Forms Progress Update: New Capabilities Beyond Action Form | The Low-Code Café #196

In this episode of Low-Code Café, hosted by Dale Warner of Plant an App, the focus was on the updates to the Forms 2.0 product. The session included a detailed hands-on demonstration of new field types such as currency, phone, and rich text boxes, emphasizing the form builder's intuitive drag-and-drop interface and improved visual approach. Additionally, Warner introduced participants to new support features and hotfixes, while discussing enhanced button settings, styling options, and handling of error messages within the new form builder, showcasing its capability to manage validations and customize styling through CSS classes. The episode provided insights into the improvements in design flexibility and user experience offered in Forms 2.0. 00:00 - Introduction and Overview 02:01 - From the Trenches of Support 02:14 /// Discussion on current release version 02:59 /// Explanation of hotfixes for current version 07:54 - Hands-On Low Coding: Forms 2.0 09:12 /// Demonstration of Forms 2.0 features 20:15 - Currency Field 20:23 /// Setting the initial currency 20:30 /// Adding multiple currencies 22:14 /// Excluding certain currencies 26:20 - Phone Field 26:54 /// Setting the country for the phone number 27:36 /// Switching to global mode 29:40 /// Demonstrating the bug in multiple countries mode 31:12 - Rich Text Box 31:43 /// Adding initial values to the rich text box 31:57 /// Setting a minimum height for the rich text box 32:15 /// Demonstrating the output of the rich text box 32:31 - Content Block 33:07 /// Inputting plain text into the content block 34:30 /// Switching to rich text for entry 34:45 /// Expanding tokens into the content block 36:07 - Context Initialization 36:28 /// Demonstrating how to access the context initialization section 37:13 /// Copying things needed from the context initialization section 37:43 - Button Settings 40:48 /// Demonstrating the icon position setting 41:42 /// Explaining the root CSS class setting 41:59 - Styling and CSS classes in the new form builder 43:29 /// Explanation of the validation section 44:03 /// Demonstration of adding multiple validations 46:14 - Canvas design size and drag-and-drop experience 46:28 /// Demonstration of using canvas design size 47:56 /// Discussion on improvements to drag-and-drop experience 48:52 - Styling error messages and actions 49:20 /// Demonstration of adding a class to a toast message 55:39 /// Discussion on how fields are given classes for styling --- The Low-Code Café is our monthly community webinar & work session where we share ideas, and updates, and even build working applications together, from the very simple to the very complex, with the help of the Plant an App Platform. RSVP for the next edition here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3015952938279/WN_Y0OUx5njQFatTEMCk3B0yg Learn more about the fastest way to build powerful web apps - https://www.plantanapp.com/ Every webinar, we will build apps together and have a great time. Besides specific topics and getting together with the community, we also have our regular segments to showcase the latest updates, tips & tricks. - Product Roadmap Updates, with Bogdan Litescu, Head of Product Development - Stories from the Trenches, with Dale Warner, Head of US Support - Hands-on Low-Code, with members of the Product Development team - Bogdan Litescu, CEO & Founder, is the one to start the show, and our regular webinar host Be sure to hit the like button and subscribe to the channel for more low-code insights and updates.