How to enable IsRobotDetection on a form?

Question

How can I enable IsRobotDetectipn on the form while all the settings for below settings already enabled although I can't do that

Xdb.Enabled.
Xdb.Tracking.Enabled 
Analytics.AutoDetectBots.

Answer 1

Robot detection for Sitecore Forms is enabled by default.

To enable or disable robot detection for each form field:

In the Forms designer, in the Form elements pane, on the Settings tab, select or clear the Robot detection enabled check box.

Robot detection enabled check box.

Note : If you are having problems with robot detection, ensure that your layouts contain the VisitorIdentification tag: @Html.Sitecore().VisitorIdentification()

Answer 2

4 things are important to check :

Xdb.Enabled setting
Xdb.Tracking.Enabled setting
Analytics.AutoDetectBots setting
Result of XdbSettings.HasValidLicense call.

Make sure you have valid xDB license, for that open /sitecore/client/Applications/ExperienceAnalytics/Dashboard url, if it opened without errors, that means that the license is valid for xDB.

In Sitecore 10.1.0 there is no IRobotDetection registration in config. Instead, there is RobotDetectionHelper which uses the following code:

public static bool IsRobotDetectionAvailable => 
  Settings.GetBoolSetting("Xdb.Enabled", false) && 
  Settings.GetBoolSetting("Xdb.Tracking.Enabled", false) && 
  Settings.GetBoolSetting("Analytics.AutoDetectBots", false);

You may create a test page or just try it in debug to see the values of those setting in your web app and which of them is causing issues.

You can try the following url /formbuilder/load?id=&sc_formmode=new&sc_formlang=en&sc_site=shell&_=SOME_RANDOM_VALUE and see the source of the response. It's not easy to read it but you should see something like

isRobotDetectionAvailable":true,"

or false.

If you see true in response, try a new incognito browser or potentially even recycle Sitecore.