Forms
View form performance and inspect submissions collected from your pages.
What this area does
Contacts Forms is your submission operations view:
- A forms list with totals and recent activity.
- Search and sorting for finding forms by name, Form ID, page, activity, or submission volume.
- Placement links, connection summaries, and an archive for forms you no longer want in the active list.
- An analytics tab for form performance trends.
- A per-form submissions table with CSV export.
- Submission grouping based on the stable Form ID used by the published form widget.
Forms shown here come from published Form Widget widgets.
Review form performance
Use the list and analytics tabs
In Forms, review total forms, submission counts, and recent activity. Search by form name, Form ID, or page, and sort by newest, name, submissions, or recent activity. Switch to Analytics for deeper performance charts.
Open a form detail page
Select a form to open its submissions view, including mapped columns and row-level data.
Inspect or export submissions
Click a submission row to open details. Use Export CSV when you need an export.
Submission details behavior
- Search the submissions currently loaded in the table. Sort the submitted date, name, email, and other available field columns by selecting a column heading. Load more rows before searching when you need to include older submissions.
- When a submission is tied to a contact, clicking that row opens the contact slideout on the Activity tab with submission context.
- Form submissions tied to contacts are available from the contact activity feed.
- If a submitted email matches a contact that was previously removed from the active list, Hiveality restores that contact instead of creating a duplicate or dropping the submission.
- Columns are generated from the form field schema.
- Extra unmapped keys are shown in the detail drawer.
- Submission details can include the submitted page, source identifier, and available visit attribution such as campaign tags, referrer, and landing path.
- If a published form was edited after earlier submissions, Hiveality still uses the rendered field labels from the submission so valid entries are not blocked by older field definitions.
Build and publish forms
- Create forms in Form Widget.
- Publish page updates from Drafts and Publishing.
- After publish, new forms and submissions appear in Contacts Forms.
- In the Form widget's Submission settings, turn on Email Notification when a team inbox should receive each submission. Hiveality can prefill the recipient and subject from your current email settings, and you can still customize them before saving.
- Notification emails use duplicate prevention and a short retry when it is safe to retry. Hiveality also keeps the delivery outcome with the submission so failed notifications are easier to review.
Connected form management
Connected assistants and API-key workflows can read and update forms after review.
- Read one form with its submission totals, current settings, duplicate-name warnings, and the pages or pop-ups where it appears.
- Update a form name, Form ID, field list, tags, lists, submit button text, thank-you message, redirect, or notification email settings.
- When a connected workflow sends tag or list names instead of IDs, Hiveality resolves existing names for the website and can create missing tags or lists before saving the form connection.
- When a form appears on a page or pop-up, Hiveality writes the same settings into the embedded Form widget and refreshes the live view. The edit remains in place after the page or pop-up is saved again.
- Renaming a Form ID also updates matching Form Submitted flow triggers so follow-up automations keep running.
- If several imported or copied forms share one record, a connected workflow can split one page onto a new Form ID. Existing submissions stay with the original form, and new submissions from that page use the new form.
- Deleting a form preserves submissions by default. If submissions must be removed too, export or review them first and confirm the removal explicitly.
- If a deleted form is still embedded on a page or pop-up, Hiveality warns that saving that surface can recreate it until the widget is removed.
Automations
Use Flow Triggers with the Form Submitted trigger to run follow-up automations after submissions.
Check form connections
The Forms list shows where each form appears. Select a page label to open that page in the builder, or open the connection badge to review linked pages, tags, lists, flows, and redirects without opening the form first.
In the form widget settings, the Connections panel summarizes what is tied to the current form:
- Pages where the form is embedded.
- Tags and lists added after submission.
- Direct flows that start from the form.
- Redirects that run after submit, including missing destination warnings.
When you edit submit actions before saving, the panel previews the updated connections so you can see what will happen before publishing.
You can also ask Agent Bee questions like "What happens when someone submits this form?" to review the same form connections from chat.
Archive forms
Archive an unused form to remove it from the active list without deleting its submission history. Archived forms appear in the collapsed
Archived section at the bottom of the Forms list and can be restored at any time.
Archiving does not remove a Form widget from a published page. Review the form's placement and connection badges before archiving, then edit and publish the page if visitors should no longer be able to submit it.
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