Form widget: fields, validation, submissions
Building a contact or signup form, plus where submissions land (dashboard, email, Slack, integrations).
Field types
The form widget covers everything a small business needs to capture an enquiry. Add fields from the settings panel and arrange them in the order you want:
- Single-line text — names, company, subject.
- Email and phone — with the right keyboard on mobile.
- Long text — for the message or enquiry details.
- Dropdown, checkbox and radio — for choices like service type or preferred time.
- Date — for bookings and requested appointments.
- File upload — where you need a document or photo.
Mark fields required or optional, and keep the form short; every extra field costs you submissions.
Validation rules
Validation stops bad data before it reaches you. Avago checks the obvious cases automatically — a required field can't be empty, an email field must look like an email, a phone field must be plausible. You can tighten this further: set minimum or maximum lengths, restrict a field to numbers, or make one field conditional on another. Friendly inline messages tell the visitor exactly what to fix, which means fewer abandoned forms.
Where submissions go
A submission never just disappears — you choose where it lands, and you can pick more than one destination:
- The dashboard — every submission is stored in Avago, so you always have a record you can search and export.
- Email — sent to one or more addresses the moment it arrives.
- Slack — posted to a channel of your choice, handy for shared inboxes.
- Mapped integrations — routed into a connected tool such as Mailchimp or HubSpot, with form fields mapped to the right contact properties.
Set at least two destinations — the dashboard plus email is the sensible minimum — so a missed email never means a lost lead.
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