This feature Save/Load is useful for lengthy forms where your users may not have all the information required to complete the form in a single session. This feature is enabled via the form's save/load property.
When save/load is enabled, an additional icon Save button is added to the top bottom of the form: . Form Form users can partially complete the form including leaving required fields blank and even having invalid data in form fields. They click save and the partially competed form is saved on the Form Server. Later the user can re-open the form either in the same browser or a different browser or even from a different computer, and reload the partially complete completed form and continue working on it.
- Users load their saved forms from their Task list. See Perform a Task for more information.
When a user clicks save for the 1st time, if they are not already logged into , an authentication dialog appears asking them to enter their username and password.
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Saved forms are not the same as submitted forms. Saved forms do not appear and the user who has the form locked can be viewed in the Submissions RepositoryTable by checking the SAVED checkbox as the submission type . Saved forms can contain invalid data and also contain required fields with no values yet entered. When such a form is re-loaded the missing and invalid values are again flagged as such by . And the form cannot be submitted (the submit button will be grey'd out) until corrections are made to those fields.
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