Define multistep form steps for Power Pages
The multistep form step provides the flow logic of the form's user experience such as steps and conditional branching. It also provided details about the rendering of a form and additional behavior.
Multistep form steps can also be defined using the design studio. For more information, see Add a multistep form. The details below are viewed and configured using the Portal Management app.
Note
Multistep forms persists the history of the steps a user has visited in an object on an multistep form session table. If an multistep form's steps have been modified, previously created history data could now be stale. Anytime steps are changed, it is recommended that you delete all multistep form session records to eliminate miss match between sequence of steps logged in history and the current sequence.
Each multistep form will be presented on a website has one or more steps. These steps share some common properties, outlined below. Each Step contains a pointer (a lookup) to the next step, except for terminal steps. Terminal steps don't have a next time, and are thus the last step of the multistep form (because of conditional branching, there can be multiple terminal steps).
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | A title used for reference. |
| Multistep Form | The Multistep Form associated with the current step. |
| Type | Available types: Load Form/Load Tab step type: displays properties of forms.
For more information on the settings for these multistep form step types, see their corresponding sections later. Note: The first step can't be of type "Condition". |
| Next Step | The step that will follow the current step. This option will be blank for single-step single form. |
| Target Table Logical Name | The logical name of the table associated with the form. |
| Move Previous Permitted | Indicates whether the user is given an option to navigate to the previous step in a multiple step multistep form. Default is true. Uncheck to prevent the user from being able to move to the previous step. |
Note
The step type of Load User Control is retired and no longer supported.
Considerations for multistep form steps
Multistep form steps can't be reused. If you try to use multistep form step again, you'll see the following message:
"The step <multistep form step name> has already been used earlier in this form. Update the multistep form to use each step only once, and try again."
When that happens, ensure you use don't reuse multistep form steps in a multistep form.
The following conditions are exempt from the limitation of multistep form step reuse:
- When using "Next step if Condition fails" option in step type "Condition".
- When using different—Yes/No—branches.