Using the Form Builder

How do I build a form in Survtapp?

Open the form builder and add questions from 22 types, then drag any question to reorder it. You can also add welcome and thank-you screens, page breaks, a Terms & Conditions element, images and dividers, plus conditional and chain/skip logic. Each question can be required and given a description, placeholder and validation. A form holds up to 75 questions.

The form builder is a drag-and-drop canvas for assembling your form.

What you can add

• Questions — 22 types, each with its own validation and required toggle. Two of them, the Business Card Scanner and the Voice Note, can only be answered in the mobile app; the builder marks them so.
• Welcome message and thank-you screens.
• Page breaks to split long forms across steps with a progress bar.
• A Terms & Conditions element, with an optional "I accept" checkbox the respondent must tick before submitting. See Terms & Conditions Element.
• Images before a question or beside the title, and dividers.
• Conditional logic and chain/skip logic to show the right questions to each respondent.

Drag any question to reorder it. Each question can be marked required and given a description, placeholder and validation rules.

How many questions a form can hold

• Up to 75 questions per form. The counter under the Add Question button shows how many you have used.
• Layout elements do not count: Page Break, Section Break and Description can always be added, even to a full form. Neither does the Terms & Conditions element.
• Up to 10 File Upload questions per form. Adding an eleventh shows "You can add a maximum of 10 File Upload questions per Form."
• Up to 5 image and signature captures per form (Photo Capture, Signature and Business Card Scanner, plus a waiver’s signature and initials blocks).
• One Business Card Scanner and one Terms & Conditions element per form. Once a form has one, its tile in the picker is disabled and says why.

A form that already held more than this before a limit was introduced keeps everything it has and can still be edited and saved. You just cannot add more of that kind until it is back under the limit.

The welcome screen

Turn on a welcome screen from the form’s Settings tab, under Welcome Screen. Choose a layout (text only, image only, or text and image), then write a title and a message. The message editor has bold, italic, underline, bulleted and numbered lists, and links, plus left, centre, right and justified alignment. The alignment you choose is the alignment respondents see; the title is always centred.

To add a link, select some text and press the link button. To change or remove a link, put the cursor inside it and press the link button again — clear the address to remove the link. Web addresses, email (mailto:) and phone (tel:) links are accepted; if you type a bare domain such as example.com, https:// is added for you.

Document uploads on a File Upload question

A File Upload question lets a respondent attach a document to their response. You will find it under Advanced in the question picker. Each file uploads to Survtapp the moment it is chosen, rather than waiting for the final Submit, so a slow or dropped connection no longer puts the whole response at risk.

• Per-file size limit: 10 MB.
• Accepted file types: PDF, JPEG and PNG. Nothing else is accepted — including Word (.doc/.docx), Excel (.xls/.xlsx), WebP, plain text (.txt) and CSV.
• Why only three: Survtapp checks the actual bytes of every upload against the file type the browser declared, and only these three have an unambiguous internal signature to check. A .docx or .xlsx is a ZIP archive, so its bytes are indistinguishable from any other ZIP; .doc and .xls use the older Office container that macro-based malware is usually delivered in; and .txt and .csv have no signature at all. Ask respondents to send documents as PDF.
• The account's storage quota applies at upload time — an upload that would exceed it is refused. The respondent is told only that the form cannot accept files right now and to contact the form owner; the message deliberately carries no plan, quota or usage figures, because an anonymous respondent cannot act on them and the account's billing position is not theirs to know. Account owners see the real figure on the storage usage panel in the dashboard.

Preview as you build

At any point, open Preview to see the form the way a respondent would. Nothing you submit in preview is recorded as a real response.

Publish and share

When the form is ready, publish it and share it via link, QR code, email or embed — or collect on a device in kiosk mode.

Frequently asked questions

What is the maximum number of questions in a form?

75 questions. Page breaks, section breaks, descriptions and the Terms & Conditions element do not count toward that number.

Why is the Add Question button still there when my form is full?

Because layout elements can still be added to a full form. The question tiles in the picker are disabled and say the form is at the 75-question limit; Page Break, Section Break and Description stay available.

How many File Upload questions can I add?

Ten per form, on every form type. The limit is separate from the photo and signature limit, so a form can hold ten File Upload questions and five image or signature captures.

Why is my welcome message centred?

The welcome title is always centred. The message follows the alignment you set in the editor; if it looks centred, select the text and press Align left.

Can I put a link in the welcome message?

Yes. Select the text, press the link button and enter the address. Put the cursor inside an existing link and press the button again to change it, or clear the address to remove it.