Use the Submission toolbar to decide what Smart Form Builder by Dragwyb should do after a visitor submits a form. Actions are configured per form, so review this section for each form with a different confirmation, storage, or notification requirement.
Open Data Handling
- Go to Smart Forms → Forms and open the form you want to configure in the editor.
- Open the Submission toolbar.
- In Data Handling, find After Submissions Actions.
- Select the actions required by this form, then configure the settings shown for each selected action.
- Click Save in the editor header. Submit a test form to verify the configured behavior.
Understand the available actions
The After Submissions Actions control is a multi-select field. The default selection is Success Message and Save Entry; other actions are available when the form needs them.
- Success Message: show a confirmation after successful processing. Its settings include Message Position (Form Bottom, In Form Place, or Modal Popup), Title, Icon, Message, Background Color, and Text Color.
- Save Entry: store the submitted values in the plugin’s entries database. In its Save Submissions section, keep Save Entry to Database set to Yes to store entries. The control’s source-configured default is Yes.
- Send Admin Email: send a notification to the configured administrator recipient. Set its recipient, subject, and message in the Admin Email Notification section. See Configure Form Email Notifications.
- Send User Email: send a confirmation to an email address supplied by the visitor or otherwise configured for the form. Configure it in the User Confirmation Email section; a valid recipient is required.
- Redirect: return a redirect destination after submission. Enter the destination in Redirect URL under Redirect After Submit. The URL control is required when this action is configured.
- Error Message: configure the fallback error presentation. Available controls include Message Position, Title, Icon, Message, Background Color, and Text Color. The configured default message is “Something went wrong. Please try again.”
- Error Logs: enable or disable validation-failure logging using Enable Error Logging. Its source-configured default is Yes. When selected and an error is recorded, the log can be reviewed under Smart Forms → Error Log.
Choose a practical action set
- Basic contact form: keep Success Message and Save Entry if you want a confirmation and a stored copy of each submission.
- Lead or enquiry form: add Send Admin Email so the responsible person receives a notification. Configure the recipient and content in the email action settings.
- Visitor confirmation: add Send User Email and configure a valid visitor email field as its recipient.
- Thank-you page: select Redirect and provide the destination URL instead of relying only on an on-form confirmation.
- Validation diagnostics: select Error Logs when administrators need a record of validation failures. Logging is separate from saving successful entries.
Test the configured behavior
- Submit valid test data and confirm the expected message, redirect, entry storage, and email actions.
- Check Smart Forms → Entries if Save Entry to Database is enabled. See Review Form Entries.
- Use an invalid test value where appropriate to check the form’s validation response and any selected error logging.
- For email-specific settings, recipient limitations, and message placeholders, follow Configure Form Email Notifications. For transport configuration, see Configure SMTP Delivery.
Screenshot to add: Form editor Submission toolbar showing Data Handling and the After Submissions Actions selector