Forms allow you to make a template that needs one or more pieces of information supplied to run. You can build these directly using raw XML, but I find it simpler to build a simple dashboard and then modify the XML accordingly. The other option is to copy an existing dashboard and modify it to meet your needs. We will touch on a simple use case in the following section.
Building forms
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