How-To Guides
A wide selection of walkthrough guides to help you use, navigate, and manage your Knack account
Add Functionality to Your Live App
App Walkthroughs
- How to Create a Class Catalog & Enrollments App
- Getting Started Guide: Building Your Education App
- How to Build an Inventory Manager App
- How to Build a Task Management App
- How to Build a Map Directory or Store Locator App
- How to Build a Quiz App
- How to Build a Member Directory App
- How to Build an Orders App
- How to Setup a Start/Stop Timer Guide
Customize Views
Forms
- How to Add Read-Only Fields to a Form
- How to Create a Multi-Part Form
- How to Add Instructions to a Form
- How to Allow Users to Add New Options in Forms
- How to Automatically Capture a User’s Location on a Form
- How to Change the Layout of Forms
- How to Create Dynamic Dropdowns in Forms
- How to Customize the Text on a Submit Button
- How to Use URL Variables to Pre-Populate a Form
Image & Files
Logic, Equations, & Formulas
- Equation Types & Logic
- Calculations & Logic
- How to Include Connected Values in Equations
- How to Calculate the Numeric Week of the Year from a Date
- How to Automatically Generate Expiration Dates/End Dates
- How to Extract the Start and End Dates from a Date/Time Field
- Calculate Age in Years from a Birthday
- How to Create Discount Codes
- How do I create a field that always displays today's date?
- Display a Message When a Deadline is Approaching
- Generate Simple Numeric Barcodes Automatically
- How to Display Multiple Date Formats Using a Single Date Field
- How do I create an "If, Then" or conditional equation?
- How to Number Line Items
- How to Set a Random ID
- Start an Auto Increment Field from Any Number