Add a save and continue later button to Classic Forms too

  • specialmoderndesign
    Asked on January 21, 2019 at 3:25 PM

    I went through the whole tutorial on how to make 2 forms in order for the user to pause and resume the form.

    I know it is available on cards, but I have forms set up.

    This seems so unprofessional. Do I have this right that a user has to save the LINK in order to get back on the questionnaire. Will they land on where they left off?



  • Support_Management Jotform Support
    Replied on January 21, 2019 at 4:16 PM

    If you'll stick with the CLASSIC LAYOUT, then no, they don't necessarily have to save the link per se. What you can do as the form owner is include the session URL inside the AUTORESPONDER email that they receive. This way, your respondents will have a saved copy of it in their email that is readily available to be accessed anytime they want to.

    And yes, they will continue where they left off if they will use the session URL. I know it's a long guide but I would still highly recommend you have another look at it.

    Otherwise, another simpler alternative that saves locally through the browser is autofill.

    Related guide: How-to-Enable-Auto-Fill-on-Forms

  • specialmoderndesign
    Replied on January 21, 2019 at 4:34 PM

    Is there a plan to make this magically do this? i.e, a button that says SAVE AND RESUME LATER or something like that?

    Can you help me complete the task? I got very far but think I hit a wall.



  • Support_Management Jotform Support
    Replied on January 21, 2019 at 4:48 PM

    Is there a plan to make this magically do this? i.e, a button that says SAVE AND RESUME LATER or something like that?

    We already have something in place for that and you mentioned these in your first post.

    1. CARD FORMS - Built-in save and continue later

    2. CLASSIC FORMS - Session-based method using two forms

    I decided to elevate your thread as a feature request to have a dedicated and built-in save feature for Classic Forms as well. We can't give you any timeframe but we'll keep you apprised on this same thread when there's an update. 

    Can you help me complete the task? I got very far but think I hit a wall.

    Please share the URLs or the names of the two forms you built so we can check them. It would also help if you can further describe in more details what issue you stumbled upon, what's not working, which parts of the guide you haven't completed yet, etc. Please don't forget to differentiate which one is the FIRST FORM and the MAIN FORM when you share the FORM URLs with us.