification i need help with.

I now understand the difference between "Adaptive Form" and "Form" components.

Now have a question on AEM Forms.

If my understanding in correct "AEM forms" (previously life cycle) is a separate  product all together and needs a separate licence.

If i have an existing AEM licence i can use either "Adaptive Form" or "Form" components without an extra licence based on my needs.

Regards,

Manas