# "Someone else has edited this form"

**URL:** <https://forum.dimagi.com/t/someone-else-has-edited-this-form/11999>\
**Category:** Users\
**Created:** [September 17, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/someone-else-has-edited-this-form/11999 "2025-09-17T20:02:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![akwein](https://dimagi.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@akwein](https://forum.dimagi.com/u/akwein)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/someone-else-has-edited-this-form/11999/1 "2025-09-17T20:02:28Z")

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I created a new app for the sake of getting a fresh conceptual start on a very convoluted project we’re trying to set up. I created a brand new app and didn’t start from a copy of the previous one. In the new app I’m sometimes getting a message I’d never seen before: "Looks like someone else has edited this form since you loaded the page. Are you sure you want to overwrite their work?” when I save work on a form. Nobody else knew at the time that I had created this app (and it was at an odd hour), so I’m almost 100% sure there weren’t other people trying to work on it.

I can continue past it, but does anyone know what triggers this message?

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**Author:** ![Ethan\_Soergel](https://dimagi.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.dimagi.com/ethan_soergel/32/543_2.png) [@Ethan\_Soergel](https://forum.dimagi.com/u/Ethan_Soergel)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 9:15am UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/someone-else-has-edited-this-form/11999/2 "2025-09-18T09:15:18Z")

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This is a bug, I’ve encountered it before as well. It happens when you edit the title of a form and then make a different change to the form without reloading the page first. The warning is confusing, but you can safely ignore it in this scenario.

Technical details, if you’re curious: The title change isn’t communicated to the copy of the form in your browser, so when you later click save, you’re submitting a form which forked off an earlier version, just like if someone else _had_ edited the form in the meantime.

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**Author:** ![akwein](https://dimagi.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@akwein](https://forum.dimagi.com/u/akwein)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2025, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/someone-else-has-edited-this-form/11999/3 "2025-09-20T12:23:20Z")

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Brilliant explanation, thanks!