How to Enable or Disable a Form

March 7, 2025

Managing the status of your forms is essential for controlling when they’re active and accessible. For example, if a client wants to launch a form on December 16th for a Christmas sale and pause it afterward until next year, you’ll need a way to Enable and Disable it as needed.

There are two ways to change a form’s status. The quickest way is through your My Workspace page. As an alternative, you can use the Form Settings, which gives you more control, including options to disable the form conditionally.


Enabling or Disabling a Form Through My Workspace

Enabling or disabling a form through your Workspace page is easy. Let’s do it:

  1. On your My Workspace page, hover your mouse over the form and click on More on the right side of the screen.
  2. In the Dropdown menu that opens up, click on Disable.
My Workspace page showing the 'More' menu with the 'Disable' option highlighted in Jotform

If the form is currently disabled, you’ll see it as the option to Enable it.

Option to enable a disabled form in Jotform

Enabling or Disabling a Form Through Form Settings

You can also enable or disable a form through form settings. Here’s how to do it:

  1. In Form Builder, in the orange navigation bar at the top of the page, click on Settings.
  2. In the Form Settings window, click on Enabled in the Form Status section.
Form Status option in Form Settings of Jotform
  1. In the window that opens up, click on the Downward Arrow icon and select Disabled.
  2. Once you’re done, click on Save in the bottom-right corner of the window, and you’re all set.
Disable option and Save button on Jotform

You can also disable a form conditionally, by selecting one of the following options:

  • Disable on Specific Date — Automatically disables the form on a selected date and time.
  • Disable at Submission Limit — Disables the form once it reaches a specified number of submissions.
  • Disable on Specific Date or at Submission Limit — Disables the form when either the selected date is reached or the submission limit is met, whichever happens first.
Disable on Specific Date option Jotform
Disable on Specific Date
Disable at Submission Limit Jotform
Disable at Submission Limit
Disable on Specific Date or at Submission Limit Jotform
Disable on Specific Date or at Submission Limit

When your form is disabled, anyone who tries to open it will see the Warning Message below:

How to Enable or Disable a Form Image-1

Note

When selecting any option to Disable a form, an additional Warning Message field will come up, allowing you to edit or write a custom warning message. Users will see that message when they try to access the disabled form.

You can also check out our guide about How to Limit Submissions in a Form.

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