Quick Start is the fastest way to create mobile forms in GoCanvas. You don’t need to be an expert in mobile forms. Upload a PDF, drag and drop fields onto your PDF, test, and deploy—all in one place.

Quick Start

Building a form has never been easier in GoCanvas. Simply upload your existing PDF into our Quick Start Builder, drag-and-drop fields, format, and publish!

Basic Form Builder Tour

If you are familiar with GoCanvas, the layout will feel familiar with some subtle differences that you'll notice in this tour. For those that are completely new to GoCanvas, this tour will help you familiarize yourself with our interface.

Navigate to the Forms page and expand the Create New drop down in the upper right corner of the screen. Select Basic Form.

Once inside, you will see this:

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Running along the top of the Builder is an action bar that includes a drop down in the upper left corner where you can Start Over with a new form or Reset the existing file by removing any fields that have been added.

The center of this action bar is where you can name your form. To the right of the form name is the Test in browser button followed by the Save, Publish, and Close buttons.

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Below the action bar, the Builder is broken into three sections. On the left side is the Field Library.

Fields are categorized into Types and/or Styles within the Field Library and they all serve specific purposes. The first iteration of Quick Start does not have all of the fields or features that are available in the Advanced Form Builder. Below is a chart detailing supported and unsupported features. Please note this is not an exhaustive list and will be updated as needed.

In the center is the workspace. Once you upload your PDF here, you can start formatting your fields and PDF design simultaneously. At the bottom of this section is a slider to Zoom in or out of the form while building, up to 400% magnification. Clicking the plus or minus will increase or decrease the magnification by 5% per click. Lastly, at the top right of this section are the Undo and Redo buttons.

On the right side of the screen is the Preview panel. This panel has two tabs, Pages and Outline. Pages shows each page from your original PDF and allows you to navigate to a page by clicking it in this panel. 

Outline lays out the fields in your form in the order that they were added to the center workspace. If you want the mobile user to complete the fields in a different order than shown in the Outline, simply drag and drop them into the order you would prefer.