[Forminator Pro] Saved Forms/Partially complete forms

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Hi,

This one is a bit “out there”, however its borne from a couple of clients we have who have one or two items to sell and don’t want/need full eCommerce to do it. Forminator can do most of this (see my other post for one feature request to make this easier). However one thing (maybe in conjunction with Hustle) to make this more able to capture clients would be the ability to have the form appear Globally on the site, saving the changes as they (the customer) edit the form and do not submit it.

So I’m thinking of Hustle’s Social Media Slide-ins but this could also be a icon in the menu (that would ideally change based on a calculated field to put a number onto the icon like one of the many shopping cart icons you see). Clicking the icon brings up the form (standard hustle behaviour), BUT if you close the form without submitting it, navigating , re-opening it and updating it should be kept consistent (ie keep the content already filled) until the customer submits the form.

Using the Submissions (or rather a separate partial submissions) table to keep the form data until submitted would enable this (and possibly allow things like capturing people that only ever partially fill in data to increase retention/re-capture).

Regards

Mark

  • Adam
    • Support Gorilla

    Hi Mark

    I hope you’re well today!

    There’s an additional script that one of our developers created (note please: it’s not an official add-on/solution but rather a custom “workaround” for similar requirement) that might help:

    https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls/9917696b87543e3edb92e84f41933be0

    You need to define form(s) ID(s) in the script and it should keep the fields values in cookies so when user “gets back to the form” filled-in values (at least – most of them) should already be there.

    It might be useful for you but I must say that I’ve never tested it with a form displayed within Hustle popup/slide-in so I’m not sure how this would affect the script. I suppose it might be better to put the form in e.g. some sidebar rather than this but nonetheless it might be worth giving a shot.

    We also have a feature to support such “partial submissions” (so store data for not-fully-filled-and-submitted forms to allow users to get to them later) already on our “to do” list. I don’t have an ETA but I can confirm that it’s planned to be added to the plugin in future.

    Best regards,
    Adam