Getting started
This article outlines the basic steps to get started with Aidbox Forms
You can try the Aidbox Forms module, edit test forms, create new ones, see how the data will be saved to the database and extracted, for this you need to run the Aidbox Forms in Aidbox Sandbox. But all your changes will not be saved. To develop forms, you need to run the Aidbox Forms locally.
Run Aidbox Forms in Aidbox Sandbox
Create a license on Aidbox portal
Sign up on Aidbox portal
Create a license: product type - Aidbox, licence type - standard or development, hosting - in Cloud (for free)
Configure your project: select Aidbox SDC Forms
Start playing with Aidbox Forms
Go to Aidbox portal, find your license in the "Personal project licenses" list. Click on your new license and navigate to the "URL" link in the "Hosting" box.
Press the button
Formsin the Aidbox console in browserPlay with forms
This is only a sandbox with test forms, all your changes are not saved
Run Aidbox Forms locally
Create a license on Aidbox portal
Sign up on Aidbox portal
Create a license: product type - Aidbox, licence type - development, hosting - self-hosted
Copy & save a license key
Configure Aidbox project
You need to have the following software installed:
docker
docker-compose
text editor with color highlighting (recommended VSCode editor with
zen-lspplugin)any modern web-browser
git
make
npm
2. Run Aidbox locally
Run Aidbox locally with Docker3. Clone aidbox-zen-sdc repository
4. Configure project with a license. You need to create .env file in the root of repository (by copying from .env.tpl) and update AIDBOX_LICENSE with the generated license key that you saved
5. Run make init to initialize project
6. Run in the terminal make up in the root of repository
7. Open Aidbox console in browser http://localhost:8080/ , using login / password - admin / password
8. Go to forms by pressing the button Forms (or by visiting http://localhost:8080/ui/sdc )
9. To finish development you can run make down to shutdown all services.
You can edit zen files in zrc directory and they will be automatically reloaded
Start form designing
You have two options how to design form
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