Can user edit a freeform entry but save as new response?

Question

I saw a similar question about Channel Form, but I am wondering if there is a way to save a new form response each time a user edits a previous form response with Freeform.

A second related question to this: if I were to duplicate a form, can the form be prepopulated with a user's answers to the first version of the form, then the response be saved as a response to the new form. (The form is a survey that users will be asked to complete annually; we need to save their responses for each year, but we don't want the users to have to fill out the form from scratch each time as the it is lengthy).

Answer 1

Sure, wrap the freeform:form tag inside freeform:entries and populate the form with the existing data, then when the form is submitted, it will be a new entry. make sure you pass the entry_id in the url and use that to pull the entry in.

Answer 2

I would like to expand on Jim Wyse's advice, and explain what else I have solved so far and what I am still looking for advice on.

First of all, here is the beginning and end code example to do what Jim suggested (where the entry_id is passed through the url):

{exp:freeform:entries
  form_name="my_survey_name"
  entry_id="{segment_3}"
  }
{exp:freeform:form
  form_name="my_survey_name"
  multipage="yes"
  }

<!-- survey questions here -->

{/exp:freeform:form}
{/exp:freeform:entries}

Within this setup, I can easily pre-populate the values from the original entry like this:

For regular text field:

  <input id="field_name" name="field_name" 
        value="{freeform:field:field_name}" type="text">

For radio buttons:

  <input id="field_name" name="field_name" value="Yes" type="radio"
        {if '{freeform:field:field_name}' == "Yes"}
              checked="checked"
        {/if}>

For select menu:

  <select id="field_name" name="field_name">
        <option value="field_value"
              {if '{freeform:field:field_name}' == "field_value"}
                    selected="selected"
              {/if}>Field Value
        </option>
  </select>

These all work correctly, but by this logic I would expect the following to work for checkboxes (same as radio buttons, but replacing the "==" with "*=" to change "equal to" to "contains"). This, however, causes the page to break and nothing will display.

  <input id="field_name" name="field_name" value="field_value" type="checkbox"
        {if '{freeform:field:field_name}' *= "field_value"}
              checked="checked"
        {/if}>

I am hoping someone else might be able to expand on this to solve the checkbox value problem? Thank you in advance!