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The short version. Twenty field types. Pick the most specific one that fits — a specific field type gives you data you can add up later, where a text box gives you a paragraph nobody can total.
This is desk work. Build templates on a computer, not in a truck.

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The twenty field types

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Quantity, not Number

This is the one that bites. Number stores 12. Quantity stores 12 CY. Six months later, when you’re totalling concrete across 40 daily logs, a column of bare numbers is useless because nobody knows which ones were yards and which were loads. Use Quantity whenever there’s a unit.

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Build it in a sensible order

1

Write down what the form is for

One purpose per form. “Daily log” and “safety inspection” are two forms, not one.
2

Lay out the sections first

Use section headers to block it out before you add fields. A wall of thirty fields doesn’t get filled in properly.
3

Add fields, most specific type first

Reach for Text last, not first.
4

Set per-field permissions

Who has to fill it in, who can see it, who can change it.→ Field settings
5

Test it on a phone before you publish

Fill it out yourself, outside, with gloves on if that’s the job. Then publish.

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Field settings

Keep labor rates off the foreman’s copy.

Scope and versions

Global vs. This Project, Draft vs. Published.