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title: "Approving a Form Entry with Multiple Contacts"
slug: "approving-a-form-entry-with-multiple-contacts"
description: "How to approve an infoodle form entry with Repeating People Blocks, processing the Primary and each Repeat tab as a contact, plus unassigned and inactive tabs."
tags: ["Form Approval", "Forms"]
updated: 2026-10-17T04:36:00Z
published: 2026-10-17T04:36:00Z
canonical: "help.infoodle.com/approving-a-form-entry-with-multiple-contacts"
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# Approving a Form Entry with Multiple Contacts

### Approving Forms with Multiple Contacts

If your form uses one or more **Repeating People Block** sections, then the *Primary Form* and each *Repeating Block* section can each be processed as a separate infoodle contact so long as it contains a **Persons Name** field or an **Organisation/Household Name** field.

For multi-contact forms, the **Approve this form** section will show one Tab for the **Primary Form**, as well as a Tab for each **Repeating Block**. ![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/d198920d-a212-4177-85f9-e1abc92e7ab3/Images/Documentation/image-CZ5G789K.png)

Repeating blocks are labelled **Repeat (Block No. - Index No.)** For example, **Repeat 2-3** is from Repeating Block 2, and is the 3rd repeat of that block.

**For Each Repeating Tab:**

1. Select how to process this contact  

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/d198920d-a212-4177-85f9-e1abc92e7ab3/Images/Documentation/image-RB7BGAQ8.png)

There are a number of options from which to choose. Select the one that best applies to each contact.

For example, if all of the contacts on the form are from a single household or organisation your selections could be:

- Primary
  - if the contact exists: **Create as a new household (or organisation) or update existing contact**
- Repeats (all) - **Create as a new contact or update existing contact and add to the household (organisation) specified in tab "Primary"**

1. Choose to create a contact, or assign to an existing record ![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/d198920d-a212-4177-85f9-e1abc92e7ab3/Images/Documentation/image-8VJGDS72.png)
2. Once all repeating tabs are assigned, click **Approve this form** ![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/d198920d-a212-4177-85f9-e1abc92e7ab3/Images/Documentation/image-UVE9NC5M.png)

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**Unassigned Repeating Tabs** - If there are **Repeating Tabs** not yet processed on this form, you will see the below error message, and will need to select an action for any unassigned tabs in order to proceed. ![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/d198920d-a212-4177-85f9-e1abc92e7ab3/Images/Documentation/image-O1KECBOR.png)

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**Inactive Repeating Tabs** - If there is a **Repeating Tab** that has no Person or Organisation/Household Name data, then this will show with a Strikethrough, as shown for the **Primary** Tab below. ![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/d198920d-a212-4177-85f9-e1abc92e7ab3/Images/Documentation/image-NS6MWJ07.png)

This will also be what is displayed if you use the **This Repeat is not Required** option for any repeating section, as has been done for **Repeat 2-1** and **Repeat 2-2** tabs in the above example.

In either the **No Data** or **Not Required** scenarios, you will be able to ignore these inactive Repeating tabs, and will be able to approve the form once the active repeating tabs have been processed.

              **Please Note**

              

If you do not have at least one **Repeating tab** that is configured to Create/update a contact record, then you will not be able to Approve that form entry.

## Related

- [Forms](/forms.md)
- [Repeating People Block - adding multiple people to a form](/repeating-people-block-adding-multiple-people-to-a-form.md)