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Data collection after completing the first page of the form


Good morning.

I would like to know how I can set it up so that when the user clicks "next" on the first screen of the form, I can already receive that data. In case the client doesn't complete the rest of the form, I want to have their contact information. Initially, I will ask for their personal details, and then for other types of information. Therefore, if the user abandons the form, I want to have received the initial data so that I can contact them.

Thank you!

Best answer by Grace

Hi @HobeenTeam welcome to the community ðŸ˜Š

At the moment in order to get the contact information the respondent would need to hit submit and complete the form. 

The product team recently made an update to email embeds to allow you to collect responses after the first question without clicking submit:

 

 

Collecting partial responses is a very popular feature request and the product team are looking at how they can introduce it, so watch this space for more updates! 

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Grace
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Hi @HobeenTeam welcome to the community ðŸ˜Š

At the moment in order to get the contact information the respondent would need to hit submit and complete the form. 

The product team recently made an update to email embeds to allow you to collect responses after the first question without clicking submit:

 

 

Collecting partial responses is a very popular feature request and the product team are looking at how they can introduce it, so watch this space for more updates! 


john.desborough
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@HobeenTeam - one of the ways to do this is to set up your form as a series of forms and use the redirect on completion feature to move the user from one to the next. 

you would have your contact details in the first form and could have set up so that the ‘submit’ label said  ‘next’ or something like that (use the gear icon and change the Messages) and then when the user hits the button it is actually a submit and locks in the data. the user then goes to the first question in the next form. 

using hidden fields you would pass along the email and name as a unique identifier that you would use to connect the data entries together across the form submissions 

connect the form(s) to the same google sheet and you can then create an additional sheet to combine all the data entries into a single record using the email address as the key to do a vlookup 

 

just a thought 

 

 

des


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