Edit a legacy Forms Manager response

This article explains how to edit a submitted response in legacy Forms Manager, including changing standard field answers through the Results tab and updating attendee and seating information for registration forms.

đź’ˇQuick answers

  • Editing a submitted form response in Forms Manager? Steps: hover over the result in the Results table, click the eyeball icon to view it, click edit this entry to make fields editable, update the responses, then save the submission.
  • Can I edit registration elements in a submitted response? Yes; click the Attendees and Seating button at the bottom of the view window to edit attendee information, though you can cancel a registration but not add a new registrant.
  • Where do you go to view and edit form submissions? The Results tab of the form is where admins can view, edit, and save changes to respondent submissions.

This article refers to our legacy product, Forms Manager. For the best Finalsite experience, we recommend using our newest product, Forms, which is already available to you in your modules list. To learn more, please review "Which forms module do I have: New Forms or Legacy Forms Manager?" 

After a respondent has submitted their form, you as an admin may have cause to go back and edit their response. You can do this through the Results tab.

Hover over the result in the table and click the eyeball icon to view/edit that result. Click the “edit this entry” link at the top to make the fields editable. This will allow you to change the responses to any of the elements on the form, except for registration elements.

Edit this entry link highlighted in result view

To change registration elements, click the “Attendees and Seating” button at the bottom of the window. The attendee information will pop up for editing. Note that you can cancel a registration, but you cannot add a registrant. Save changes to go back to the main View / Edit window.

Attendees and Seating button highlighted in result view

Once you have made any necessary changes, select “save submission” to return to the Results table view.

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