template forms in prismic - prismic.io

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I'm new to prismic and trying to figure out if this is right tool for what I need. I need to create multiple form templates. I want prismic user to be able to build out the template, which will get loaded into gatsby where each field will get built out as components based on a title, type, action, name.
Title will be the title or label.
type will be the type of form element, ex: input, button, radio action,
if its a button the action it needs to do.
name the name for the form element.
Does prismic seem like a good candidate for this and does anyone know of any examples of how I might go about setting up the prismic end. Most of what Ive seen so far is full pages with just title and images. Not exactly forms.
In their repository I only see these options to create elements am I missing some important ones ?
Title
Rich Text
Image
Content Relationship
Link
Link to Media
Date
Timestamp
color
number
key text
Select
Embed
GeoPoint
Group
How would I go about creating form elements, Is there a way to create custom objects to export? Every time I try to add a new filed or a custom object to the json editor it says. Unrecognized, property it will be ignored.
I'd like to be able to use the group to group a bunch of form elements together even if they are just custom objects that I can pass custom properties to so when I load the group into React I can use the custom properties to build out my components ?? Can anyone set me straight here on if this is possible using prismic.
Thanks!

Answer 1

I can't say if Prismic is the best tool for this particular job, but i think you're overestimating what exactly you need in order to render a html form.
Consider the following custom type. It really only consists of titles, structured texts, a repeatable zone and a select. What you do with that data is completely up to you on the front end.
{
"Main": {
"uid": {
"type": "UID",
"config": {
"label": "Form UID",
"placeholder": "Form UID"
}
},
"form_title": {
"type": "StructuredText",
"config": {
"single": "heading2",
"label": "Form Title",
"placeholder": "Form Title"
}
},
"action_title": {
"type": "StructuredText",
"config": {
"single": "heading2",
"label": "action title",
"placeholder": "Submit form"
}
},
"form_action_description": {
"type": "StructuredText",
"config": {
"single": "paragraph",
"label": "form action description",
"placeholder": "form action description"
}
},
"success_message": {
"type": "StructuredText",
"config": {
"single": "paragraph",
"label": "success message",
"placeholder": "success message"
}
},
"error_message": {
"type": "StructuredText",
"config": {
"single": "paragraph",
"label": "error message",
"placeholder": "error message"
}
},
"submit_button_text": {
"type": "StructuredText",
"config": {
"single": "paragraph",
"label": "submit button text",
"placeholder": "submit"
}
},
"body": {
"type": "Slices",
"fieldset": "Slice zone",
"config": {
"choices": {
"test": {
"type": "Slice",
"fieldset": "Form Section",
"description": "Section of a form",
"icon": "vertical_align_center",
"display": "list",
"non-repeat": {
"form_section_title": {
"type": "StructuredText",
"config": {
"single": "heading1",
"label": "Form Section title",
"placeholder": "Form Section title"
}
},
"form_section_description": {
"type": "StructuredText",
"config": {
"single": "paragraph",
"label": "Form Section Description",
"placeholder": "Form Section Description"
}
}
},
"repeat": {
"label": {
"type": "StructuredText",
"config": {
"single": "paragraph",
"label": "label",
"placeholder": "label"
}
},
"type": {
"type": "Select",
"config": {
"options": [
"text",
"textarea",
"checkbox",
"radio",
"submit"
],
"default_value": "text",
"label": "type"
}
},
"name": {
"type": "StructuredText",
"config": {
"single": "paragraph",
"label": "name",
"placeholder": "name"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}