Using Web Form to create a simple survey in Portal (Dynamics 365)

Web Form are an extension of Entity Form, which can be used for Surveys, Registration or any wizard sort of interfaces etc. which could involve conditions and span across multiple entities.

To understand Web Form, let us create a simple Employee Exit Survey having 3 questions and 2 web form steps.

Basically, we have one Web Form which can have one or more than one Web Form Steps. Here we will use tabs within a single form for web form step (we can also use multiple forms as steps)

Let us first create a custom entity named Survey which we will use in Web Form having 2 Tabs Step 1 and Step 2, which we will use to define our Web Form Steps respectively.

Here each field/ attribute defined is one question in our Survey.

Using Web Form Metadata we can specify the label for the fields above and can do some formatting as well.

Below is our Web Form record –

Start Step is where we define the Web Form Step, which are similar to Entity Form.

Below is our First Step Web Form Step.

Type	Load Tab – as we are loading the tab here
Target Entity Logical Name	new_survery
Next Step	Second Step – the next web form step.
Mode	Insert – as we are creating the record
Form Name	Name of the form
Tab Name	Tab inside it

Also here we will create a related Web Form Step Metadata of type attribute to define the label for the field named new_firstquestion.

Let see the definition of the next Web Form Step i.e. Second Step

Mode	Edit – Here the mode is edit as the record will already be created in the first step and will be updated in this next step.
Move Previous Permitted	Allowing user to move back to the first step.
Next Step	Blank – so this will be the last step.
Source Type	Result From Previous Step
Entity Source Step	First Step – the previous step.