Text

The Text component is the general-purpose text field — use it for names, short answers, or longer free-text responses. A single toggle switches it between a single-line input and a multi-line text area, so you don't need two separate components.

The problem: an anonymous submission is hard to follow up on — if you can't tell who's asking, you can't route the request, credit the right person, or get back to them with an answer.

In practice: the person types their real name into the field:

The value: the record is now personally attributable — you know exactly who submitted it, and can route, reply, or audit accordingly.

Adding a Text field

1. Open your form in Form Studio.
2. In the component panel, find Text under Input.
3. Drag it onto the canvas, or click it to add it to the end of the page.
4. Click the field to open its settings.

Configuring the field

Content

• Label – the question or field name. You can type it directly, or switch it to a formula (via the small icon next to the label field) to compute it from other data — useful if the label itself needs to change per record.
• Default Value – a starting value for the field. This can be a fixed value, bound to existing data, or computed with a formula.
• Required – blocks submission until something is entered.
• View only – shows the value without allowing edits.

Settings

• Multiline – turns the single-line field into a text area. When you turn this on:
  • Choose a Height preset (Small, Medium, Large, or Custom with your own min/max height and auto-resize behavior).
  • Certain single-line-only validations (email, URL, password, phone) are automatically turned off, since they don't apply to free-text paragraphs.
• Show character counter – displays a live count of characters typed.
• Min / Max characters – set minimum and/or maximum length requirements.

Display & Style

• Placeholder – faint example text shown when the field is empty.
• Helper text – small instructional text under the field.
• Validation – choose a validation type (email, URL, phone, password, or a custom pattern) for single-line fields, with a built-in tester so you can check your pattern against sample text before saving.

Conditional Disable / Visibility

• Disable or hide the field based on other answers in the form, same as other Form Studio fields.

What the person filling out the form sees

• A single-line box, or a resizable/auto-growing text area if Multiline is on.
• A running character count if you've enabled it.
• Inline validation feedback if their entry doesn't match the chosen validation type (e.g. an invalid email format).

Tips

• Use Multiline + a Medium or Large height preset for anything you expect to be more than a sentence (comments, descriptions, notes).
• Pair Min characters with Required if a one-word answer wouldn't be useful (e.g. requiring at least 10 characters for a "describe the issue" field).
• If you need computed or dynamic text (e.g. showing a customer's name back to them), use the formula option on Label or Default Value rather than hard-coding it.