A response to an eForm can have one of three statuses:
- Not Responded (no questions have been answered)
- Partially Responded (at least one question has been answered but not all)
- Fully Responded (every question has been answered)
Generally, an eForm response can only be Fully Responded (since a user must answer every mandatory question before submitting their response). However, there are a number of circumstances where a fully responded response can become partially responded as follows:
In this circumstance, any existing responses will move from Fully Responded to Partially Responded. This is because the end-user has not seen or answered the new questions or new version of an old question. An end-user will not be notified when questions are added to an eForm and an Administrator will need to manually notify respondents if they want the new questions answered.
An eForm containing partial responses can have the status of every response promoted to Responded. This process results in the last answer submitted for each question being promoted to become the current answer, if that question has no current answer.
This can occur when someone makes a payment when responding but does not answer any other questions and does not submit the answers. If an eForm consists of just a payment element then making the payment will render the response as Fully Responded.