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title: "Component form helpers"
date: "2019-04-25T14:14:52+00:00"
summary: "Streamline your component creation with form helpers. Learn to save, organize, and reuse form elements effortlessly. Boost productivity and maintain consistency in your component designs."
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Component form helpers allow you to save Component form field elements or groups of form field elements. These form helpers can be used again without having to rebuild them. You can think of helpers as an advanced copy and paste function.

Important

When a Component form helper is added to the Component form builder it turns back into form field Elements. If you change the Helper, it will not affect any Helpers that have already been added to the Component form builder.

Creating component form helpers directly from the component form builder
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You can save all or parts of your form as a Helper directly from your Component form builder. 

To save a Helper:

1.  Navigate to an existing component and click edit
2.  Scroll down to the Component form builder and click the **Options menu** and click on **Save as**
3.  In the modal, enter a name for your Component form helper in the **Title** field. A short descriptive name is recommended
4.  In the Category drop-down, select a category of Helper. This organises your Helpers into logical categories to help you find them
5.  Click **Save**.

Using your component form helpers
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You can use your Component form helpers to quickly add saved layouts to your Component form builder.

To use your Helpers:

1.  Click on the **\+ button** on the Component form builder to open the Sidebar browser
2.  Click on the **Dropdown icon** at the top of the Sidebar browser
3.  Select **Helpers** from the dropdown list
4.  Drag your Helper onto the Component form builder from the Sidebar browser
5.  When dropped, the Helper will turn back into the form Elements that it's made from.

Important

Component form helpers can only be used on the Component form builder and not on a Layout canvas.