Is it possible to force form reset on page leave?

[nestordedios]

Question

I have a multi-step form using page reload and I want to know if it is possible to force Formie form reset when the user navigates aways from the form page or closes the browser/browser tab.

I'm currently experiencing that, that a user that started filling in the form and when he/she closes the browser tab or navigates to another URL, when coming back at the form page he/she will continue on the page the user left on.

Is there a setting in the plugin to solve this? Is the following possible?

Additional context

Expected scenario:

1. User navigates to the page and starts filling in the form and going to the next steps/pages of the form
2. On page 3, the user navigates away by clicking on an internal/external link or closing the browser
3. User gets warned that leaving the page will cause filled in data to be lost (beforeunload JS event)
4. When the user comes back to the same form page the form starts empty on the first step.

[engram-design]

At the moment, maintaining the session for the incomplete form is automatic and non-configurable. It's also the only real way that Page Reload + Multi Page forms will work at the moment. There's not really a feasible way that Formie can do something on page-leave, because there's many ways a user can "leave".

You can mess around with sessionKey which is essentially namespacing the session, and that can just be a random generated value. That way, every time someone loads the page, they are given a new session. But this means that when reloading the page the user will be forced to start a new submission.

We absolutely indent to improve this in the next major Formie version later this year.

[nestordedios]

Thank you @engram-design,

I'll check if I can do something with the sessionKey instead.