Coming next Monday (11/10/25)  —  Your work in multi-page forms will be saved automatically whenever you move between pages — helping prevent data loss and streamline form completion.  If your form uses Turn top-level sections into pages (found in Form Settings), this new auto-save behavior is applied automatically.

💡 Why It Matters

Large or complex forms can take time to complete, and users may get interrupted or lose progress due to browser or network issues. With Auto Save on Navigation, your form now saves automatically whenever you move to another section — ensuring your progress is always captured.

⚙️ What’s New

Automatic Saving on Navigation

When filling out a multi-page form, your responses are automatically saved every time you:

• Click the Next or Back buttons
• Click a section in the navigation sidebar
• Or click Save

Please note, if Turn top-level sections into pages configuration is not enabled your responses will be saved as usual with the Save button action.

➕ Additional Guardrails

We’ve added new safeguards to prevent interruptions during saves and submissions for all Kuali forms. If a document is still processing data — such as uploading an attachment or running an integration — the Save, Submit, and navigation options (Next/Back) will be temporarily disabled. Once processing is complete, these actions become active again.

🧭 Other Changes

With the introduction of auto save on multi-page form navigation, we’re also making an update to how saved drafts are handled for forms published with Show saved drafts in Document List enabled.

Previously, when this option was turned on, users saw the following message when attempting to save a document:

We've decided to remove this modal because we got feedback that this warning was confusing and more of a nuance than asset.  Moving forward, it’s assumed that data entered into a university system is accessible to authorized university personnel.