Simple form builder

Question

I want to allow website managers(editors) to build custom forms:

• Editors should be able to create a form with a few text fields and specify the recipient emails.
• Form should send email with fields content
• The forms should be simply managed
• The forms submissions should be stored and listed in backend.

Currently there are few options, but none of them can be used by website managers. See the reasons below:

Contact module (core):

1. I do not want to allow editors to manage entity fields, it is overhead.
2. The module exports forms as a configuration.

Webform

1. The UI is too complex for editors. There are a lot of available fields, some pages and settings like access, ajax usage and additional logic.
2. The module exports forms as a configuration.

Eform (Entity form) is unsupported.

Currently we trying to do it with webform. We are trying to hide the unnecessary settings with form alter :-D Also we are trying to avoid webforms configuration export/import.

How do you create form builders for website managers(editors)?

Answer 1

I am the guy that created the complex Webform UI. For my clients, I disable any unneeded elements, handlers, and exporters. I also use hook_form_alter() to hide (via #access: FALSE) any feature that is not needed. I also have people create forms from Templates which have form behaviors and email handling preconfigured. You can also use hook_webform_create() to define reasonable defaults.

People are using the Config Split module to manage webforms (and blocks) configuration.

BTW, one day I hope someone will sponsor a Webform sub-module that allows site administrators to pick and choose which Webform features and element properties should be available to site builders.