A tool offered by Sitecore, Web Forms for Marketers Module (WFFM) aids marketers to create simple forms, without additional help from the developer. One just needs to add basic input fields (text boxes, checkboxes), save actions and validators, and voila, you’re done within a few clicks! This module is a great tool to help marketers create and published their own forms. Unfortunately, this addition is no longer available from Sitecore 9.2 onwards. Fret not, its discontinuity has given way to Sitecore Forms that offers a range of benefits, and will help marketers fulfil their targets.
Sitecore Forms is the future
WFFM has a limited shelf-life, since Sitecore had already announced that WFFM support would be discontinued, post Sitecore 9 update 2. This is no cause of worry, since Sitecore has already provided an alternate to WFFM - adding Sitecore Forms module in Sitecore 9. Sitecore Forms has a wide range of features. Let’s look at a few of them: -
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The Problem Statement
WFFM has been an important module since its inception, and there have been several implementations, that heavily rely on this application As Sitecore is dropping support for the legacy WFFM and creating numerous Sitecore Forms, this can be a tedious and time-consuming affair, if not done correctly. An automated approach is required that can drastically reduce the efforts required to perform this task.
We have built a utility to migrate the load of WFFM to Sitecore Forms, by minimizing the manual efforts.
Simultaneously providing you to other ways to customize the forms while migration.
SITECORE FORMS UTILITY
The migration process can be easily triggered within Sitecore, after configuring the utility
How to configure the tool
INSTALLATION
WFFM to Sitecore forms tool can be installed by following these steps: -
After installing the Sitecore package, you will see a context menu when you right click in Sitecore content editor mode.
CONFIGURATION/CUSTOMIZING
Many settings are predefined, so the tool will be ready to use immediately after installation.
Moreover, customizing of new Sitecore Forms is also very easy. You can customize below settings –
You can provide custom CSS classes for each and every field for a Sitecore Form.
A setting can also be enabled from the config, which will automatically add a “Mvc Form” rendering with data-source of newly created Sitecore form on every page, where old WFFM is being referred.
You can specify a default path where all the Sitecore Forms can be migrated. It can also be changed from the Editor window later on.
Migrating to Sitecore Forms –
Select “Create Sitecore Form” option from the context menu to start the process.
The progress for multiple forms can be tracked from the Sitecore form log file.
In case of any error, a respective message will be displayed on the front end and details will be logged in the Forms log file.
You can create forms at different locations, based on the logical architecture of your project.
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