Settings Tab (Overview)

Designer › Settings

The Settings tab holds the options that apply to the whole form: which features are on, how the form behaves for users, emails, PDF export, external access and more.

To open it, open your form in the Sintel Apps designer and select Settings in the top bar. The menu on the left jumps to each section. Changes take effect when you save the form.

Some settings are part of a licence (marked 🔑 below). If your licence doesn't include one, the section shows a message with a View license information link, and its settings are greyed out.

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Features

Turn the main parts of the form on or off.

Setting	What it does
Sintel Forms	On: Sintel Apps replaces the standard SharePoint new, edit and display forms of the list. Off: SharePoint's own forms are used, and external access stops working. The form is built in the Layout tab
Logic	Rules you build in the Logic tab. Off: rules don't run in the form
Workflow	Statuses and actions you build in the Workflow tab. Off: workflows aren't processed for any item

When a feature is off, its tab stays in the designer with a note that the feature is off and a link back to Settings.

List settings

These change settings of the SharePoint list behind the form.

Setting	What it does
Display on the Quick Launch	Shows the list in the site navigation
Version history	SharePoint keeps track of changes to items

Attachments

Setting	What it does
Enable attachments	Items can have attachments
Restrict attachment file types	Only the file extensions you list in Allowed file extensions can be attached. Type an extension (for example pdf) and press Enter. The dot and capital letters don't matter: pdf, .PDF and .pdf are the same. Only the last part of a file name counts, so report.pdf.zip is a .zip file
Attachment size limit	Files larger than Maximum attachment size (MB) are rejected. You can set 1 to 250 MB. Without a limit, files up to 250 MB can be attached

If you turn on Restrict attachment file types and leave the list empty, no files can be attached.

For every form, empty files and files with names longer than 255 characters are rejected. People see why, for example File type is not allowed. or File is too large.

Form viewer

How the form behaves for the people who fill it in.

Setting	What it does
Actions menu behavior	When the Actions menu shows: Show always, Hide if no actions or Always hidden. See Actions Menu Behavior
Concurrent access	Whether several users can edit the same item at the same time. Off by default. See Concurrent Access
After save/action redirect to	Where users go after Save and Close or a workflow action. See After save/action redirect to
After close redirect to	Where users go after they select Close. See After close redirect to
Copy values icon	Adds a copy icon to fields, so users can copy a value to the clipboard

Both redirect settings offer the same choices, for example back to the list, the same item again, or a page you choose. The two articles linked above explain them.

🔑 PDF export

Setting	What it does
PDF export	Users can download an item as a PDF
Mode	Portrait for standard documents, Landscape for wide content
Page numbering	Adds page numbers to the PDF

See PDF Export.

Conversations

Setting	What it does
Conversations	Users can read and post comments on items. External users don't see them

See Conversations.

Workflow history

How the workflow history is shown to users.

Setting	What it does
Display relative dates	Shows dates such as "2 days ago" instead of the date and time, in the Workflow History widget and in the workflow history panel
Display statuses only	The workflow history panel lists only status changes, without the actions users ran. For a Workflow History widget, use its own Display as property instead

Email notifications

Setting	What it does
Notifications	Off: the form sends no emails, neither to your users nor to external users. This includes workflow emails and emails about @mentions in conversations. One-time verification codes for external users are still sent
🔑 Outgoing email sender	Send emails from Sintel Apps (Default Sintel Apps) or from one of your own addresses set up in the Admin panel. See Custom Emails

After save script

Setting	What it does
After save script	Runs your script on the server after each save, for example to build a reference number from the item ID. Write it in the Script box

See After save script.

🔑 External access

Let people outside your organisation, with no access to SharePoint, use the form. The full guide is in External Access & Sharing.

Setting	What it does
Access mode	None: no external access. Anonymous Submission: anyone with the link can submit a new item. External Collaboration: external users give their email address to get access, and can create and edit their own items
External form link	The link to share with external users. It appears when you choose Anonymous Submission or External Collaboration. Save the form before you share it. Select the copy icon to copy it

🔑 External sharing

Setting	What it does
External sharing	Your users can share a single item with an external person. Works with any Access mode

External form behaviour

Setting	What it does
After external save redirect to	Where external users go after they save. Leave it empty to show the standard confirmation page
Captcha	People submitting a new item complete a captcha when they save. We recommend leaving it on
People pickers behaviour	How people fields look to external users, separately for New forms and Existing forms: Hidden, Disabled (shown, read-only) or Enabled. People pickers can show information about your users, so they are hidden by default
Widget visibility	Whether external users see the Workflow history widget: Hidden or Visible

Confirmation email

Setting	What it does
New item submission confirmation email to author	Sends the external user an email after they create an item. On by default, with a ready-made Subject and Body that you can change. Only for External Collaboration

Sharing invitation email

Setting	What it does
Invitation email	Sends the external person an email with a link to the shared item. On by default, with a ready-made Subject and Body that you can change. Needs External sharing

Confirmation screens

Show your own message after an item is saved, with Save, Save and Close or a workflow action.

Setting	What it does
Confirmation screen for new forms	Shown after a new item is saved
Confirmation screen for existing forms	Shown after an existing item is saved

Write the message in Confirmation screen content. Type {{ to insert values from the item, for example {{ID}}. Select Preview to see the result. See Confirmation Screens.

Admin

• License information: select View license information to see your licence and the features it includes. See License Information.
• Upgrade from Sintel Forms: for forms made with the older Sintel Forms product. See Upgrade from Sintel Forms.