How would you save an incomplete form with mandatory fields?

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Hello

I am required to come up with a solution to enter a form into a workflow. The form is quite long, I believe it could take an hour to complete.

It also needs to have conditional logic, which is why I am considering Power Apps

It will have mandatory fields

I will be using SharePoint as a datasource

My issue is with the length of time it takes to complete the form. I wish to give the user the ability to save and resume. They would save by hitting a big icon that submits the form. When the form is complete, there will be a toggle at the bottom, stating "I confirm this information is correct as of..." which would mark a field in the SharePoint list "Complete" as true, which would trigger the workflow the next time the save/submit

I wish to use required fields. But if the user will be saving the incomplete form, I can't do it in the traditional way

Does anyone have a creative solution for this?

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Conn

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What I can suggest is have two buttons, a Save button and Submit button. Both will still submit the form data to the SharePoint list however the Form Status will be different. Checks for mandatory fields will only occur when clicking on the Submit button. You can set a variable isRequired for the Required property for all of the required fields in your form and in the OnSelect property of the Save button set the isRequired to false and for the Submit button set isRequired to true.

Of course you would have to add functionality to on display forms to the other users that Form Status is completed.

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Excellent idea rpersad

I've had bad luck submitting and changing statuses in the same button before, hence why I am putting the "Confirm" as a toggle separate from the "Submit" button. But the idea of making the Required property a variable solves my issue

I will try connecting the variable to the toggle, either by making the variable equal to the toggle (I have memories of this being a challenge before), or having the variable change with the toggle

Thanks very much for solving my issue
Conn

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No problem glad that I was able to assist.

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