Each Woodpecker field has required and optional attributes. You will find some of them in all fields, and there are unique attributes related to specific fields.

​Field Name (required)

The name of your field can be anything that you want it to be. Numbers, text, special characters, anything!

Each Woodpecker field can be one of the ten field types.

You can specify guidance notes for a field that describes what the field does and what type of information should be entered into it. Guidance notes are useful for other people who will use your template or questionnaire.
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​Default (optional)

You can specify a default value for almost any Woodpecker field. If a field has a default value, and a custom value hasn’t been specified for the field, the field will be pre-populated with the default value whenever Woodpecker is launched.

For example, if you specified a default value of "Today" for a date field, whenever you launch Woodpecker your "Date" field would automatically be set to today's date. Woodpecker maintains a hierarchy for what values to pre-populate fields with when the app launches. Below is the order in which Woodpecker will pre-fill a field with a value:

• “Custom value” - any time you manually enter a value into a field, it will stick across subsequent launches of the app. To wipe a custom value, simply click the “Clear all” button at the bottom of the app.

• “Default value” - if there has been no “custom value” entered and the field has a default value specified, the field will be assigned its default value.

• “Blank” - if there is no “custom value” and no default value, the field will be blank.
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Note: not available for Image fields

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Date field:
• The "format" attribute allows you to select a date format. For example, you may want your date to appear as "March 1st, 2018" or to appear as "03/01/18".
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​Single select field:

• The "choices" attribute allows you to specify a predefined list of options that can be chosen from. The "choices" attribute gives you a set of input fields (as many as you want) to specify what choices should be available.
It is possible to rearrange the order of the choices when either creating a new field or editing an existing one. To do this, simply click on the icon to the left of a choice, and drag it to your desired location in the choices list, as shown below.
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​Multi select field:
• The "choices" attribute allows you to specify a predefined list of options that can be chosen from. The "choices" attribute gives you a set of input fields (as many as you want) to specify what choices should be available.
It is possible to rearrange the order of the choices when either creating a new field or editing an existing one. To do this, simply click on the icon to the left of a choice, and drag it to your desired location in the choices list, as shown below.
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​Conditional field:
• The "conditions" attribute allows you to specify a list of conditions (as many as you want) that dictate the value of the field. These conditions allow you to specify that the value for a "Conditional" field should be determined by the value of other fields within your document.
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​Formula field:
• The “formula” attribute allows you to specify an Excel-like formula based on your other Woodpecker fields
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• The "format" attribute allows you to select a number format. For example, you may want your number converted into currency and appear as 5,000.00.
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