Clone Fields

The HRWize form builder allows you to create different types of forms for many different purposes. The form will typically comprise a series of fields that can be used to collect data about, or from your employees.

The Form builder has a special feature that allows one or more fields to be duplicated, or cloned, as many times as required, as the form is being completed. This means that the initial form can be much smaller i.e. fewer fields to start with and avoids fields that are not required.

The person completing the form will see one or more fields in a section with a "Duplicate fields" button after the last field. Clicking on this button will create a new set of these fields which they can then complete. In this example, the form has a series of fields to complete for employee objectives which can be duplicated by the employee as many times as required for each objective.

To duplicate fields in a form, go to:

Administration > Company > Form builder

Click on the Add button at the bottom, complete the mandatory fields and all other fields you wish to add, and click Submit.

Add fields as required to your form.

To create a cloned field, repeat as above but for "Field type", select Clone – start, and in the "Values" field enter the name which will appear as a heading at the beginning of this clone section.

Now, add the field or fields that you wish to duplicate or clone in the form. You can follow the same steps to creating a field as above, however, the "Clone field" will now need to be set to Yes. Click on Show advanced options to access the Clone field.  

The last field of your cloned section, the "Clone – end" will need to be created following the same field creation method. The "Clone field" would be set to No as below:

Click Finish building form. To see how to use these clone fields work, depending on the type of form you have created. For a Performance review form, go to:

Performance > Review forms

Select the Add action of the form you wish to look at.

Scroll to where the clone field(s) is/are. Here you will see the fields that will be cloned when you click on the Duplicate fields button:

 The Duplicate Fields button will allow you to duplicate the fields that have been created in the form builder.

Please Note - The clone function can only be used once per form.