How to add a form to a card?

[Tim Kershaw]

Hi guess, I want to add a form to each card. A blank form that has our site visit questions for each project (card). Like the check list, but one you can write answers in? Any solutions here?

[Brittany Joiner · Accepted solution]

@Tim Kershaw welcome to the community! Couple ways you can solve this: 

- Use the Forms by Blue Cat Power-Up. This will give you a link that you can share with folks with a form and fields and once they fill it out, then it will create a Trello card. 

(i do this so readers on my trello newsletter can submit their trello questions.)

- Create a templated card OR create a board button that creates a templated card when clicked. In that templated card, you can have a description with heads for the questions and lines below it for folks to answer. 

- Add custom fields. This will probably be most close to form experience while staying inside a Trello card. You can add custom fields (or Amazing Fields Power-Up if you don't need automation and prefer more styling and customization), and your card can have blank fields that you can ask folks to update. 

Like this: 

Let me know if any of those make sense and if you need me to explain any of those options in more detail!

[Tim Kershaw]

Thanks very much Brittany. The Amazing Fields will do pretty much everything I need :)

[Brittany Joiner]

Awesome! Glad to hear it! Let me know if you need any help. And the founder is super awesome by the way and very receptive to feedback and happy to answer questions if you have  any 

[milynnus]

@Tim Kershaw 

I have recently worked with Hipporello and its power up builder.  You can create your forms on a webportal and or at the back of card etc. (support CF is on their roadmap). The ability to add conversation allows you to send and receive email from the submitter, members of the card/board, other contacts. This is quite an eye opener. It is like have Contalist and Sendboard in one package.  My understanding is that this will be extended beyond email communication. 

As a power builder you can go beyond form and conversation to add a sharing extension to it. 

[Çiğdem Büyükaşik]

Hi @Tim Kershaw,

Hipporello Apps Power-up allows you to design your cardback the way you want with a custom builder (forms, pages, conversation and more).

I can walk you through the steps to achieve what you want with forms, but I need to know what your end goal is. Can you give some more detail?

[milynnus]

@Tim Kershaw 

The common pattern for use of forms is to have the form create a card and in most cases, the questions and answers are in description or an attachment section like Typeform. 
For html form you can include an action to do essentially the same but you need to enable it with your own code. 

For your requirement, to show a blank form at the back of a card will probably require a custom power up that will allow it to be displayed there for a member to use the form. Once a form is filled, what do you planned on doing with the data collected? 

Is this want you are trying to achieve.