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title: "Form settings - Convert Forms"
description: "What each setting in the Behavior panel does: status, submission storage, spam protection, PHP Scripts and more."
url: "https://www.tassos.gr/docs/convert-forms/features/form-settings"
date: "2026-11-11T03:07:41+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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#  Form settings

##  What each setting in the Behavior panel does: status, submission storage, spam protection, PHP Scripts and more.

 ![Form settings](https://www.tassos.gr/images/2026/11/convert-forms-form-settings-card.png) Heads up: this feature is new in Convert Forms 6 and is only in the latest beta release. On Convert Forms 5, this page won't match your backend. [Download the beta](https://www.tassos.gr/releases/convert-forms-beta) and back up your site first.

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.

[![The Behavior panel open in the form builder, with an arrow pointing at the Behavior icon in the left sidebar](https://www.tassos.gr/images/2026/11/convert-forms-form-settings-behavior-panel.png)](https://www.tassos.gr/images/2026/11/convert-forms-form-settings-behavior-panel.png)

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

## [General](#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- **Status**: Published, Unpublished, Archived or Trashed.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](https://www.tassos.gr/docs/convert-forms/features/tasks) only, emails or integrations, without keeping a copy on your site. See [Disable Submission Storage](https://www.tassos.gr/docs/convert-forms/submission-management/disable-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](https://www.tassos.gr/docs/convert-forms/features/multi-page-forms).

## [Security & Restrictions](#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](https://www.tassos.gr/docs/convert-forms/security/honeypot).
- **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](https://www.tassos.gr/docs/convert-forms/security/min-time-to-submit).

For captchas, blocked email domains and the other spam checks, see the [Spam, Security & Compliance](https://www.tassos.gr/docs/convert-forms/security) docs.

## [PHP Scripts](#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](https://www.tassos.gr/docs/convert-forms/developers/php-scripts) for examples.

## [Conditional Logic](#conditional-logic)

Show or hide elements based on the visitor's answers. See [Conditional Fields](https://www.tassos.gr/docs/convert-forms/features/conditional-fields). Conditional Logic needs Convert Forms Pro.

## [PDF Form Submission](#pdf-form-submission)

Turn each submission into a PDF from a template you write, and attach it to your emails. See [PDF Generator](https://www.tassos.gr/docs/convert-forms/features/pdf-form-submissions). The PDF Generator needs Convert Forms Pro.

## [Google Analytics Tracking](#google-analytics-tracking)

Send an event to Google Analytics on every submission. See [Track Form Conversions with Google Analytics](https://www.tassos.gr/docs/convert-forms/integrations/analytics-tracking/google-analytics).

 Last updated on Nov 10th 2026 14:11