Form Style

Create Your Form

Create your form
- Copy an existing form that best matches what you want,
- Consult Springshare's LibWizard Help (we currently use version 2),
- And/or contact the Library's Digital Services Team
Under "Form Options", select "Page Header"
1. Change "Page Header Type" to Use a custom page header for this form
2. Under "Form Header Text" type the title of your form
Select "Share / URL"
1. Check Do NOT Display Banner Header
2. Copy the Embed Widget Code

From your homepage, click "Create Guide"
Copy the *Form Template guide
Rename the guide to the title of your form, click "Create Guide"
Make the 2 boxes ("Form Content" and "Form Not Working?") floating (which hides the title)
In the Form Content box, under "Add / Reorder," select "Media / Widget"
Name the widget: Form: [Title of Your Form] (ex. "Form: Interlibrary Loan Form")
Paste the embed code copied from LibWizards into the Embed Code field, click "Save"
Change the URL to a friendly URL
Change the page name from [Form Title] to your actual form title (e.g. "Interlibrary Loan Form")
Publish the guide (use the friendly URL anywhere you want people to access the form)

Select Bank
Choose 1 of 5 colored headings (Heading - Blue, Heading - Gray, Heading - Green, Heading - Light Red, or Heading - Yellow)
Customize header as desired

At the bottom of each section, add spacer.

Visually group related labels and fields.

form sections grouped

Only include fields that:

Can’t be found another way (e.g. don't ask instructors where their class is located in a form, since that can be found via Course Search)
Can’t be collected conveniently at a later date (e.g. don't ask instructors for lesson plan details in a form when you can find those out in later interactions)
Are necessary to process the request (e.g. don't ask instructors if they are full-time or adjunct in an instruction request form)

Don't include placeholder text (put instructions on a label, instead):