Creating a Banner or Announcement:

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You want to create a banner announcement that displays on your site and can be updated by submitting a form.

The general way to do this in Formidable Forms is to use a form to collect the announcement content and then create a View to display that entry on the front end.

Basic setup

  1. Create a form for your announcement content
    • Add fields like:
      • Announcement text
      • Title (optional)
      • Link/button text (optional)
      • Start/end date (optional)
  2. Submit an entry in that form
    • This entry will be the content source for your banner.
  3. Create a View using entries from that form
    • The documentation in the available results shows that Views are used when you want more control over how entries are displayed.
    • You can format the output like a banner using the View layout.
  4. Place the View on a page or template area where you want the banner to appear.

If you want only one current banner

Use a form with a single entry that you edit whenever the announcement changes, or display only the latest entry in the View.

If you want more styling control

The available documentation also indicates you can add classes and style the output to match your theme, which would work well for a banner layout.

Important note

I don’t have a specific step-by-step Formidable Forms doc for a banner announcement View in the results I found, only guidance that Views are the tool used to display form entries with custom formatting.

If you want, I can help you with a practical step-by-step example for this setup, such as:

  • single editable site-wide announcement banner
  • latest announcement banner
  • dated/expiring banner

You:Can the banner announcement have no entries and also have no default text, thus showing nothing on the site?

Formidable Forms – Chatbot:

Yes — if your View has no entries and you haven’t added any fallback/default text in the View content areas, it can effectively show nothing on the site.

A few things to keep in mind:

  • Any text added in Before Content can still appear even when there are no entries.
  • Any text added in the main content area is typically tied to displayed entries, so with no entries, nothing would display from that section.
  • If you want the banner hidden until an announcement is submitted, keep the View output limited to the entry content and avoid adding static text around it.

So for your banner announcement setup, yes — you can make it so that:

  • no form entry = no banner shown
  • entry added = banner appears

You want a single announcement banner that stays hidden until you add content.

Yes — a simple setup would be:

  1. Create a form for the banner

Add only the fields you need, for example:

  • Announcement text
  • Button/link text (optional)
  • Button/link URL (optional)
  1. Limit the form to one entry

Formidable supports limiting a form by the number of entries. Set the form to allow 1 entry so you can keep one current banner record.

  1. Create a View from that form

Create a View that uses entries from your banner form.

  • Put your banner HTML/content in the View’s main content area.
  • Keep Before Content empty if you want nothing to appear when there are no entries.
  1. Display only the existing entry

Use the View to show that single saved entry on the site where the banner should appear.

  1. Leave the form with no submission when you want no banner

If there’s no entry, and you haven’t added any static/default text around the View, the banner area can remain blank.

  1. Update the banner by editing or replacing the one entry

When you want an announcement to appear, submit or update the entry. When you want it gone, remove the entry so the View has nothing to display.

A couple of practical notes:

  • If you add any fixed text or wrapper content in the View outside the entry content, that may still appear even with no entries.
  • You can style the View output with your own CSS to make it look like a site-wide banner.

If you want, I can also give you a sample banner View layout you can paste in and adapt.

Formidable Forms – Chatbot:

Did that help you out?

You:yes please

Formidable Forms – Chatbot:

You’d like a sample View layout for a banner that stays hidden when there are no entries.

I can give you a practical example to adapt, but I don’t have a specific Formidable Forms documentation result that provides an official banner View template for this setup.

What I can confirm from your goal is this:

  • use a form as the content source
  • use a View to display that content
  • keep any static/default text out of the View if you want nothing to appear when there are no entries

A simple banner layout you could adapt in your View would be something like this:

html

<div class=”announcement-banner”>  <div class=”announcement-banner__text”>[25]</div>  <a class=”announcement-banner__button” href=”[26]”>[27]</a></div>

Example field idea:

  • [25] = announcement text
  • [26] = button URL
  • [27] = button text

If you only want the text, an even simpler version would be:

html

<div class=”announcement-banner”>[25]</div>

To keep it hidden until populated:

  • leave Before Content empty
  • do not add any fallback/default text
  • only display the View where you want the banner to appear
  • remove the entry when you want the banner gone