Managing submissions
Where responses land, how to read and mark them, the search and filter tools, editing a submission's data, and what happens when you delete one.
- Every response lands in the submissions dashboard — with a per-form view and a global view across all forms.
- Submissions are marked read or unread automatically the moment you open them.
- You can full-text search responses and filter by time period, by client, and by the value of choice fields.
- Deleting a submission also deletes its uploaded files and frees your storage, and it can't be undone.
Once a form is live, every response people submit lands in your submissions dashboard. That's where you read, search, filter, edit, and — when you're done with one — delete responses. This guide covers the whole workflow.
Where to find your responses
Open your dashboard. You get two ways to look at responses: a per-form view that shows only the submissions for one form, and a global view that lists responses across all your forms in one place. Use the per-form view when you're working through a single form, and the global view when you want the overall picture.
Reading responses
Click a response to open it and read every field the person filled in. Submissions are marked read or unread automatically — the moment you open one it's flagged as read, so the unread count always reflects what you still have to look at. There's nothing to toggle by hand.
Search and filter
When responses pile up, the search and filter tools help you find the right one fast:
- Full-text search — type into the search box to match text anywhere in a response.
- Time period — narrow to today, this week, or this month.
- By client — filter to the responses tied to a specific client.
- By choice-field value — filter by the selected value of a select, radio, or checkbox field.
Editing a submission
You can edit a submission's data after it arrives — useful for fixing a typo in an email address or correcting a value before you export. Open the response, change the fields, and save. The updated values are what you'll see everywhere the response appears, including exports.
Deleting a submission
Deleting a response removes it from your dashboard for good. If the response included uploaded files, those are deleted too — which frees up your storage quota.
Exporting
Need responses outside Formiqa? You can export submissions to CSV for spreadsheets and analysis, or generate PDF reports for a clean, shareable copy of individual responses.
Frequently asked questions
Can I see responses from all my forms at once?
How are responses marked as read?
If I delete a submission, do its uploaded files go too?
Why are older responses not all shown at once?
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