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About the Customization Panel

About the Customization Panel

The Customization panel is available for your convenience. It can be used to insert fields, add conditionals, get information from a linked entry, etc. Some of the tabs in the sidebar are disabled until the cursor is in a box where the shortcodes can be used.

It can be found in the right sidebar when you are in a View. Customization Panel View Sidebar

You can locate this as a modal in a form action in your form Settings → Actions & Notifications page. Customization Panel Modal Form Actions

You can find this under a modal when you go to the form Settings → Customize HTML page. Customization Panel Modal Customize HTML

Insert fields

Customize Panel Insert Fields The Insert Fields tab is used to insert fields and other helpful shortcodes. The Fields from your form section displays a clickable list of field IDs and Keys from the associated form.

For more information on the Insert Fields tab, visit the Insert Fields page.

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Conditionals

Conditional Panel The Conditionals tab is used to insert conditional statements, which conditionally hide or show content based on a specific field's value. These can be used in a View, email notification, confirmation message, or redirect URL. This tabs remains disabled until your cursor is in one of the settings boxes where conditionals are allowed.

For more information about conditional statements, visit the Conditionals page.

Advanced

Advanced Side Panel The Advanced tab is used to insert a variety of helpful shortcodes. For more information on the shortcodes available in this section, visit the Advanced page.

HTML Tags

This tab will only be available when you are in the 'Customize HTML' section of your form. The buttons in this panel can be used to insert simple shortcodes which will make it a little easier to customize your form. Read more: HTML tags to customize form HTML.

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