Autofill fields with data entered previously and saved by same user

[jbyrley]

I could not find an answer that matches this particular question on the forum.

I want a user to be able to enter data in a form, save the data, leave the site, later come back and enter his id/pw, go to the form, then have that previously entered data autopopulate the form. I would like any changes made to that data be saved directly to the same record that the fields were autopopulated from, so the next time the user comes back, the changed data will appear in the form.

Is this best achieved with autofill, dbjoin, or javascript, jquery, etc?

 

[jbyrley]

So I guess the question comes down to --
1) The autofill plugin documentation seems to say autofill will not update the record that the field pulls the data from, rather it will create a new record...so this isn't what I'm looking for. Is there a setting on autofill to update the original record rather than create a new record?
2) If not, is there another plugin or setting to do this?
3) If not, is seems like the solution would be to run javascript (coded into each fields' "default" section) to obtain the data from that record. Does that sound right?

 

[jbyrley]

Okay, never mind, I found it -- autofill has a setting for "edit original record" under "options". This seems to fit the bill.

 

[cheesegrits]

Yes. If trying to edit the original record, set "edit original record" to Yes.

-- hugh