https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: How To Prevent Multiple Submissions? en Sun, 03 May 2026 21:00:15 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions/page/2#post-24626 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:20:58 +0000 yuniar 24626@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Ok, to confirm, the multiple submissions bug apparently still affect the "save form and resume later" button. It doesn't affect the main form submit button.</p> <p>We'll include the fix for this into our next update (v4.7). Also, the email address will be set as required by default. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions/page/2#post-24593 Sun, 20 Dec 2015 04:45:22 +0000 agdm619 24593@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I can confirm...that double clicking or pressing the "Save form and resume later" button multiple times creates multiple incomplete entries via a desktop PC and mobile device.</p> <p><img src="https://www.genprod.com/onlineforms/downloads/saveresume.png"></img></p> <p>Also it appears that you don't have to enter anything into the email address field to submit! This is a bug as well. It should be a required field.</p> <p>Please advise.</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Aaron </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-24591 Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:28:26 +0000 agdm619 24591@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I can confirm that this is still still happening in 4.6. But only when users are saving there progress. It shows up in the incomplete entries page, (see screen shot below) what can we do to stop this from happening? As our employees rely on the incomplete entries page to follow-up with our tickets in the field and it's causing confusion.</p> <p><img src="https://www.genprod.com/onlineforms/downloads/dupes.jpg"></p> <p>Thanks for your help!<br /> Aaron </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-24450 Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:26:17 +0000 celsiusmarketing 24450@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>This has been fixed. Server side validation is working perfectly for us now. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-24421 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:34:54 +0000 yuniar 24421@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Yes, this has been added to the latest version (4.6) </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-24416 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 04:33:01 +0000 williamansley 24416@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>It is supposed to be fixed, according to the change log:</p> <p>Improvement: Built-in server-side code to prevent accidental multiple submission</p> <p>This is from the release notes for the 4.6 update:</p> <p><a href="http://www.appnitro.com/blog-machform46-released" rel="nofollow">http://www.appnitro.com/blog-machform46-released</a> </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-24415 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 04:07:28 +0000 rocketmedia 24415@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Has this update been added into the latest version of machform? This bug has been something that has compelled us to look at other solutions. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-24065 Tue, 15 Sep 2015 06:40:07 +0000 celsiusmarketing 24065@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Any idea as to when the next update will occur? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-23900 Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:30:55 +0000 yuniar 23900@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Yes, we'll include this as part of the next update </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-23860 Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:33:37 +0000 celsiusmarketing 23860@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Multiple submissions occur on mobile devices. I can confirm this as I tested earlier this morning on my android phone and I hit the submit button multiple times and it submitted the form 3 times. When I test on my computer, the submit button is disabled and works as expected. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-23852 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 21:13:31 +0000 williamansley 23852@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Will this fix be in the next Machform update? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-23849 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 07:56:34 +0000 yuniar 23849@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>The submit button should have been disabled after the initial submission indeed. However, this doesn't seems enough to prevent multiple duplicate submissions.</p> <p>We've now added server-side code to double check the submitted data. I believe server-side validation is the best way to prevent duplicate submissions.</p> <p>Please contact us directly and let us know the exact version of your machform.<br /> We'll send you the fix for this.</p> <p><a href="http://www.appnitro.com/contact" rel="nofollow">http://www.appnitro.com/contact</a> </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-23847 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 22:46:23 +0000 williamansley 23847@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Since Yuniar seems to have missed this message thread, I suggest you file a bug report directly with Appnitro support, using the contact form linked to below:</p> <p><a href="http://www.appnitro.com/contact" rel="nofollow">http://www.appnitro.com/contact</a> </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-23844 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:58:22 +0000 nickcurry 23844@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I have just enabled the 'limit submission by IP' setting temporarily to allow only 5 submissions per day from the same IP address... Until a fix comes. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-23843 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:40:38 +0000 nickcurry 23843@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>We are also having this issue, sometimes it is 2, 3, 4 times and sometimes even 20!</p> <p>Using the latest 4.5 version here (updated today). </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-23842 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:21:22 +0000 celsiusmarketing 23842@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Yuniar can you please respond and give some insights? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-23816 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:32:14 +0000 celsiusmarketing 23816@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Unfortunately, that is not a good solution for us because we have many students who fill the form out with the same first name. This issue is caused by a user being able to click the submit button multiple times which shouldn't be allowed because in one of the updates it stated that they added a feature to disable the submit button once it has been clicked. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-23814 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 08:42:38 +0000 karenfan 23814@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>This is just a suggestion, and may not work in your scenario.</p> <p>If the student name is a text field, there is an option in the Rules section which says "No Duplicates". This does a server-side check for the value to be unique. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-23807 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 01:08:14 +0000 celsiusmarketing 23807@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Here's a screenshot from one of our forms.</p> <p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/XqPfeq6.png" /> </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/how-to-prevent-multiple-submissions#post-23806 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 01:05:15 +0000 celsiusmarketing 23806@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>MachForm Version 4.4 </p>