Building a form
The Agoo Forms builder, with its 34 kinds of question, pages, endings and settings, plus preview, publishing, versions and the keyboard.
Agoo is in early access. This page describes the feature as it ships to early-access organisations; screens are illustrative.
The builder has five tabs: Build, Logic, Endings, Settings and Share, and Responses once people answer. It works with a mouse, a finger or the keyboard, on a computer, a tablet or a phone (where the palette and inspector open as sheets).
Questions and pages
- Add a question: drag it from the palette onto a page, or click it (or press A) to add it after the question you've chosen.
- Move it: drag it by its handle, within a page or to another one; or press Space on the handle, move with the arrow keys and press Space again. Every move is announced to screen readers.
- Set it up in the inspector: the words, help text, Must be answered, lengths and limits, options (drag to reorder, or Paste a list), and its privacy (see Privacy and retention).
- Pages: add, name, move and delete pages. Respondents see one page at a time, or one question a screen if you choose it in Settings.
Kinds of question
| Group | Kinds |
|---|---|
| Text and contact | Short text, Long text, Email, Phone, Web address |
| Numbers and time | Number, Amount (cedis and pesewas), Date, Time, Date and time |
| Choices | Single choice, Multiple choice, Dropdown, Yes or no, Consent, Tags |
| Scales | Stars, Faces, 0 to 10, How easy |
| Ghana | Ghana Card, Digital address, Region and district |
| More | Statement, Section, Signature, Matrix, Ranking, Hidden, Calculated, File upload, Photo |
| Organisations | Staff member (in an organisation's workspace, Forms Team) |
Signature, Ghana Card, Matrix, Ranking, Hidden and Calculated questions come with Forms Plus; the palette marks them. There is no password question, and there never will be.
Ghana's own
- Phone: Ghana first. People can type
024 123 4567,+233 24 123 4567or0244…, and the number is checked against Ghana's numbering plan. Allow other countries in the question's settings. - Ghana Card:
GHA-123456789-0, checked for its form, then sealed and masked: see Privacy and retention. - Digital address: a GhanaPost GPS address such as
GA-183-8164, checked for its form. - Region and district: all 16 regions, then the district, from Agoo's own list of Ghana's places.
- Amount: cedis and pesewas, shown as GH₵1,234.50.
Endings and settings
- Endings: what people see after sending: a heading, words and, if you like, an
httpsaddress to go on to. Logic can choose the ending (Forms Plus). - Settings: the title and words; who's answering (no name, or a name if they like); a progress bar; a page at a time or one question a screen.
Planned
Confirming who answers with an email code (Forms Plus) or an Agoo account (Forms Team), one response a person, receipts to respondents, and closing a form on a date or after a number of responses come with the next step. Settings shows them as not yet available.
Checks, preview and publishing
The builder checks the form as you go, and marks each problem on its question, rule, ending or setting; the tabs count what's left. Preview shows the form exactly as respondents will see it, on a phone or a computer, with its logic working. Nothing sent in a preview is kept.
Publish makes a new version. Published versions never change: people halfway through the previous version can still send it for a day, and responses remember the version they answered. More → Versions lists every version with who published it and when; open one to read it, or Restore as draft.
Saving and working together
Your draft is kept on your computer as you type and saved to your account every few seconds. If someone else in the workspace saved a newer draft, the builder keeps both and asks: Keep mine or Take theirs.
| Keys | Does |
|---|---|
| ⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z (Ctrl on Windows) | Undo and redo |
| ⌘D | Copy the question |
| ⌥↑ and ⌥↓ | Move it, across pages too |
| A | Add a question |
| P | Preview |
| ? | List every shortcut |
Workspaces and roles
Personal, team and organisation workspaces in Agoo Forms, the five roles, invitations and how many editors each level allows.
Logic
Show and hide questions and pages from earlier answers on every level, and on Forms Plus and Team require answers, jump ahead, end early, and work out totals and scores.