Repeating groups – meaningless corrrelation in export

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Forminator Bug, I think

Repeating groups

1. Export of optional non-data is incorrect
   • The purpose of repeating groups is to correlate the information in each group of line items
   • When the Forminator “Export” data tool is used, the data is compacted, losing the correlation.
   • In my production case, I use Name, Phone, Email. If there is no phone, or no email, the compaction looses the correlation, making the information nonsense. See below
   • I tried making the fields mandatory, but I can’t delete the first item, so I can’t submit an empty list. Use case: booking tickets for me and my friends. I would be a group leader with details, friends just listed. If I only wanted a ticket for myself, so I cant use “mandatory” to force the export to work as expected.
   • I don’t care about the mandatory feature, but I DO need the export to correlate data.
2. If I enter the form data shown here, the CSV export says:
3. “Submission Time”,”Repeater – Text“,”Repeater – Number“,”Repeater – Number“
4. “Jun 14, 2025 @ 3:16 PM”,”a12 / b-2 / c1- / d11“,”1 / 1 / 1“,”2 / 2 / 1“
5. Obviously, the correlations obviously don’t match the data entered.