Has anybody used FormAssembly as part of a system that allows you to manage form responses by user? I like the way FormAssembly allows a layperson to create interviews, but I need a little more robust way of allowing interviewees to log back in and change answers to their forms if need be.
The current design of FA isnt quite set up to accomplish what you want, as it is designed to be simple to use for 1 time users. However, it would be quite possible to create a custom build for you that would allow users to revisit previously submitted forms (in much the same way as our Save/Resume function works).
If you would like to discuss this, we can talk here or by email, drewbuschhornATgmailDOTcom
How many users are you planning on having? Would you like them to have one login across multiple forms, or would a id-stamp be acceptable for them to pull up a single submission and edit it? Do you want to keep both the old and new data when a user edits an old submission?
thanks for the quick response. For the first year probably 500 users with an average of 3 interview responses each. Yes, one login across multiple forms - preferably email and password. I done need version control.
1. Someone with your organization creates a form for use in interviewing clients. This can then be accessed by a url.
2. The client is given the url, and attempts to visit it. They are instead prompted to create an account. Once this is done they are directed back to the original url and fill out the form. You can chose to receive email notification when it is submitted.
3. The response is now available in your organization's FA account as usual.
4. A week later, the user wishes to do a new response, so they visit the same url as before, login, and have a form with their previous data. They write some new information in a box (or create a new box with a repeatable section), and resubmit.
One more thing... What happens if you change the interview and republish. Would they have to redo the whole interview, or would the fields in common be populated?
Yup, just double checked and that should work. The only real challenge would be for file fields, do you anticipate having users upload files and needing to be reminded of which files they had uploaded previously?
hi, i'm also highly interested in this exact feature for our company's newsletter management (think lots of checkbox options instead of text fields that should be saveable and accessible for future updates). i actually have a visual if that'll help you in being able to customize FA in getting this worked out. please let me know if you can help at mike [at] avenuek9 [dot] com! thanks!
This could well be a significant step forward. Imo this type of functionality should be offered either as part of a plan, or as an add in. Maybe it is time for a new plan, one where basic functionality is offered and clients have the option of selecting additional features.
For example, the difference between the subscription plan and the professional one is $25 almost 380%! Of course one gets extra functionality server side scripts, Paypal and Salesforce. Server side scripts are a nice feature for me, but there is no gain in being able to use Paypal and Salesforce in my case. I'd gladly pay 100% extra to be able to run server side scripts and may be another 100% for the feature we are discussing here. Provided that it offers me the functionality I require;-)
Some more about the functionality I'd like to see: 1. I should like the filled in form to be accessible by a list of users, which the creator of the form can specify e.g. by emailaddress. The creator can also specify wether a user has update rights or view rights only. 2. Rather than overwrite answers to questions. I'd present the latest answer in readonly mode and give the opportunity to create an update instance of the questions 'which require changes, much like creating another instance now. 3. I'd keep track of the number of times a form has been revised and offer the user the possiblity to view earlier versions.
As far as I am concerned, speaking just for myself, in principle yes. Forgive my ignorance what does "0 pay NRE" mean? Before giving a definite commitment I should appreciate to know what my out of pocket cost would be in US $.