Let people change their answers

Edit links

In Form settings → Editing, under Editing after submission, turn on Let respondents edit their submission. After sending, people see "Need to change something later?" with a private link. It reopens their answers, marked "Editing your submission", and saving updates the same item instead of creating a new one.

• Maximum edits per submission stops the link after that many edits. Leave it empty for no limit.
• Each edit is counted on the Dashboard and in Responses.
• The link can also go into a Link column on the item, by automation. See Automations.

Answers that can't be changed later

Some answers should stay as they were first given: an incident date, an order number, a signature. Open the question and turn off Can be changed later (under Basics).

• Whenever an answer is changed, the question shows the answer it already has, greyed out and marked "Can't be changed". That covers an edit link, finding the item, a private item link, the item card in monday.com, and a repeat response set to Replace their first answers.
• If the item has no answer for it yet, it can still be answered, once. For example, a supplier can fill in a detail your team left empty.
• A File or Signature question can't be changed once it has files: people see "Already sent. This can't be changed." instead of the upload button or the signing pad.
• MasterForms checks this when saving too, so the answer stays even if someone alters the page.
• Your team can still change the column on the board itself.

Save and finish later

With Let people save and finish later on, the form has a Save and finish later button. It gives a private link that brings the answers back on any device for 30 days. Files and signatures aren't saved, so people add them when they come back.