Forms Table Functionality in Autodesk Build Forms

[ecaliskanYQUN8]

When creating a form template in Autodesk Build, there’s no option to add tables. Forms only allow question-by-question inputs, which is very limiting.

If I upload a PDF with tables, I still can’t copy and paste full tables into it — only one cell at a time, no option to paste multiple rows or columns. It’s not flexible and slows down workflows.

It would be great to have a built-in table tool in the form builder, with the ability to paste multiple rows/columns (like from Excel).

[felix.stauch]

Many of our current "paper" forms have tables on them. This is needed, since we often do not know how many entries are required when the form is filled. Currently we can only use the PDF workaround, which is not very dynamic. Data captured using the PDF-based ACC Forms is a nightmare to evaluate (e.g. using Insights or Power BI).

The ability to use a table in a native ACC Form would help us a lot and allow us to get rid of many legacy systems for data capturing on site. An ideal workflow would include the capability to freely define the columns that need to be captured. Additional features like data type validation or dropdowns would increase our data quality and create a strong pull for ACC Forms from our on site teams (since it is much easier and comfortable to capture data).

In an ideal world, we would be able to manage the available choices for some dropdowns on an account level. This way we have a central place to manage our master-data that can then be reused in different table columns.

[bkreader]

The new Table feature in Forms is a good step forward, but it's still too limited. First, each Form can only have four tables in it which is too few. Second, although the table appears as a table on the form, editing a row on the table just opens the old editor screen. Tables should be able to be edited as tables, not row by row.