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title: "The 'Forms' Widget"
slug: "the-forms-widget"
updated: 2025-07-28T05:26:52Z
published: 2025-07-28T05:26:52Z
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.infoodle.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The 'Forms' Widget

The **Forms widget** provides some key benefits

**Show forms you want the user to use.**
![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/d198920d-a212-4177-85f9-e1abc92e7ab3/Images/Documentation/image-KL9IH9DF.png){height="" width=""}

The user will need to have "Need forms menu item" permissions in their role - but thats all.

You make a form available on this screen by editing the form itself and on the settings tab ensure the .. is ticked.

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/d198920d-a212-4177-85f9-e1abc92e7ab3/Images/Documentation/image-ODD3H5YX.png){height="" width=""}

**Link the form entry to the user**
You are encouraged to add the Person Safe ID field to your form. With this enabled - when the user clicks the 'view' button from the forms widget - infoodle 'knows' who is completing the form - and then will be able to link that with the [auto-approval](/v1/docs/form-auto-approval) process, or identify the right person in the [approval screen](/v1/docs/processing-form-entries).

**Usage**
When accessing forms this way - the user is not taken away from infoodle, the form is shown within the current screen making it feel a more natural process.