Woodpecker temporarily saves questionnaire responses to the browser as a questionnaire submitter inputs their answers. This convenience feature allows a user to be able to start a questionnaire, then re-visit their progress at a later time. Since these responses can contain sensitive information, this data is encrypted upon saving. When a questionnaire is submitted, the previously saved responses are subsequently deleted.
This feature is enabled automatically. To see this feature in action, simply start a new questionnaire and input some responses. Close the browser window and re-open the same link. You will see your previous answers saved.
Best practices:
This feature is designed for short-term, temporary purposes.
A user's responses can only be retrieved from the same browser and machine that they started their questionnaire on.
A user must have their browser-specific local storage settings enabled. This setting is typically enabled by default, but browser extensions or other security features may disable this setting.
If the browser's cache and/or local storage is deleted, then the previously saved responses will be deleted as well.
Due to size constraints, Image field data is not saved.