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:
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.