# Add a form to a step
URL: https://docs.awellhealth.com/docs/design-care-flows/add-a-form-to-a-step

> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.awellhealth.com/llms.txt).





Forms are how a care flow collects data. This page covers the **form action on a step**: attaching one,
picking who fills it in, and removing it.

Building the form's questions is a separate job, covered in
[Build a form](/docs/design-care-flows/build-a-form).

## Add a form action [#add-a-form-action]

1. Double-click the step that should collect the data.
2. Click **Add action** and choose **Form**.
3. Name the form action.

<img alt="The Select Action dialog, with Form, Message, Checklist, Calculation and Clinical note grouped under Basic" src="__img0" />

Actions are grouped by kind. **Form**, **Message**, **Checklist**, **Calculation** and **Clinical note**
are built in; anything under Communication or Advanced comes from an installed extension.

Then in the form configuration:

* Pick an existing form from the dropdown, or choose **Add form** to build a new one.
* Choose the **stakeholder** who fills it in.

A colleague sees the action title on the canvas, so "Baseline patient-reported outcomes" beats
"Form 2".

## Check the shared library before building a new form [#check-the-shared-library-before-building-a-new-form]

Forms are shared across the organization, so the dropdown may already hold the right one: surveys,
questionnaires, feedback forms, and validated measures of patient-reported outcomes and experience.

Editing a shared form changes it in every care flow that uses it.

## Remove a form action [#remove-a-form-action]

1. Double-click the step.
2. Click **Edit**.
3. Click the trash icon.
4. Click **Done**.

This removes the form *action* from the step. The form itself stays in the organization's library for
other flows to use.

## Next steps [#next-steps]

**Next:** [Build a form](/docs/design-care-flows/build-a-form) to create the questions the action asks.