Andy Butland

Umbraco Forms is a commercial add-on for Umbraco providing an editor interface for creating and managing forms. These forms can then be hosted on the website for completion by site visitors, with the entries available for view in the Umbraco backoffice. That describes the usual use-case, but it is also possible to create form submissions - known as records - for a form programatically. Posting for future reference, this illustrative example for Forms 10 shows how this is done:

Since I started at Umbraco the link I've shared the most when helping with support issues has been a blog post article by Dennis Adofi titled "Bumping The Client Dependency Version" . It describes the method used to ensure caches are cleared for client-side assets in the back-office for Umbraco versions up to 8. There's a similar setting for Umbraco 9+ which I've recently had to look up a few times. The configuration setting is at: Umbraco : CMS : RuntimeMinification: Version and is set to a numeric value. It's documented here and, as described, uses a similar version number that can be increment manually or via a build process to ensure the same cache busting behaviour. When upgrading Umbraco to a new version of the CMS you don't need to worry about this, as the version running is already used in the hash that is generated for the cache key. But this doesn't take into account package installs, or your own custom extensions to the back-office....

With Umbraco Forms, you can configure a page to redirect the user to once a form has been submitted. A question came to me about how on that page we can get information about the form just submitted, as well as details of the record created from submission. I'll share the answer here for future reference. We can make use of a couple of TempData values that are set automatically by Umbraco Forms (documentation here ). UmbracoFormSubmitted - The Guid of the Form Forms_Current_Record_id - The Guid of the Record created from the form submission The following code example, valid for Umbraco 8, shows how this data can be retrieved. For illustration purposes, I've implemented it directly in the template for the page the user is presented with after the form is submitted. For production code, likely this would be better in the controller of a hijacked route .