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MichaelLe
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March 31, 2018
Declined

Custom Form Layout

  • March 31, 2018
  • 12 replies
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I was surprised to not find this already in the idea exchange. Maybe its because I am on my 13th hour today.. so if this is duplicate please accept my apologies.

One thing I have been very frustrated with custom forms is how the data fields are displayed once the form is rendered. In the custom form setup you basically have two options, do I want this field to be next to the one before it or do I want it to be underneath it. If you get too many side by side fields then it rolls over to the next line anyway. Even Microsoft Access lets you design custom forms on a grid.

At least with dashboards you have the option of choosing some basic layouts (see image).
Would it be so difficult to give us the same layout options for custom forms?

So I humbly submit this idea - "Custom Form layouts".

If you feel as frustrated with the look and feel of your custom forms I would appreciate your votes!

Michael

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    Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore
    Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore
    New Participant
    January 10, 2024

     

    Since this item has now been Declined (for now), I invite those interested to consider our UberCalc solution, which is a swiss army knife of functions you can use to enhance Workfront, such as generating job numbers, aggregating data, designing custom tabs with specialized workflows, and much more.

     

    Regards,

    Doug

    Vazgen_Babayan
    Vazgen_Babayan
    Employee
    January 10, 2024

    Thank you for the submission! We think this is a good enhancement to the Workfront platform overall and this product area in particular!

     

    Workfront currently prioritizes large-scale, foundational enhancements such as the new Reporting experience and changes to the core data model, so this item does not fit in our near-term roadmap. As such, I am marking this as Declined now, but we'll keep this in our backlog for the improvements for this area so that we can revisit the decision in the future.

    RhondaGayleTX
    RhondaGayleTX
    New Participant
    October 19, 2022

    Agree! Improvements are needed. 

     

    Also, it is difficult to design a form because the form preview is not accurate for some field types. This forces you to open a separate tab or window with a live request queue to see what the form will actually look like when in use. Of course, since it is a "live form" that you are using to visualize layout, you then have to refresh that "new request" after applying each change to the form. It is very cumbersome and also racks up drafts if you aren't careful.

     

    BTW, if you view the same form from the Request section of the queue project, you get a THIRD and completely different layout view that shows the beautiful orange section breaks that I  miss so much 😞  That little bit of color really helped break up the form for readability. 

    RandyRoberts
    RandyRoberts
    New Participant
    June 29, 2021

    How many points are needed for Workfront to look at this?

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    MarvinRhode
    New Participant
    June 22, 2021

    When adding multiple rows of fields to a form with sometimes two or three fields in the columns, the fields are distributed very oddly. Fields which are supposed to be next to each other are split to one field being on the left side, while the other field is displayed on the right side of the form. This leaves a huge gap in between them. I would like related fields always being displayed next to each other.

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    JohnSc14
    New Participant
    March 2, 2020

    I agree with Ryan Carroll completely!!

    richardm3571977
    richardm3571977
    New Participant
    October 12, 2019

    I agree with all that's being said here. I'm always amazed at the amount of software and functionality in Workfront, but the biggest area of limitation is in the display of Custom Forms, Reports and Dashboards. Wrike, Percolate and others have a lot of display flexibility and appealing UX for reports/forms.

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    gevorgkazaryan
    New Participant
    April 29, 2019

    Hey everyone,

    Thanks for upvoting this idea!

    The idea is very interesting and sounds like a very reasonable enhancement. However, I'm marking this as "Not Planned" as this functionality is not on the roadmap for the next 12 months.

    Thanks,

    _________

    Gevorg Kazaryan,

    Product Manager

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    JohnSe1
    New Participant
    April 9, 2019

    I'd "settle" on the ability to have

    - custom field aliasing on a form so that the field names can more direct and to the point. When you have an enterprise wide instance of 2k+ users from many departments some field names become very UGLY

    - ability to rename SUBJECT from the request queue page.... This is ALWAYS a 30-60 minute topic while on boarding and typically is brought up at every level of team so that 60 min time sink is multiplied 2-5x. And is a HUGE barrier to entry PUN INTENDED

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    RyanCa
    New Participant
    April 9, 2019

    I would like WAY more customization and refinement to the custom forms - we're a creative agency and honestly really need to make the forms as visibly digestible as they are functional

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