ATLAS FormBuilder - Editing Form Response Answers

This document explains how to edit the answers of a form response from the administrative dashboard in ATLAS FormBuilder.
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Step 1 - Navigate to your form's dashboard and access the response list by selecting one of the following options:
  • The Form Response List button under Quick Links
  • The Manage link in the header of the Response Data panel
  • The Number of Responses link inside the Response Data panel

The dashboard of a form. The "Form Response List" button, "Number of Responses" link, and the Response Data panel's "Manage" link are highlighted.

Step 2 - Click the Details button next to the response whose answers you wish to edit. You will be brought to the response's "details" page.

The response list of a FormBuilder form. The "Details" button of a response in the list is highlighted.

Step 3 - Click Edit These Answers in the header of the page's Answers panel to be brought to the response's Edit Answers page.

The "details" page of an individual form response. The "Edit These Answers" link in the header of the "Answers" panel is highlighted.

Step 4 - Within the page's Questions panel, select the section containing the question whose answer you wish to edit (or select "All" to display questions from all sections). After locating your desired question, select its Edit Answer checkbox to enable editing of its field(s), and modify its answer as needed.

The Edit Answers page of a form response. The "Edit Answer" checkbox of a listed question is selected, and the question's field has become editable.

Alternatively, if you wish to delete your desired question's current answer altogether, you may click its Delete Answer button. A dialog window will appear, and once this window's own Delete Answer button is clicked, the answer value will be cleared.

The Edit Answers page of a form response. The "Delete Answer" button of a listed question is highlighted.

The Delete Answer dialog window on the Edit Answers page of a form response. The window's "Delete Answer" button is highlighted.

If you wish to process any of the form's routing triggers whose conditions will be affected by the question values you have modified, you may also activate the Process Routing Triggers setting within the page's Status panel.

The "Status" panel of the Edit Answers page of a form response. The "Process Routing Triggers" setting is highlighted.

Step 5 - Once you are finished making changes, click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page.

The bottom of the Edit Answers page of a form response. The "Save Changes" button is highlighted.


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Keywords:
ATLAS, FormBuilder, edit, form, response, change, answers, question, field, list, details, routing, app, application 
Doc ID:
78887
Owned by:
Beckett A. in University of Illinois LAS
Created:
2017-12-21
Updated:
2026-04-07
Sites:
University of Illinois Liberal Arts and Sciences