Hi @thankssforhelp
as other sites use this for example. They use a separate page per step I assume?
That’s possible but it’s also possible that the form itself works in some different way on “code level” – maybe e.g. automatically creating “virtual” pages. But I’m not enough familiar with “under the hood” code of other forms plugins to be able to tell more about it.
In Forminator, the multisitep form is in fact just a regular “single step” form with just some “sections” that are revealed/hidden accordingly; so it’s in fact a “single page”.
There is a sort of of a workaround, in case you’d want to give it a go, but please note: it makes things a bit more complicated in terms of configuration and it results in multiple submissions spread across multiple forms for single user instead of just one submission.
The idea here is to create separate forms instead of one big form, place them on separate pages and “interlink” them using redirect behavior togahter with “pre-populate” feature of the plugin (which is, basically, sending values from form to form via the URL parameters).
In a nutshell:
– you set first form (with a few fields)
– and set its submission behavior to redirect to page where the second form is; in redirect URL you set it to include all the form values
– on the second form you add a series of “hidden” fields which you set to take value from “query var” (those would be ones carried over from previous page/form and a next set of regular fields
– then again you set that second from submission behavior to redirect to the page where the third form is and in redirect URL include both all those hidden fields and additional fields
– and so on – until you got forms for all the steps completed.
The last form will include all the data in submission but there’ll also be those “intermediate” forms submitted so that may create a bit of a “mess” (unless you set all those “intermediate” forms to not store submissions in DB and not send e-mails; while only keeping the last one set this way).
It should work for relatively simple forms with no complex calculations across the pages – but it’s still a “trick” so should first be thoroughly tested on some dev site to make sure that it helps the way you need.
Kind regards,
Adam
