Add an email address field to a form

Use the email field to provide a text box for respondents to enter their email address. For signed-in Warwick members, you can automatically populate the field with their @warwick.ac.uk email address.

Browse to the form you want to edit.
Go to Edit > Edit formsbuilder page:

Alternatively, select the Edit this form button at the top of the form:
Under Add text box, select Email field:
You see the Add/Edit email field screen:
In the Field name box, enter the name you want to use as the column heading in the form submissions table. For example:
```
Email address
```
Note: If you intend to use this form for online payments and offer email receipts to customers, use email for the Field label.
In the Label box, enter the instructions to display on the form - for example:
```
Enter your email address
```
If you don't specify a Label, the Field name displays on the form instead.
Choose a Width of the text box as a percentage of the page width. For example, 100% spans the entire page.
Optionally, in the Prefilled text box, enter a hint or example answer to help the respondent understand the information you're asking for. This text appears in the text box when the form loads.
Use the Populate with drop-down list to specify whether to auto-fill the field with a signed-in user's email address or leave it blank (select -----).
By default, the Label displays to the left of the text box. If you'd like to display the Label on top, select that checkbox.
Optionally, to display text for information only, select Read-only. Note that this will prevent signed-in respondents from entering an alternative email address.
To show the email field only to editors of submissions – and hide it from respondents – select Only visible to editors.
To make the email field mandatory – meaning the respondent must enter text before they can submit the form – select Required.
Select Require confirmation to ask respondents to enter their email address a second time to help minimise mistakes. If the email addresses do not match, the respondent is prompted to check their addresses and submit the form again.
Select an option from the Autocomplete drop-down list to control what kind of data will be suggested to users as they type in the email field.
When you're finished configuring the question, select Save.

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