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The following section will show you where to access forms in your Islandora installation, and how to clone and edit a form, and associate it with a content model. This section is for people who do not have knowledge of XPath, and covers only minimal configuration options. If you are more familiar with XPath, and XML, then we suggest that you go straight to the section on creating custom ingest forms, which provides a more technical overview of the interface, as well as information for creating elements. 

A useful tutorial is included in this presentation:  Metadata and XML Forms, Donal Moses (UPEI), presented at Islandora Camp NY, November 20, 2013, available at http://islandora.ca/sites/default/files/Metadata%20XMLForms%20Islandora%20Camp%20NY%202013.pdf .  This tutorial steps through the process of building a simple Dublin Core form, and includes screenshots of each step.

To access the XML form builder, log into your Islandora site as an administrator, and navigate to Islandora > Form Builder (admin/islandora/xmlform). You should see the screen below: 

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