Will form builder go back online after losing connection?

  • thetechman
    Asked on January 17, 2018 at 11:59 AM

    Hello,

    today I had a problem while working on a form : the green text at the top wasn't displaying "Last edit at ..." but "work offline", and I lost all the work I did.

    If this should happen again there is the possibility to go back online and save?

    Thanks

  • Nik_C
    Replied on January 17, 2018 at 12:18 PM

    When the form builder goes offline (when connection is lost for example):

    1516209188Screen Shot 2018 01 17 at 6 Screenshot 10

    It will prompt you that you are back online as soon as the connection is restored:

    1516209231Screen Shot 2018 01 17 at 6 Screenshot 21

    Also, the builder is auto-saving all progress.

    What was the form you were working on?

  • thetechman
    Replied on January 17, 2018 at 12:27 PM

    Hi Nik_C,

    the form is here https://eu.jotform.com/build/80154347095356, but in the meantime I made some more edits on it.

    What you say is strange because I didn't lost connection, the problem was only with JotForm.

    Thanks anyway for the answer.

  • Nik_C
    Replied on January 17, 2018 at 12:40 PM

    The other possibility is that your login session expired, which can cause the builder not to save the current action, but that could only happen with one field (or one action) in the builder, eventually, two, since you would be logged out immediately (but the previous work would be saved since of the auto-save feature I mentioned above).

    I'm not sure if that happened to you though?


  • thetechman
    Replied on January 17, 2018 at 12:45 PM

    The only thing I'm sure of is that I had to redo the work of an hour... :-(

  • Richie JotForm Support
    Replied on January 17, 2018 at 1:21 PM

    We are sorry for the inconvenience, is this happening all the time?

    Can you try looking at you revision history, maybe it was saved by the builder.

    Select your form,click More and choose Revisions History.

    Will form builder go back online after losing connection? Image 1 Screenshot 20

    Hope this helps.


  • thetechman
    Replied on January 17, 2018 at 1:24 PM

    Fortunately, it happened only this morning.

    Thanks for the tip.

  • Richie JotForm Support
    Replied on January 17, 2018 at 1:42 PM

    If the issue still remains let us know, so we can check it further.