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Event Custom Forms are Here!
Every parish and diocesan event has its own registration needs — a marriage prep retreat might need household and member details for a couple, while a mission trip might need emergency contacts, dietary restrictions, and signed waivers. Camino's new Form Designer gives you full control over that experience, letting you build custom registration forms field by field, tailored to exactly what each event requires — no outside form tools or manual data entry needed.
Accessing Form Designer:
Once you select an existing event through Events > Administration, you'll have the option to select the Form Designer tab and begin creating a custom form for your event.
As covered in the Event Creation breakdown, each Registration Type starts with a unique template in Form Designer. In our example, we'll continue working with the "Couple" registration type for our Marriage Preparation Retreat.
Form Designer Layout
When you enter Form Designer, you'll be greeted with this screen:
On the left of the top bar are the undo and redo buttons. Centered on that bar are the preview icons for previewing the form on a computer or phone screen. Below that are the two main sections: the form itself and the Assets section on the right.
The form will default to showing the event name at the top, with the event date below it. After that, there will be at minimum one of two sections — Family Information or Member Information. Since our example is a couple's event, both sections will appear. Below that will be discount codes and cost breakdowns, if the event has a cost associated with it. Finally, the bottom of the form will always include a comment section for the registrant to leave any specific comments.
Within the Assets section, there are three types of assets: Camino Household, Camino Member, and Standard Controls.
Camino Household Assets are household-level information that will autopopulate from a linked Camino Life profile.
Camino Member Assets are member-level information that will autopopulate from a linked Camino Life profile.
Standard Controls are custom fields you can create to accommodate any type of form input you're looking to build.
Note: Household Assets and Member Assets can only be placed in their corresponding section.
Any form box containing the Camino logo is a piece of information that will autopopulate for the registrant if they're registering through a linked Camino Life account. This can dramatically increase the convenience of signing up for parish and diocese events. If there's no linked Camino account, the user will need to type in the information themselves.
Standard Controls are custom fields you can place to create any unique field required for your specific event. Further down, we'll break down each of these individual fields.
For every asset in the Assets menu, there are options specific to that asset, as well as a set of universal options.
Universal Asset Options
- Required: This checkbox sets the field as required. The registrant won't be able to submit their registration without filling out marked fields.
- Label: All Standard Control assets allow you to give a title to the input field, shown on the registration form.
- Tooltip: This text appears when the user hovers their mouse over the field.
- Width: Set to 1 or 2 for how many slots the field takes up horizontally on your form. On mobile, the max width will be 1, but longer fields may wrap as needed.
- Maximum Length: For text fields, set the maximum number of characters allowed.
- Minimum and Maximum Values: Fields such as currency, time, and date allow you to set minimum and maximum values a user can select.
- Show Conditionally: Set a field to appear only based on the input of another field. Example: a checkbox for "Baptized" can be set so "Baptism Date" only appears if the member is marked as baptized. This allows for a great deal of flexibility in how you build your forms.\
Placing Assets and Editing Your Form:
To place assets into your form, select and drag them from the Assets menu onto the form and drop them into the spot you'd like them to appear. Some assets, such as Address and Consent Agreement, have preset sizing and formatting that will appear automatically once placed.
Anytime you see the six dots next to an asset block, you can drag that field up or down on your form. A black X removes the row. Selecting "+ New Row" adds a row to your form.
To place assets into your form, select and drag them from the Assets menu onto the form and drop them into the spot you'd like them to appear. Some assets, such as Address and Consent Agreement, have preset sizing and formatting that will appear automatically once placed.
Anytime you see the six dots next to an asset block, you can drag that field up or down on your form. A black X removes the row. Selecting "+ New Row" adds a row to your form.
Note: Some rows cannot be moved out of their Family or Member sections.
You can bring up the properties of any field by clicking on it in the form. This will bring up the controllable settings for the selected field.
Standard Control Asset Details
Standard Control Asset Details
- Text Field: Allows input of a custom single line of text from the registrant.
- Multi-Line Text Field: A larger text field that allows for multiple lines of wrapped text input.
- Number Field: An input field that only allows whole number inputs. You can select to make 0 a valid entry.
- Currency Field: An input field that allows numerical amounts up to two decimals, converted to USD.
- Dropdown: Create a selection input with a number of custom dropdown options.
- Multi-Select: Create multiple selections where a user can select one or more options at a time. Under properties, you can set the minimum number of selections registrants must make.
- Date: Allows the user to input a date or select one from a calendar. Options include excluding weekdays or weekends, and allowing or disallowing future or past dates.
- Time: Allows the user to input a time or select one from a clock.
- Link: Input a clickable link on the registration form. If this field is required, Camino can track whether the registrant clicked the link.
- Consent Agreement: Allows the user to review consent agreement text and check "I Agree" at the end of each agreement. You can copy your consent agreement language into the field using standard editing options.
Reminder: any fields placed under the Member section will show for each individual member registrant, while fields placed under Household will appear only once for the full registration. This is important to keep in mind for registration types such as Couple and One or More Members in Same Family, since these will register multiple members from a single household.
When your form is ready, click Save in the top right corner. You can always preview your form from the Form Designer screen, and once saved, the form will also be viewable through the link provided on the Event screen.
Our Example Form: CLICK HERE