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resubmission of public forms

asked on June 10, 2014

Is there any way to route a publicly submitted form for correction and resubmission?  The only way I have found to resubmit looks like it requires a forms user to assign the task to.  I am looking for a way to send an email to an address collected on the submitted form with a link to open, modify, and resubmit the form.

 

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replied on June 11, 2014

One way to accomplish this is at your Application Approval Task, if it needs more data kick off a workflow that takes the information from the submission and writes it to a database. At the end of the workflow have it send an email to the public user that includes a link to the form, but passes a querystring with the information they already entered so it fills out the form for them and they can correct what needs to be corrected. The rest of your workflow can stay the same because it will be like they are submitting a new form.

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replied on June 11, 2014

Thanks for the information on the workaround.

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replied on July 28, 2014

I am trying to find a way around this issue as well.  A customer's form has 75+ fields (many of which are repeatable tables & collections) and if the public submitter has one issue then they are having to resubmit the whole form.  The database to store this data would be daunting for such a simplistic task of re-submitting a form. Does anyone know if the ability to re-submit a form from public access is something that is in the works? 

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replied on August 26, 2015

I just wanted to see if talk about adding this type of ability natively in Forms in a future version? We have a lot of forms that interact with public users and we are needing to send them back to have certain information corrected. Saving the data to a database is a great option until you have a form with 75+ fields like Beau mentioned.

If a form was able to be setup as 1 of 3 options (public, public w/email address, and restricted) that would be great. I would envision the public w/email address option working as follows. The public individual fills out the form in question. When they go to submit, it would require them to enter an email address. That email address is related to that form similar to how a Draft currently works. If at any point in the forms process it needs to be sent back for correction or additional information, a button would be selected and it would send back to the email address that was entered when the form was first submitted.

When the public user resubmits the form, Forms would know at what step the form was at and it would send back to the last step and carry forward from there. It might be good to have an option for an admin to choose if when it is resubmitted whether it restarts the entire process or goes back to the previous step.

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replied on June 11, 2014

This is the basic Process Model

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replied on September 9, 2014

I have a simular problem, where we are using a form with multiple check box questions and are saving the responses to a database.  I am unable to find a way to use a query string to populate the check box questions.  Has anyone had any experience with this that can help?

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