Partially Submitted Save on Multiple steps change

[MagicMetaMike]

Can we bring back Partially Submitted Workflows, it was there in Contour and it is still partially implemented but no longer works properly and the Backoffice UI does not mention it anymore. Please can we fix it/bring it back as it is needed for multistep forms.

Being able to save every step of a form and then resume that form at the point you "Partially Submitted" it would be a golden feature and was available way back in the day.

Keep up the great work team, we appreciate it!

[nul800sebastiaan]

Hi @MagicMetaMike. I am not familiar with that feature, do you have an example of what that used to do that you can't do any more now?

FYI: we're not currently working on new features (even if they're old features) but it might be a good one for the future ideas list.

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[gfyans]

@umbrabot still relevant
You have a feature called AllowEditableFormSubmissions. Being able to save a form in a PartiallySubmitted state, and then come back later to finish it off using AllowEditableFormSubmissions would allow for users to complete a long form over a number of hours/days.

[gfyans]

As Mike said, this was a feature back in the days of Contour, and there is some code leftover from this in Umbraco Forms e.g. look at your FormState enum.

[AndyButland]

See also #719.

[rickbutterfield]

Seconded, this feature would be really useful!

[WeAreJigital]

Did anyone get anywhere with this? How are people solving this problem at the moment>? :)

[richarth]

Hi,

We've had a request in from a client to be able to save progress on a form and to be able to come back to the form later to complete it. They have a long form that requires the user to go off and find various pieces of documentation, which makes completing the form in one go difficult.

As far as I can see the ability to save progress and resume the form doesn't exist. It would be great if this feature could be added to the roadmap please. If this does exist and I've just missed it, I'd be grateful for a pointer please.

Thanks

[WeAreJigital]

@richarth the only way you can do it at the moment is

In appSettings.json AllowEditableFormSubmissions setting to true

Then, on the page you added the form to, you can add the query string
?recordId=FORM GUID

This will show the submitted form for the GUID

I spent ages trying to find a way to do this and could not find a good way, even programmatically. I don't think this feature is coming anytime soon out of the box sadly :(

[richarth]

Thanks @WeAreJigital, I'll take a look at that.