Editing Submissions

Sometimes a submission needs a quick fix. A visitor mistyped their email, you want to record a follow-up note, or you need to mark an entry as handled. Convert Forms lets you open any submission and edit it directly in the backend, no database access required.

How to edit a submission

1. Log into your Joomla backend.
2. Go to Components → Convert Forms → Submissions.
3. Find the submission you want to edit. Use the filters at the top if the list is long (see Searching and Filtering Submissions).

4. Click the submission's ID link in its row.

   

5. The edit screen opens, showing everything tied to that submission.

6. To fix the visitor's answers, head to the User Submitted Data card. Edit any value, then click Save in the toolbar to keep your changes.

   

What's on the edit screen

The edit screen is split into a few cards.

User Submitted Data

These are the actual values the visitor entered, one field per row. Change any value and it updates the stored submission.

Internal Notes

A private notes field for your team. Use it to record follow-ups, context, or anything useful. Notes are never shown to the visitor and stay attached to the submission.

Status

The submission's identity and state, in one card, in this order:

• ID: the submission's unique number.
• Form Name: the form the submission came through. Read-only, since a submission can't be moved to another form.
• Status: an editable dropdown, Published, Unpublished, Archived, or Trashed. This is the same status the list filters use, so changing it here moves the submission between views.
• Date Submitted: when the submission was received.
• Date Modified: when the submission was last edited.

Submission Context

The context Convert Forms captures automatically the moment the form is submitted: who submitted, from where, and on what device. Most rows are read-only with a one-click copy button.

Two rows behave a little differently:

• Joomla Account is editable. Use its picker to re-assign the submission to a different Joomla user.
• Country is shown with its flag.

The card keeps things readable by leaving out redundant, derived values (such as Source Path or Referrer Domain) and only showing UTM campaign rows when they carry a value. The complete set is still available as columns, in exports, and via Smart Tags.

For the full list of what's captured and how to use it, see Submission Context Tracking.