A web form makes new records. Someone fills in a blank form, a record lands in your table, done.
None of that helps when the record already exists and the only person who can correct it doesn't work for you. A supplier's price is stale and they're the ones who know the new one. Or you're holding a job sheet with the hours missing, and the contractor who worked them has never logged into anything of yours. The options were handing out a seat for the sake of one field, or a chain of emails ending with somebody retyping it by hand.
InfoLobby now has a second kind of web form. An edit form opens one existing record for someone with no login, and lets them fix it themselves.
Lock the fields they shouldn't touch
Click the lock beside a field and it turns read-only. The visitor still sees it, which is usually the point: show them the order number and the line items so they know which delivery address they're correcting.
Locking is enforced on our servers, not just in their browser. Whatever arrives in the submission, a locked field keeps its value.
One link per record
Open a record, choose Share from its menu, copy the link.
It opens that record and nothing else. There's no table behind it to browse, and no id in the address to increment.
The link also stays put. Send it again in six months and it still works, which saves you the reply from a customer telling you the link you sent them is dead.
Take it back
If a link ends up somewhere you didn't intend, go back to that record's Share menu.
Reset Link issues a new one and kills the old one on the spot. Revoke switches it off with nothing to replace it, until you decide to reset it later.
Both are scoped to that one record. Every other link you've handed out carries on working.
The dialog also shows when the link was last opened, so you can tell the ones that arrived from the ones that never did.
Have an automation send it
Drop {{webform_url:ID}} into an email body in an automation and it resolves to the link for whichever record the automation is running on. An "order shipped" automation emails every customer a link to their own order.
It's the same link the Share menu shows. Reset or revoke it from the record and the automation's copies die with it.
See who opened it
Opening a record through a share link writes a line in the record's Activity tab, with the IP address it came from. Repeat views from one address inside an hour count once, so somebody refreshing the page doesn't bury the history under themselves.
Their edits land there too, the same way any edit does: the fields they changed, and what they changed them to.
Passwords, on any form
Both kinds of form now take a password. The visitor enters it before they see the form, and until they do we send their browser nothing: no field names, and on an edit form no record values either.
It's stored as you typed it, so you can look it up in the form's settings the next time somebody needs telling.
Getting started
Table menu, Configure, Public tab, Create New Web Form. Pick Edit form, choose your fields, lock the ones that aren't theirs to change.
Then open a record and hit Share.
Details on the Web Forms help page.