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Your First Form

42Forms supports three ways to create a project: from scratch, from a CSV/Excel file, or from a Snowflake table. This guide walks through the Snowflake table approach - the most common for existing data.

Create a Project

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  1. Click New Project from the home page
  2. Choose Snowflake Table as the data source
  3. Select your Snowflake connection, then browse to the target table
  4. 42Forms uses Cortex AI to analyze the table structure and generate an optimized form layout
  5. Review the generated form and click Create

Understanding the Generated Form

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42Forms automatically:

  • Groups related columns into sections
  • Detects field types (Text, Numeric, Date, Select, Checkbox)
  • Identifies primary key columns for row identification
  • Creates select dropdowns for low-cardinality columns
  • Sets up column mappings between form fields and Snowflake columns

Browse Submissions

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Your project now shows a submission table with rows from the Snowflake source table. These are virtual submissions: the data lives in Snowflake and is only materialized locally when you edit a row.

Edit a Submission

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Click any row to open the form view. Edit field values and they auto-save after 2 seconds of inactivity. The first edit on a virtual row materializes it - creating a local copy with full audit trail.

Next Steps

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