Use On Boarding for New Applicant Forms

Is it possible to use the On Boarding to navigate between slides and forms.  I was attempting to use the On Boarding to allow Volunteers to fill out various application forms.  I wanted to have each slide explain the upcoming form and then have the user hit next and go to a form, and from the form SAVE return to the next slide.  I attempted to add a navigation field to my On Boarding table, but was unable to make it work.  I want to make it as easy as possible for the Volunteer to enter the information we need.  One form Volunteer Application is for basic information (Name, Address, email, phone, etc.).  Another form is requesting them to check the Job Types for which they are willing to volunteer.  Another form is to gather information about their skills/abilities (Like Electrician, HVAC, Plumbing, etc.) and another for which days can they work.  Is this possible??

 

I have started a second attempt to gather this information using Related Tables and Is Part Of.  But that form is not as clean to work with.

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@BobSig Hi, I beleive you can do this by using Show columns in your form.

Use Show Coloumn with Page Type to allow moving to next page in form which then has Show Columns with Image / Text, then next Page is form  fields again and so forth. This will allow users to navigate through fillable fields and then use Next button to see slides and next back to fields as long as you feel... I can't say how many you can use but it should work well for your scenario..

You can even use conditional Show expressions to make certain show Columns appear based on what user is selecting in form.. 

See @Suvrutt_Gurjar Links below and sample App.... Super useful and should get you going.. 

Hi @Denzil_Snyman ,

I see that you have already replied on similar lines. I believe you had already replied when I was typing in my reply as our replies are 4 minutes apart.  I realized this when I revisited this post.

My reply is similar to yours. Good to know our thoughts are on similar lines. 👍Since we both have referred some useful links ( I have one of a sample app), I think will retain my reply as well, otherwise I would have deleted it.

Based on your description, you may want to explore the use of show type columns to describe what information they need to fill in and other show columns such as Page headers and Section headers to separate various sections of the form. With this entire volunteer information can be collected in a single form and single table if your app design permits it.

Multi-Page Forms - AppSheet

Improve the presentation of detail and form views using Show types - AppSheet Help

 

 

I am using Show columns to separate the forms. I am using separate and
relate tables because each table will collect specific information. For
instance abilities. I will automate this table to make individual rows for
each enumlist value selected. Same for days of the week they can volunteer
and same for job types for which they are willing to volunteer. That is why
I am not using one big table. I was hoping the On Boarding would give me a
cleaner user experience. As I mentioned slide one explains basic
information form and clicking Next takes the user to that form. Saving that
form takes the user to slide two which explains the form to select
abilities. Saving this form takes the user to slide three. And continues
until all forms are filled out.

I am working with a second possible form using a Form instead of On
Boarding. This Form is using Tabs to move through the differ related table
forms. But when the related table page comes up it is not the entry form.
It is a page about the table and you have to click new to get to the form.
This is not user friendly. Looking to clean it up and make it easy for users
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