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I have a client who wants to take their 11 page PDF application and make it something people can fill out on the site I made for them (In EE 1.7.0). Long story short, this was not part of the original website process, but has been added in. I’m looking for ways to handle this, that make it easy for both my client and the people filling it out.

I considered a Wufoo form, or similar, but I know the client may balk at the ongoing cost. Freeform could be made to do it as well, but it’s a really big application (medical industry).

I’m wondering if anyone else has tackled large forms before and what may be some good options.

http://www.formtools.org/

I’d do FreeForm.  Please let us know what you decide to do and your experience with it!

Would safecracker not do this too?
Personally in these situations i tend to find you need a lot of custom behaviours before and after actioning various parts of the form - therefore i create a codeigniter or custom programmed forms.

For example in recruitment, i have to allow some people, but those who fail get a delayed automated no thanks response - so more complicated than a simple form to email.

From memory i did see a add-on to do what your after though specifically for EE - i’d have a look over at devot-ee to double check.

Honestly, Freeform or Safecracker should be fine (I’d lean towards Safecracker only because loading them up as entries is significantly easier for data analysis, sorting, etc.). In any case, for a form that long, I’d strongly recommend the use of some intelligent UI tweaks. One big thing that comes to mind would be to use something like Sisyphus to save form content with local storage.

Sisyphus

That way, in case a user closes the window or has some sort of catastrophic failure, they won’t lose everything. Beyond that, with long forms, take it easy and think everything through for the benefit of the form user.