Before starting
Across all features in Springly, you will be able to create custom fields.
For more information about creating fields, see:
Below you will find details of the types of custom fields you can add.
Field types
Types |
Description |
Text |
The text field allows you to store basic text, whether it be letters, numbers, punctuation, etc. We advise you to use this type of field to store short texts. If not, you should opt for a text area, explained below. |
Text area |
It is larger than the classic text field and is extendable. In this field, you can enter approximately 65,000 simple characters (letters from A to Z and numbers). Special characters (such as é ,è,', etc.) can take up the space of up to 4 simple characters. |
Text with suggested pre-saved values (Autocompletion) |
Pretty similar to the classic text field. The difference is that the software will store all the possible values that can be used. Thus, when a person is typing out their text, if a similar answer has already been filled out, this will appear as a suggestion. |
Numerical |
This field allows the user to answer with numerical values. We advise you to use this field if you have information in a number format, i.e. height in feet, number of donations, etc. This field will allow you to carry out optimized searches, where you can sort through profiles using this data by selecting: strictly greater than, greater or equal to, different from, between 2 values, etc. |
Multiple-choice |
The answers can be one or more of the values set up beforehand. For example, if you create an information field "favorite sport", you can add values as tennis, football, hockey. Then, people registering will only be able to choose from those. It is also possible to import them from Excel. Just make sure the values are in the same column in the Excel file, then copy & paste them into the according to the field. This field allows to do an advanced search: you can search within your CRM for contacts who have all/only one/none of the selected values. |
Drop-down list |
Similar to the multiple choice field, but only one value can be selected. If we take the previous example of the favorite sport, the registrant could only choose one sport from the list (either tennis, or football, or hockey, or another value from the list). |
Date |
This field allows contacts to enter dates in the format of DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY. It is not possible to store hours. Once the field is created, you can do advanced searches using the information gathered, by choosing from the following options: |
Documents to download |
This field can store documents that the registrants will have uploaded. You can then export these documents if you need to. This can be used for example for a medical certificate in our sports example. |
Other fields | Some other types of fields you can choose from include the email, phone, or internet address (URL). |
To optimize the search tool, the number of characters in text with suggested pre-saved values (autocompletion), text and email fields, is limited to 53. This should leave you plenty of space for your contacts to fill in all their information.
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