https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: autosave form entries and e-mail resume link en Tue, 26 May 2026 18:16:20 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/autosave-form-entries-and-e-mail-resume-link#post-22786 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 01:21:53 +0000 eunuchi 22786@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I'm having this same issue. Was there ever a resolution for you? I have tested my form out and I can't tell you how many times the connection was lost or some sort of issue where I had to start all over and all information entered was lost. An autosave feature would definitely be a great feature! Almost a necessity! </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/autosave-form-entries-and-e-mail-resume-link#post-22635 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:45:14 +0000 hughhubbers 22635@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Can you do some custom coding for me? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/autosave-form-entries-and-e-mail-resume-link#post-15150 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:25:38 +0000 yuniar 15150@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I'm afraid this won't be quite simple to implement as well. You will need to do pretty much custom coding for this. Sorry. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/autosave-form-entries-and-e-mail-resume-link#post-15135 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:44 +0000 adrianic 15135@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I've been thinking about this quite a bit because we are still having random time-outs on our form, and I can't figure out why.</p> <p>How about this for an auto-save feature: every time they type in a new field, it auto-saves. The form gives an automatic time-out if it detects no activity on the form for 5 minutes (no typing) and if they entered their e-mail address, which is the first field on my form (like "This form has had no activity for the past 5 minutes. It has been auto-saved, and a link to resume has been e-mailed to you.") They only get 1 e-mail, not periodically.</p> <p>Would this be something easily done or something very complicated? It might be more complicated than I imagine it to be, but I figured it doesn't hurt to ask. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/autosave-form-entries-and-e-mail-resume-link#post-15064 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:33:33 +0000 yuniar 15064@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Thank you for your feedback on this.</p> <p>I don't think we'll be able to do this in the future though.<br /> This autosave would mean the user will receive the "resume email" periodically during the session, because there is no way to detect a lost connection from the server side. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/autosave-form-entries-and-e-mail-resume-link#post-15051 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:59:58 +0000 adrianic 15051@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>This is probably more of a feature request, but is it possible for the form to auto-save and automatically e-mail a resume link in case something goes wrong? The way I would envision it to work, is for the user to be asked for their e-mail as the first item. Then as they fill the form, every field they interact with gets auto-saved. If for whatever reason the server times out, or the the user accidentally closes the window, a resume link will be e-mailed to them.</p> <p>The reason I ask for this feature is because I have tested my form for the problem I had in another post. I still cannot pin-point when or why once in a while (let's say 1 in 10 times) we get a lost connection. It would be great if we had a general form option for the progress to be saved automatically, and if connection is lost, e-mail a resume link to continue, </p>