Saving form data

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DrGonzo65
September 17th, 2009

I've got a form builder inside the interaction setup model of a Dialog Workflow component, and it is a pretty hefty web form.  I've had requests from users to be able to enter some of it, save it, and come back to it later.  Each form element writes into a variable in an array that eventually writes to a DB, so I understand that I could have a save button that writes it all to the DB and then make a separate DW that populates a similar form with the non-null values, but that seems to be a lot of work, and that there may be a way to do this without that hassle...any ideas?

Thanks

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stuper
9 weeks 2 days ago

Persisting task

There is an easier way:

  1. On your form, add a "Save" button and give it its own end component in the Dialog model (and edit the end component to have its output path called Save)
  2. Edit all your webforms components so their values are set to "Optional" for the Save output path (this will let your users get off the page without filling out everything)
  3. Click OK out of the DW editor to save your changes to the dialog model
  4. Open the DW editor again, go to the Interaction Setup tab, click "Do Not Exit on Some Outputs"
  5. Select the Save output path

You should test this, but it should work. The user should be able to fill out only some of the data and then click save and leave the form. When they want to finish filling it out they can click on the task again. Because the Save path didn't exit the DW comp, the task is still open and it still has their data.


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DrGonzo65
9 weeks 2 days ago

Thank you!  Worked perfectly!

Thank you!  Worked perfectly!

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