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Forms & intake

Forms are a structured way to take requests in. A submitted form creates a ticket or a work item automatically, so intake flows straight into the queue your team already works.

What a form is

A form has a name, a public slug, and a target:

  • Ticket — submissions open a support ticket (optionally on the customer portal).
  • Task — submissions create a work item in a chosen project.

A form can be published (live) or a draft, and portal-enabled so it appears on your customer portal.

Fields and branching

Each form is built from fields. A field has a key, a label, a kind (text, textarea, select, checkbox, date, number, or email), and a required flag; select fields carry their options.

Forms support branching — show-if rules that reveal a field only when an earlier answer matches. This keeps forms short while still collecting the right detail for each kind of request.

On submit

When a form is submitted, ActionConnect:

  1. Records the submission (the full payload).
  2. Creates the configured ticket or task.
  3. Remembers which entity the submission created, so you can trace any item back to the intake that produced it.

A starter Contact Support form is seeded into every new organization so the portal has a working intake form on day one.

Tips

  • Use branching to keep forms short and relevant.
  • Send intake to a task form when requests should become project work, and a ticket form when they need a support response.
  • Combine forms with Automations to route or triage new submissions the moment they arrive.

ActionConnect documentation — kept in sync with the product as features land.