What this operation supports in Cognito Forms
Opens or closes a specific Cognito Forms form to new submissions.
Request behavior and expectations
Closing a form this way stops it from accepting new entries going forward -- it has no effect on entries that were already submitted before the form was closed.
Implementation details
This is useful for automatically closing a form once a capacity limit or deadline is reached, rather than requiring someone to manually toggle the form's availability in the Cognito Forms interface.
Use cases
Disable a form during high-traffic events or maintenance windows.
- Schedule availability changes and notify downstream systems.
- Enable or disable forms based on user roles from an external system.
- Freeze form intake while data migrations occur.
- Rollback availability if validation or integrity checks fail.