Hi Everyone (Sorry for the long post),
[Resume: Is it possible to access form data between steps? by triggering a workflow or something without submitting the form?]
First of all apologies if I’m asking non-sense or I’m asking something that has already been solved (is the very first time I’m dealing with Umbraco in my life ^^’ ), but after googling for quite a while now, I decided to create this topic.
After a couple of hours searching I notice that “Umbraco Forms” is the new “Contour” and there isn’t too much documentation about it.
I’m trying to create a form with Umbraco forms which I did without any issues it’s 3 pages form, 1 check box in each page pretty simple. And I want to save the process of this form, I saw there is something called “Workflows” and the only useful information I found was this one Dan’s workflow class.
After reading the documentation it looks like this workflows only runs when the form is submitted? I checked the .json config file for the custom workflow that I did and it’s like this (App_Plugins/UmbracoForms/Data/workflows/{GUID}.json):
{"id": "d02e6610-877a-4b07-9323-1852d2ce5efb", "name": "Save progress of form to member property", "form": "8f076afb-6c7a-444f-90b2-d93cdf91c575", "active": true, "workflowTypeId": "97c5796d-34da-451b-a5ec-9eeb9ae216cc", "executesOn": "Submitted", "settings": {}, "sortOrder": 1}
After googling a bit I found those values can be: Submitted/Approved (only after form submission)
I decided to start checking the DB and try to figure out how Umbraco handles the data in this forms. It goes from page to page of the same form refreshing the page so I thought maybe it uses the DB.
There we can find [UFRecords] all the submitted records go there, the problems is that before submitting the form all the data isn’t in the DB either, so I can’t write a custom piece of code to get this data and handle it manually.
I don’t know if I’m missing something or not as this stage, Umbraco documentation doesn’t tell too much about this. So I’m not sure if this is possible or not.
I show that in the following table [UFRecordFields] we keep a track of the Fields and the DataType and the Record they belong to, but this data is only created after the form is created (After submitting the form).
Anyone knows if this is possible? or shall I go for a custom form entirely from scratch?
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://our.umbraco.com/forum/76578-saving-data-between-steps-in-the-form-to-complete-form-later