WS Form

WS Form is one of the plugins NIBWP turns into a set of typed, agent-callable tools. Activate WS Form, switch the integration on, and an agent can build and run your forms through the same secure MCP endpoint as everything else.

Building a form is structural work: fields in sections, sections in tabs, and then the part everyone forgets — the actions that decide whether a submission reaches anybody. A form without them collects data and notifies nobody, which looks like success until someone asks where the enquiries went.

Your forms, programmable

Connecting WS Form to your agents changes what is possible with it:

• Whole forms in one call — Read a working form as JSON, adapt it, and create the next one from that — faster and more correct than building field by field.
• Actions covered — Email, webhooks and the rest. This is the part that decides whether a submission is acted on, and it is the part most automation skips.
• The real layout tree — Fields live in sections, sections in tabs. Multi-step forms are just more than one tab.
• Submissions and exports — List, read, star, mark read, change status, and export as rows or CSV with the headers WS Form itself would use.
• Styles and templates — Style a form once and reuse it, or start from a template instead of an empty canvas.
• Deletion kept apart — Every irreversible operation sits behind its own tool and asks for confirmation. Trashing does not, because putting something back should never be the harder option.

The tools

Fourteen abilities, grouped by what they touch:

Building a form that works

The order that avoids an empty shell:

1. Start from something real — wsform-templates, or read an existing form with wsform-json and adapt it.
2. Check the vocabulary — wsform-config lists the field types this edition actually offers.
3. Build the structure — Tabs, then sections, then fields — a field cannot exist without a section to live in.
4. Add the actions — wsform-actions. Without one, the form collects submissions and tells nobody.
5. Style it — wsform-styles, reusing a style the site already has where one fits.
6. Check the submissions — wsform-submissions and wsform-export once real entries arrive.

Worth knowing

Submission data is personal data — read what the task needs and do not copy it somewhere it was not collected for. Exports are paginated on purpose, so a form with thousands of entries returns something usable instead of failing slowly. WS Form 1.12 also registers abilities of its own under a different namespace; both sets can be live at once without colliding.

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