What you are suggesting is that we duplicate data and create extra fields? As a large organization, we have been working hard to limit the number of extra fields as we know this will grow large anyway.
Raghu You can only retrieve fields that can go on a form using the APIs. SFDC ID and Type are not available to the Form editor (or) the APIs, but you can extract them by creating a custom field and copying over the values using the Change Data Value flow action