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Creating a form or survey

A form or survey in Xanti is a folder with questions. Each question is a separate item in that folder. This is how you make a new form and put it on your website.

Creating the folder

  1. In the admin, go to the place where you want to keep the form and click New Folder.
  2. Under Folder name, enter the name of the form, for example Contact form.
  3. Under Folder content, choose Questions. Only then do the form settings appear.
  4. Under Permissions, choose who may fill in the form. For a form that every visitor may fill in, choose Anonymous.
  5. Under Defaults for each question, tick what should apply to most questions, for example Required. Every new question gets these settings; you can still change them per question.
  6. Under Question-folder Done URL, use Choose URL to pick the page the visitor sees after sending, for example a page Thank you for your message. Create that page first as a normal page.
  7. Do you want a text above the form? Click Intro text and type the text.
  8. Click Save.

The form of a question folder with Folder content Questions and the question settings below it

Adding questions

  1. Open the folder and click Add Question.
  2. Under Type, choose the kind of question, for example Short reply for a short text field. See the page Question types and settings.
  3. Under Question, type the question as the visitor sees it, for example Your name.
  4. Click Save & Add New to create the next question right away, or Save when you are done.
  5. If you like, add a button as the last question, with the type Submit Button. Under Button text, type the text on the button, for example Send.

With More > View (under the heading Questions) you see all questions of the form one below the other.

Putting the form on the website

Create a menu item or a link in a text to the form. In the URL chooser (Choose URL), choose the folder of the form.

Always test the form yourself before you announce it: fill it in as a visitor and check that the thank-you page and the e-mail arrive correctly.

See also

  • Question types and settings
  • Receiving answers by e-mail
  • Viewing and exporting results

Checked: November 2026