Developer documentation

Developer documentation covers working with Umbraco Forms from a developer standpoint. It covers retrieving data, it shows how to extend the system by hooking into the provider model, and finally it describes the available events and workflows you can use to extend or integrate Umbraco Forms.

Preparing your Frontend

Before adding a form to your site we'll need to make sure you have the necessary client dependencies.

Rendering Forms scripts where you want

Control where you want Forms to render its JavaScript.

Themes

Easier & more control of rendering Form HTML markup and styling using Themes that replaces the previous methods in version 4.x

Custom markup

Write your forms your way. You have full control over your form's HTML markup and styling.

Creating custom HTML emails

Version 6.0.0+ - Send custom HTML email templates using the new workflow 'Send email with template (Razor)'.

Working with Record data

See how you can fetch and display record data from your Razor macros.

Extending

Learn how you can extend Umbraco Forms with your own custom providers.

Configuration

Learn about some of the configuration options that are available to you to modify how Umbraco Forms works.

Magic strings

Learn about the magic string formats that Umbraco Forms supports, that can retrieve information from various sources such as Session, Cookies, Umbraco Page Fields, Member fields, Form fields to use in workflows.

Storing Form Files with IFileSystem

Version 4.4.0+ - Learn how you can implement a custom IFileSystem to store the Forms, Workflows, PreValues and other JSON-based files to suit your needs.