How to add required fields to PDF forms

Benjamin André-Micolon

You have PDF forms but your users are not filling every field and you are now getting incomplete submissions, requiring unecessary back-and-forth.

Look no further for a solution: you landed in the right place! Adding required fields in SimplePDF is very easy.

Configuring document fields in SimplePDF

Required fields

1. Log in in to your account
2. Edit a specific document or create a new one in the Your forms

3. Click on the Fields tab and look for the field to mark as required

4. Click the Update form button
5. That's it! The field is now required and your users will be required to fill it in before submitting!

An example of a required field

Fields with default values

Fields can have a default value: just toggle Default value after having filled the field. When loading the form, the value for that field will be pre-filled with a default value.

Read only fields

Fields with default value can be marked as read only: useful when you want to prefill information that does not need filling but yet needs to be present on the document.