Submit vs Update on login

[gstanley]

After registration when a user logs in, I need them to be able to submit data on a form. The next time they login, I need them to be presented with the update version of that form. How can i control this?

[shengnandou]

Hi,

In Caspio, login screens don't stand alone, but are actually attached to DataPages inside authenticated folders. So which DataPage is deployed decides which screen users will see after they login, which is static.

What you can do is to insert custom links (http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_links.asp) on the DataPages (or your web pages) so that users can switch between them. For example, insert a 'click here to update your existing registration' link on the registration form which users can witch to the update form if they already created a submission.

Hope this helps.

[telly]

Hi  @gstanley,

You may create a standalone login with criteria where if they already updated their profile they are directed to Dashboard and if they haven't updated their information it will redirected to the update form.  https://howto.caspio.com/tech-tips-and-articles/create-user-specific-redirect-after-login/

I hope this helps.

[NiceDuck]

How about upon their registration, having an insert trigger that will create an entry to that other table as well, but all of the fields are blank? Just a placeholder.

Then, set your login to automatically redirect to the datapage used to update that record. 

With this, you don't have to worry about step 1 of your workflow which is the creation of the records. Just the update form upon login.