Forms: Layout and Appearance

The form designer's Style tab now exposes a Layout section with Classic, Banner, and Full options, plus a new Appearance section for background color and button styling. Service desk intake forms can wear corporate branding, GRC attestation forms can use full-bleed hero imagery, and HR onboarding forms can match team-specific color treatments without leaving the form designer.
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Key highlights

• Three Layout Options: Classic (form on a colored background, default), Banner (configurable banner image above the form with brightness and reposition), Full (edge-to-edge banner imagery, no reposition).
• Banner Image Controls: Standard Assets Library for image selection, 0 to 100 percent brightness slider (default 50 percent), and real-time canvas preview. Banner layout also supports image repositioning within the banner area.
• Background Color Control: New Appearance setting controls the form's background color from the standard SmartSuite palette or a custom value. Defaults to the Solution color. Rendered only when Layout is not Full.
• Button Color Control: Same palette plus custom picker controls the Submit and Next button color. Defaults to the Solution color for consistent solution-level brand inheritance.
• Internal Form Defaults: Classic layout is always applied to internal forms opened as a side panel, so Banner and Full are reserved for publicly-shared and full-page variants where hero imagery makes sense.
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How it works

• Open the Style tab on any form in the designer and find the new Layout section in the left side panel.
• Pick Classic, Banner, or Full. The form canvas updates in real time to show the selected layout.
• For Banner or Full, click the banner area to open the Assets Library modal; pick an image, adjust the brightness slider, and (Banner only) drag the image within the banner area to reposition.
• Open the Appearance section to set Background Color (palette plus custom picker) and Button color; both default to your Solution color.
• Save the form. The selected Layout and Appearance treatments apply to the publicly-shared and full-page variants; internal side-panel forms continue to use Classic.
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Pair this with the rest of the Forms 2.0 work shipping this year, including Multi-Page Forms, Progress Bar, Enhanced Submission Page, and the New Forms Page.