identification of edited content

  • asifjamilakhtar
    Asked on August 18, 2016 at 1:53 AM

    Is there anyway we can find out what user has edited through edit link in a form?

  • beril JotForm UI Developer
    Replied on August 18, 2016 at 4:16 AM

    As far as I understand from your thread you want to see the data that user has edited with edit function:

    When user edits the form you will receive another notification as you see below:

    identification of edited content Image 1 Screenshot 30

    I am sorry to say that the only way is comparing the old and new notification that user sent. 

    identification of edited content Image 2 Screenshot 41

     

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  • asifjamilakhtar
    Replied on August 18, 2016 at 5:45 AM
    How can I find the edited portion of the document? Am I needed to
    compare the original as well as edited submission?
    ...
  • beril JotForm UI Developer
    Replied on August 18, 2016 at 8:59 AM

    Yes, you need to compare both notifications as I showed you above. At that time, you can see which part that your customer changed. However, I will try to solve your issue with a different way. If I find a solution for you I will get back to you soon.

  • asifjamilakhtar
    Replied on August 18, 2016 at 3:45 PM
    I agree that from the subject you can differentiate between original and
    edited submission. But the real problem starts after you open both forms
    together for comparison. It takes a lot of time to compare both forms and
    pinpoint the edited info. There must be some way to resolve the problem
    ...
  • David JotForm Support
    Replied on August 18, 2016 at 6:11 PM

    At this time, the only way to compare previous data to updated data is via the update emails.  There is no other sort of marking or tag to denote which fields were updated.  You could add a field to the form to add update notes, however, there is no built in feature to do so at this time.