Hello everyone, A quick question for you.
Currently, WebSubmit allows the admin to define a "cookie" on a form field, allowing that field to remember its value between different submissions. The original idea was that if, for example, a user had to submit several documents with the same value in a given field (e.g. date), the cookie would save them from having to enter this value each time - it would already be filled for them when they started a new submission.
Recently, we've found a bug in the cookie handling in WebSubmit and we're considering dropping support for this functionality, rather than fixing the bug. Basically, we don't feel that the cookies are needed any longer for two main reasons:
1. They can be a source of errors in record-data. If for example, a field such as date remembers its last value and presents it to the user during their next submission, it's likely that this value will no longer be the correct one, but the user may miss this fact and use it.
2. These days, most browsers support some kind of saved form information and auto-completion of form fields based upon the past values. This pretty much serves the same purpose as the cookies did, but in a safer manner.
So, in short, does anybody object to us dropping support for these 'cookies' in WebSubmit? If not, we'll go ahead and drop them.
Thanks for your feedback. Best wishes, Nick.
