# Experimentele formulier sjablonen geïntroduceerd
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-form-templates/278631
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** feedback, new-feature, form-templates
**Created:** [16 oktober 2023 om 15:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-form-templates/278631 "2023-10-16T15:28:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [30 maart 2026 om 00:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-form-templates/278631/88 "2026-03-30T00:42:14Z")
Form templates are great!
Is it possible for us to add additional info and tips etc?
For example it would be nice if we can group by section or add headings, eg:
```plaintext
# My details
- type: input
id: name
attributes:
label: "My first name"
placeholder: "Please enter your first name here"
validations:
required: true
- type: input
id: surname
attributes:
label: "My surname"
placeholder: "Please enter your surname here"
validations:
required: true
# Company details
- type: input
id: name
attributes:
label: "My company name"
placeholder: "Company name"
validations:
required: true
...etc
```
It would also be good to use a form to compose the title.
Being able to add notes (that do not show in the final thread) would be good too, for example:
```plaintext
**Please note all threads in this section are reviewed before being made live.**
- Please do not post the same thread more than once.
- This section is for ____ only.
- Please post in English.
- If possible please come back and post a note in the thread to let us know when...
- etc
```
**Edit** : it would be nice to have notes that do also remain with the thread too.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [30 maart 2026 om 06:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-form-templates/278631/89 "2026-03-30T06:26:15Z")
There is a feature request you might be interested in voting for:
> [@Embed additional explainer text in Form Template](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-additional-explainer-text-in-form-template/286250):
>
> Hello! wave My first project (2021) with the forum was not successful in Kazakhstan, since most residents of our country use telegram or whatsapp. The appearance of the [Discourse AI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai/259214) bot (@Falco ) and [Chatbot](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chatbot-now-smarter-than-chatgpt/256652) (@merefield) plugins gave my site a second chance to exist, but only exclusively for communication between people with artificial intelligence. Now I am collecting request templates (prompts) in AI and this option for creating a ready-made template solves many of my problems. To fully u…
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### Author:  [@MachineScholar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MachineScholar)
#### Post date: [11 juni 2026 om 13:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-form-templates/278631/90 "2026-06-11T13:36:59Z")
> [@renato](#):
>
> - Toggle to still be able to select and use the freeform composer on categories with form templates
This would be incredibly useful for being able to switch between “form mode” and “regular mode” 😬
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [11 juni 2026 om 17:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-form-templates/278631/91 "2026-06-11T17:24:56Z")
+1 to that, the use case is very clear: mixing form-templated posts with other types of content.
We have an ‘tech-apps’ category where we can post just apps but then we have wikis and general topics there. On the current behavior we need to disable form templates entirely because it breaks the common posting actions.
A simple switch could be a nice adition to consider 🙂
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### Author:  [@mentalstring](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mentalstring)
#### Post date: [16 juni 2026 om 14:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-form-templates/278631/92 "2026-06-16T14:42:48Z")
This is a great feature and I’m excited about the possibility of replacing our somewhat clunky use of Category Template. However, I ran into some roadblocks for our use cases. Hence, providing some feedback as requested.
**Post body customization**
Our main wish would be to be able to format the created post; we’d like to have at least some control over that output. This could either be a separate field while editing/setting up the form, or even in yaml it could be along the lines of:
```plaintext
output: |
Some preset intro text goes here.
🗺 **{{ field_id_1.label }}** {{ field_id_1.data }}
Some other custom text
📅 **Our own label:** :
{{ field_id_2.data }}, {{ field_id_3.data }}
Something else entirely that makes sense on the post and not on the form since it's not related with filling it.
```
The form fields specify an `id` attribute and I was hoping I could use that to format the post output with CSS. However, they don’t seem to be on the output at all. Thinking about it, this would only work if editing the post would return back to editing the form as otherwise I’m guessing that structure would/could be lost upon editing the post. Being back to the form when editing the post would actually work very nicely for us and would help enforcing the validation which is currently trivial to ignore/bypass.
I suppose what I’m looking for is less a _Form Templates_ and more of a _Structured Topics_ feature of sorts which may be specific to my use cases… but maybe I’m not alone on this?
**Title customization**
Being able to also customize the topic title based on a combination of the form input would a nice feature too and I suppose it would be an natural extension of the suggestion above. Anyhow, this not a must for us, but a nice to have.
**Optional fields**
Lastly, — and I’m not sure if I may have missed something —, but it would be nice to specify that an input field is not to be included on the post. This is useful for things like checkboxes one needs to “agree to” when filling the form but that don’t need to be on the post.
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [22 september 2026 om 17:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-form-templates/278631/93 "2026-09-22T17:46:39Z")
> [@mentalstring](#):
>
> Lastly, — and I’m not sure if I may have missed something —, but it would be nice to specify that an input field is not to be included on the post. This is useful for things like checkboxes one needs to “agree to” when filling the form but that don’t need to be on the post.
I support this addition, it can improve a lot the overall usage of form templates 🙂
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