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Common Hosted Form Service (CHEFS) is a web-based application for creating web forms and managing collected data

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Features

A user-friendly, hosted service for teams to create and publish their own web forms. Some of CHEFS features include:

  • Drag and drop form fields into custom layouts
  • Manage multiple form versions
  • Export and re-use your form designs
  • Manage your team’s permissions to view and export form submission data

Learn more about the CHEFS features

Getting started and support

To start creating forms, you can watch a series of short videos on how to build your first form, or follow our Quick start guide. For more advanced questions CHEFS, please review our:

  • Creating forms - learn about some of the different features in CHEFS
  • Training Video - Watch an hour-long tutorial on how to use CHEFS. Note: We have updated CHEFS since May 2021. Follow our Product road map to stay up-to-date on all feature updates.
  • If you want to host your own version of CHEFS, please follow our CHEFS ReadMe

Cost

CHEFS is a free service that is available to all B.C. government employees and contractors.

Privacy and data storage

It's your responsibility is to comply with privacy laws governing the collection, use and disclosure of personally identifiable information.

Learn more about CHEFS privacy and data collection

Product development

Review our product roadmap to see what features are upcoming for CHEFS.

If you or your team is interested in contributing to the project. You can fork our code base and contribute new features. For more details, please see the CHEFS ReadMe to host your own.

Feature requests

Do you have a feature request for CHEFS? Post your ideas, leave a comment or vote on our Fider board. Your participation will help us decided on what to build next.

Contact us

You also can reach out to the CHEFS team directly at submit.digital@gov.bc.ca.

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