What is the best way to capture the Form data Temporarly

Question

Hi,
I have a form with lot of validations.
Suppose user entered some of the fields and he decided to fill rest of the field later on.
So he now want to save the record temporarly without applying any validation and next time when user logs in, the form should be populated with those invalid data and then he continues to fill up the rest of the fields, now once he SUBMIT the page..all the business validations should apply and record is commited.
What is the best approach to acheive this??
Have any one has the done this kind of requirement.
Thanks,
Deepak

Answer 1

This is a little more complex as well because you'll need to save this data in a "temporary" table. Not temporary like global temporary, but just a staging table that has no constraints. In a real application, your table would not have NOT NULL constraints, but your user may not use them.
Along with the previous post, you may need to follow this logic:
1) If the save as draft button is clicked, you save to the table with no constraints.
2) When someone tries to navigate to the form, you first check the "draft" table and if there is a record there, pull it. Otherwise pull from your production table.
3) When the person clicks the commit/submit/etc button, save the data back to your "draft" table, copy the information over to the production table, and delete the temporary record.
It's a lot of coordination honestly - my client asked for the same thing and when I explained the complexity involved for a form that only had 5 or 6 fields, they agreed. And when I say complex, I tell them it will cost them more money, yet provide little benefit. That usually solves it quickly.