Ability to edit form entries from Backoffice.

[daljitkaur9]

Hi, Is there any way to edit/update the form from backoffice by the admin ?

[emma-hq]

Hi @daljitkaur9

That's entirely possible, yes. Take a look at our docs on forms and that should shed some light on the issue for you. If you need further support though, please visit our forum Our.Umbraco.com.

Emma

[daljitkaur9]

Hi Emma,
I was asking for, the submitted forms. If we can edit or update the form from the entries section. Right now they only show in the read only format.

[emma-hq]

Hi @daljitkaur9

Currently, that's not possible. If you'd like to make a feature request here, please feel free. Be sure to include lots of info, screenshots where possible, and we can discuss at Hq.

Emma

[daljitkaur9]

Thank you, Emma.

[nul800sebastiaan]

Currently it is possible to edit entries on the frontend but it does pose security risks, if people know the GUID of the form entry they can edit it without being an authenticated backoffice user https://our.umbraco.com/forum/umbraco-forms/83900-update-data-in-entries-forms-umbraco

Currently we recommend you export entries to excel and edit them there.

This is a good feature request though and it might be good to work on in the future, we have no plans in the near future to do so however.

As a side note: not all forms should have editable entries, not every backoffice user should be able to edit entries, so we will need to keep a security model in mind as well.

I'll add this to the list of ideas to work on in the future.

[daljitkaur9]

Hi Sebastian,
Yes i already saw this example.
But my use case was : Something like, an admin should be able to add some comments to the submitted form, before approving or declining it.

[detsroh]

Hi all,

This has been the most requested and voted (and promised 🙈) feature for years, but been overlooked numerous times. See just a few of the requests...

#146
https://issues.umbraco.org/issue/CON-786
https://issues.umbraco.org/issue/CON-920
https://our.umbraco.com/forum/umbraco-pro/contour/75003-edit-forms-entry
And plenty of other forum requests...

We use umbraco Forms for contact forms, but mostly for event signup. Often people submit incorrect data and we need to be able to correct typo mistakes, update their selections etc. We made our own implementation years ago, where our editors can edit umbraco Form entries on the related/specific event content page (in its own tab) using the forms datatypes - maybe it can be used as inspiration for implementation...

Ofcause this doesn't need to be possible in a content page like above, but in the Forms section. A datatype to also be able to do it on a content page would be killer bonus feature though :-)

We also like the option to create a new entry (it's the magicwand icon, left to the 'søg' field) from the backend, if people signup by phone, mail or in person...

I think there are lots of other scenarios where beeing able to create/edit a form entry in the backend would be usefull, as people use umbraco Forms for lots of things besides contact forms. For instance we also use the form entries data for creating printed nametags for events and often people write their name in only lowercase, so we need to be able to correct this before printing.

(Another usefull feature would be Import - bulk import of entries, just like can Export, but thats a whole other story/feature and editing (and creating) an entry is more important :-)

It would be much appriciated if HQ will prioritized these feature requests and they would be added to the roadmap...

Thanks in advance!

[detsroh]

Very pleased that 'Editable entries for Umbraco Forms' has been added to the roadmap and ETA is Q1 2022 - Andy you are a rockstar 🥳 Merry christmas to all of you 🎅🎄

[AndyButland]

Due in the next minor releases, 8.11.0 and 9.3.0.