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I am trying to figure out the best way to do this. I have a form with about 70 fields (around 20 textfields) that my client would like people to fill out. Solspace recommended that I not use Freeform for this purpose. I am thinking of using Safecracker. User’s don’t need to login to fill it out. I realize there might be problems with submitting such a long form, browser crashing, angry users. Trying to avoid that.

Has anyone every made a form where you save it along the way? 

Anyone have any other ideas about the best way to go about this?

I agree, Freeform is not a good fit for this.
I haven’t used Safecracker yet, but it’s definitely what I’ll be using on my next long-form project, along with some jQuery (ValidationEngine) to make it a bit more manageable for the user.

I’ve done multi-page entry forms with SafeCracker, you have to take advantage of the ENTRY_ID redirection:

page1

{exp:safecracker channel="whatever" return="site/page2/ENTRY_ID"}
etc.
{/exp:safecracker}

page2

{exp:safecracker channel="whatever" entry_id="{segment_3}" return="site/page3/ENTRY_ID"}
etc.
{/exp:safecracker}

And so forth. But, I would caution against doing this with guests, because any visitor to that url would have edit access.

But, I would caution against doing this with guests, because any visitor to that url would have edit access.

Good to know!

double post… Silly logitech mouse double-clicks randomly.

Thanks for pointing me in the direction of the entry_id redirection. I was looking for something like that. I think we will have to go in the direction of creating members. Thanks Rob, you are so darn helpful!