Form Groups

Form groups help you organise forms in the control panel. They are useful when you manage many forms and want sidebar filters, clearer navigation, and a consistent place to create new forms.

Form groups are control panel organisation with an optional policies layer for defaults and restrictions. They do not change how a form renders on the front end, which template an existing form uses, or how existing submissions behave until you change form settings.

Group settings

When editing a form group under Formie → Settings → Form Groups, you can configure optional group settings across several tabs:

• General — name, handle, and allowed submission statuses
• Field Palette — optional custom palette (toggle on tab; inherits global when off)
• Form Defaults, Field Defaults, Validation Messages, Notification Defaults, Integration Defaults — same panels as global Settings → Defaults, with blank values inheriting from global settings

Blank group settings inherit from global Formie → Settings defaults.

Site policy (multi-site)

On multi-site Craft installs, each group can restrict which sites forms in the group exist on, and how new forms propagate across those sites. Configure this under the General tab → Site Policy (Enabled Sites and Site Propagation).

See Multi-Site & Translation for how availability differs from content translation, propagation modes, and form builder behaviour.

Allowed submission statuses

Use the Allowed Submission Statuses control in General to restrict which statuses are available for forms in the group. Choose All to allow every status. This policy applies to all forms in the group; individual forms cannot override it.

Custom field palette

Open the Field Palette tab and enable Use custom field palette. Forms in this group use that palette instead of the global one. When disabled, the group inherits the global palette from Settings → Fields.

Submission limits

Submission limits are configured per form, not at the group level. A form group does not enforce a shared entry cap across all of its forms.

If your group often uses per-user or per-IP limits, preset Collect User or Collect IP on the group Form Defaults tab so new forms inherit the privacy settings those limits rely on.

Global abuse throttling lives under Settings → Spam Protection and applies site-wide — it is separate from form submission limits.

When to use form groups

Form groups are especially helpful when:

• several teams each own a set of forms
• you want sidebar filters instead of one long forms list
• you create new forms into a known bucket by default

If you only have a handful of forms, you can skip groups entirely. The forms index works fine with just All forms.

Managing groups

Create and manage groups under Formie → Settings → Form Groups.

Each group has:

• a name
• a handle
• a sort order

Groups are stored in project config, so they can travel with the project across environments like statuses and stencils. Form group UIDs are used in the forms index source keys (group:{uid}), so sidebar filters stay stable after a database sync.

Forms index

When at least one group exists, the forms index sidebar shows:

• All forms
• a Groups heading with one source per group
• Ungrouped for forms with no group assigned

When no groups exist, only All forms is shown.

Creating a new form

On All forms or Ungrouped, the New Form button works like Craft’s entries and categories indexes: you can pick which group the new form should belong to from the split-button menu.

When you are already viewing a specific group, the primary New Form action creates a form in that group. Use the menu to pick a different group if needed.

New forms created from a group source are pre-assigned to that group. You can change the group later in the form builder Settings tab.

Assigning and moving forms

Assign a group per form in the form builder Settings tab. The setting is hidden when no groups exist or when editing a stencil.

On the forms index, use the Move to group bulk action to move one or more forms into a group or back to Ungrouped.

Submissions index

When groups exist, the submissions index sidebar groups forms under their form group headings, with an Ungrouped section only when ungrouped forms are visible.

Form templates

Form templates control front-end rendering. They are separate from form groups. The forms index no longer groups forms by template; use form groups for CP organisation and templates for rendering.