Form updates

cobrien

I have build forms that have incorporated labels and helper text. I need a way that will allow me to resend the form with the labels and helper text and the previous answers in order to get updated information without requiring the user to refill out the entire questionnaire. The update request only sends the column headers which are useless to the person answering the questions. Any suggestions? Is this something that is being worked on?

Thanks

Nabil Hayek

Hi,

The only way I can think of is to save the form in a fillable PDF format and use the "generate documents" function (by right clicking on that row) so the person can fill out/update the necessary fields only.

Not sure if that helps

Paul H

@cobrien It is possible to use a column formula to build a form URL that would autofill all the previous answers. Then send an automated notification that only includes the URL column. When summitted it would come in as a new row.

https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/2478871-url-query-string-form-default-values

You can see in my previous post the section on building the URLs via a formula

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/90041/edit-row-via-a-form-functional-workaround