Manage form drafts | Zoho Creator Help

Manage form drafts

  1. Enable save form as draft option
  2. Save and access form drafts

What Does This Page Cover?

Learn how to save your partly-filled data in Creator forms as drafts and effortlessly pickup from where you left before submitting the form.
To learn more about the form drafts, click here.

Availability

Saving a form as draft:
  1. is available across all data centers.
  2. can be created in the free and paid plans of Creator.
  3. can be configured by the super admin, admins, and developers while other users can create and manage them.

Setting Up Form Drafts

From Drafts Creation Flow


See How To Configure


Enable saving form as draft

1. Navigate to the edit mode of your app.
2. Select the required form and open its form builder.
3. Navigate to the Form Properties by clicking the   icon on the top-right corner of the builder.
4. Tick the checkbox beside the Enable users to save form as draft and resume editing later option.


Note
  1. If you're the admin/super-admin of your application, you can enable the Save Draft property. 
  2. You can uncheck the box to disable the Save Draft option. If you disable this property, all the existing drafts (if present) of your form will be deleted. 

Save and access your form drafts 

1. Your users can access your form when it's live, fill it out, and click the Save As Draft button. Your form will be saved as a draft, which can be accessed later by users. They can resume editing the draft form from their previous progress.
2. To view the saved drafts for a form, users can click the View Drafts button beside the form name.
3. The Drafts pane will slide in from the right. All drafts of that form will be listed here as preview cards, in the order of their last modification time.
  1. If you haven't saved any drafts for your form, this pane will be empty and you'll be prompted with a message.
  2. Drafts saved in your form will automatically be deleted after 15 days.
  3. If your application admin/super-admin makes any changes to your form, the drafts corresponding to that form will be deleted. Learn more
3. You can open a draft by clicking the preview card of the required draft. The selected draft will be highlighted in the pane.
Note
  1. The first three visible fields in your form will be listed in the drafts preview card and the rest will be shown in the draft form.
  2. If your form has subform, rich text, notes, formula, or encrypted fields as the first three fields, they will not be listed in the preview card. Instead, these fields will be shown only in the draft form.
  3. For field labels and field values, only the first 50 characters will be shown in the drafts preview.
  4. If there are composite fields such as name and address fields, the display fields will be shown as comma-separated values in the draft form.
  5. On resuming editing your draft form, if you've a signature field, you cannot edit its input (the previously signed values will not be stored). Instead, you need to re-sign in the respective field.
4. The draft form will be displayed with a Draft tag beside the form name. You can continue editing your draft from where you left it.

5. You can switch between drafts by selecting them from the Drafts pane. The selected draft will be highlighted in the pane.
6. After editing a draft form:
  1. You can submit a draft as a form by clicking the Submit button.
  2. You can edit a draft and save the changes as a draft by clicking the Save as Draft button.
  3. You can click the Reset button to reset the draft.
7. To delete a draft, hover on its preview card and click the delete icon.
8. You can click the Delete All button at the top-right of the Drafts pane to delete all the five drafts of your form.


Limitations

  1. Drafts can be saved only while adding a record (Drafts are not supported while editing a record).
  2. Users can only save up to five drafts per form. After that, they'll need to clear an existing draft to save a new draft. 
  3. While submitting a record using saved draft data, there might be chances of storing outdated values in integration fields. To rectify them, users can either modify the value referred in draft, in the respective connected service or delete the record from their Creator application.
  4. You cannot view preview of media fields preview while editing a draft.
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