Form settings

The Behavior panel holds the settings for how your form works: whether it's live, where submissions go, spam checks and your own PHP.

1. Log into your Joomla backend.
2. Go to Components → Convert Forms → Forms.
3. Open your form.
4. Click Behavior in the left sidebar.

Every setting has a working default, so a new form needs no changes here to go live.

General

• Status: Published, Unpublished, Archived or Trashed. Only a published form shows on your site.
• Save Submission Data in Database: on by default. Turn it off to send the data with your tasks only, emails or integrations, without keeping a copy on your site. See Disable Submission Storage.
• Submission Default State: the state each new submission gets, Published by default. Shows only while submissions are saved.
• Progress bar, Show page titles, Show page numbers and Page Transition: how visitors move through a form with 2 or more pages. See Multi-page forms.

Security & Restrictions

• Honeypot Protection: on by default. Adds a hidden field that people never see and bots fill in, so Convert Forms can block them. See Add Honeypot Protection.
• Minimum Time to Submit: on by default, at 2 seconds. Blocks submissions sent faster than a person could fill in the form. See Minimum Time to Submit.

For captchas, blocked email domains and the other spam checks, see the Spam, Security & Compliance docs.

PHP Scripts

Run your own PHP at 4 points in the form's life:

• Form Prepare: before the form renders, to fill in a field or change a dropdown's options.
• Form Display: after the form's HTML is built, to replace, wrap or hide the form.
• Form Process: after the visitor submits and before Convert Forms checks and saves the submission, to change a value or reject the submission.
• After Form Submission: after the submission is saved, to send the data somewhere else or change the ending.

See PHP Scripts for examples.

Conditional Logic

Show or hide elements based on the visitor's answers. See Conditional Fields. Conditional Logic needs Convert Forms Pro.

PDF Form Submission

Turn each submission into a PDF from a template you write, and attach it to your emails. See PDF Generator. The PDF Generator needs Convert Forms Pro.

Google Analytics Tracking

Send an event to Google Analytics on every submission. See Track Form Conversions with Google Analytics.