Deftform Changelog

Today's update includes a new "Address" field and some subtle improvements.

New "Address" element

It's now possible to add an address element to your form, which will generate various address-based fields like "Street Address," "City," "Zip Code," and more.

You can enable and disable fields individually to display only the ones important for your needs. Additionally, you can enable autocomplete, allowing visitors to search for their address and have the fields auto-filled.

The new "Address" element is documented here.

Improvements

We also implemented a few minor improvements in the backend. For example, the "Element" selector, which is shown when adding a new field or element to a form, has been restructured.

At some point, we plan to add a search feature as well.

Additionally, we improved the PDF export feature. It will now respect the widths you set for each field. Before the change, all fields in the PDF export were placed in a new row, even when your layout had different sizes for individual fields, such as a 50/50 layout.

Today, we shipped an update to improve accessibility on public-facing forms. We followed general guidelines and best practices and ran tests through multiple tools to ensure no critical issues were left.

Additionally, as a form admin, you now have the ability to add various aria-* attributes such as aria-label, aria-describedby, and more. New field options were added to the general form settings, as well as to each individual field setting.

Please let us know if there was any oversight on our end, and we will gladly make it right.

Four days ago, one of our CDN providers was experiencing DNS issues, see here: https://status.bunny.net/incidents/j1syhng2crfy

This was causing an issue with the SSL certificate for the CDN URL we were using. We reported the issue with our CDN domain shortly after. Their suggested fix was to re-issue the SSL certificate.

Unfortunately, some of our customers still reported issues with files using the CDN domain. Because of that, we now switched the domain from df-cdn.com to userdata.deftform.com, which should fix the issue as the "userdata" domain is managed by Cloudflare.

Sorry again for the inconvenience.

Today, we released a minor update to further improve our AI-assisted form builder. First, we set a limit of 20,000 characters for the prompt to ensure a reasonable response time. We also increased the timeout window allowed for the AI to respond. Additionally, in case a request still fails, we have added an "Edit Prompt" button. This way, you're not stuck if the first request fails.

Missing images and SSL error

In the past two days, some customers experienced issues with uploaded images not being displayed when viewing forms. This issue was likely related to an incident with one of our CDN providers. Resolving the issue may have taken longer due to DNS change propagation. We have issued a new SSL certificate for the CDN domain and hope this is now resolved for all our customers.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Today's update includes maintenance, fixes and improvements.

New options for phone field

The phone field has been updated with additional options. It is now possible to disable the automatic country lookup. This was a big request from privacy concerned customers as a visitor's IP address is used to determine the location and pre-select the phone country dropdown.

Additionally, it is now possible to set a default country by specifying its ISO2 code, e.g. "us" for the United States, or "de" for Germany. You can now also define a list of allowed countries. For example, you can enter "de, fr, es" and the country selection will only show Germany, France and Spain.

Fix for custom ALTCHA label

We fixed an issue where custom texts for ALTCHA protection weren't correctly applied and the default english versions "I'm not a robot" and "Verified" were used. If you defined a custom text in the workspace settings, it will now show correctly again. Thanks for reporting.

In addition to the mentioned updates, we fixed a couple of smaller bugs and updated the underlying software to their latest version.

Today's update is mostly a maintenance update but we also fixed and improved a few things.

Fixes

• ALTCHA captcha does not have a white background by default anymore
• Fixed an issue that sometimes occurred when deleting a domain
  
• Fixed a z-index issue that prevented people from deleting their accounts

In addition to upgrading the underlying software and fixes, we added a theme option for the Turnstile captcha. By default, "auto" is used, using the viewers' OS preference. You can also force "white" or "dark" mode.

We also added a new font called "Be Vietnam Pro" that can be used for custom styles.

Today, we released a feature that many of our customers were eagerly awaiting: the ability to track incomplete submissions.

Within the form settings, administrators can now find an option to "Track incomplete submissions". This feature is disabled by default to prevent clutter, but it can be enabled on a per-form basis. Incomplete submissions are displayed as a yellow line in the "Responses" view.

Minor UI and UX improvements

We also optimized a few smaller things across the backend area. For example, the button to add a new element to a form is more prominent. It's also a bit more clearer (hopefully) what to click to contact support.

Additionally, if you are selling products via Stripe, we now fetch product images and display them on the form. To synchronize these images, simply save your form settings once with "Enable form checkout" active.

Today, we released a quick fix for our ALTCHA captcha solution. We've received several reports indicating that the verification checkbox was not displaying correctly, preventing respondents from submitting a form.

This issue only occurred in forms that had "ALTCHA" set for CAPTCHA protection, and oddly enough, it wasn't an issue in every browser.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for reporting.

Just a small update today to let you know that we have added support for additional fields that can be used as context in emails and on "Thank You" pages.

The newly supported fields are:

• Single Choice
• Dropdown
• Country

We updated the documentation to reflect these additional fields.

Today, we added support for pre-filling fields when using embedded forms. It's a small update, but we're sure many of our customers will appreciate that this feature is finally available.

We've added a new attribute called data-form-prefill that must be included and populated in the embed script. Our help articles have been updated accordingly. Please feel free to check them out:

• How to embed a form into my website?
• Pre-fill fields via url parameter

Have a nice weekend.

Today's update includes system maintenance, bug fixes, performance improvements, and feature additions.

Fix/improvement for time-based closing of forms

We have improved the handling of closing forms that have a "Close at" date defined. Previously, when a data was set, the form would close at midnight German time (where our servers are located). We now respect the timezone that is set in the workspace settings.

Option to disable sending emails to respondents

Ever since we launched the "Email" field, it was possible to toggle a checkbox that would determine if a confirmation email should be sent to the respondent, it's documented here. This toggle also defines the "reply-to" address to emails sent to admins.

We now added a new toggle "Send confirmation emails", which is enabled by default. When disabled, we won't send an email to the respondent, but the field itself will still be considered the email field internally, meaning the "reply-to" remains and any connections relying on this (e.g. the HubSpot sync) will work just fine. The new toggle only defines if respondents should actually receive a confirmation email.

Custom target for links

We added support for link targets for workspace links.

When creating or editing a global workspace link, you can now change the target to either "blank" (default), "parent", "self" or "top". This can be useful for embedded forms. Before the change, every link would automatically open in a new tab ("blank")

Country select based on workspace locale

When setting a locale in the workspace settings, the country dropdown now shows the list of countries in that locale. So when your workspace is set to "Germany", the dropdown will now show all countries in German language, eg. "Deutschland" instead of "Germany".

Stored values will also change based on that. So if your automation relies on the English values (the way it was before), be aware of that. This only applies if your workspace locale was changed to anything other than "English".

Today, we're happy to introduce two new field types: time picker and slider.

Time picker

While it was already possible to create a time picker, it was only possible in combination with the date picker. There are many use-cases where these two elements need to be separated, or where a data is not required.

With the standalone time picker, you can define the time format (12 hours or 24 hours). You can set the interval between the displayed time options by setting the "Interval" option to a number of minutes. The default is 30 minutes. You can also restrict the selectable times by setting minimum and maximum boundaries and also unavailable times.

Slider

The "Slider" element allows you to implement a single or range slider.

Available options are "Min", "Max", "Steps", "Default value", and "Range." Handling-wise, it's pretty straightforward as you simply need to drag the handle(s) to either side.