Ask HN: I am building a form management dashboard, what features should I add?

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I am working on one stop shop for some commons forms that people regularly fill out. I am building a management/admin dashboard in the backend and I was wondering if anyone who handles forms regularly has some features, functions or nifty tools I could add to the dashboard outside of the usual print, export to database, sort, reply etc.

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1) validation (length, null, alphanumeric, alphanumericanduppercase, etc.) common elements (date, phone number, email [allows for + e.g. whatever+label@gmail.com is a valid email], country [supply full list - https://gist.github.com/Keeguon/2310008], states

2) Common Forms - contact us (name, email message) - contact (name, phone, email) Use basic types (number, string, date)

3) Install/Embed - 1 line of JS e.g. <script src="http://www.domain.com/form.js"></script>

4) Export to CSV, JSON, Excel

5) s3 integration (append to file)- (upload file)

Good Luck - Hope that helps :)

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