# Noob question on forms

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/noob-question-on-forms/15325
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [9 September 2019 15:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/noob-question-on-forms/15325 "2019-09-09T15:13:19Z")
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### Author: ![Loic74650](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/loic74650/32/18965_2.png) [@Loic74650](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Loic74650)
#### Post date: [24 September 2019 20:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/noob-question-on-forms/15325/4 "2019-09-24T20:10:08Z")

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Hello  
Quick feedback on how I solved my problem in the end: the join node proved unreliable (maybe I did not implement it right), some sort of timing or cash issue within the browser, not sure.  
Anyways, I eventually used the context approach as described here: [A guide to understanding 'Persistent Context'](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/a-guide-to-understanding-persistent-context/4115)

Everytime a field in my form is altered it stores the new value in a context variable which is saved on disk. At any point in time I can then use context data to compute whatever. Very handy.

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