Hi, Ryan. Thanks for the detailed report. Did you print {publisher:entry_status} to the page just to see what its value is? Also, do you have the Persistent Entries setting turned off or on?

Ryan, if you need to have persistence turned off, you can try adding publisher_lang_id=”x” and publisher_status=”x” to your entries tag.

I’m unable to replicate the duplicate Matrix rows issue. I followed your steps several times and it seems to work each time. For reference this is my test form.

{exp:channel:form channel="pages" return="forms/channel-edit/ENTRY_ID" entry_id="{segment_3}"
    publisher_status="draft"
    include_jquery="yes"
    include_assets="yes"
    error_handling="inline"
    use_live_url="yes"
    datepicker="no"}

{field_errors}{error}{/field_errors}

    <input name="lang_id" value="{publisher:current_language_id}" type="hidden">
    <input name="publisher_view_status" value="draft" type="hidden">
    <input name="publisher_save_status" value="draft" type="hidden">

    <label for="title">Title</label>
    <input type="text" name="title" id="title" value="{title}" size="50" maxlength="100" >

    <label for="url_title">URL Title</label>
    <input type="text" name="url_title" id="url_title" value="{url_title}" maxlength="75" size="50">

    <label for="entry_date">Date</label>
    <input type="text" name="entry_date" id="entry_date" value="{entry_date}" maxlength="23" size="25">

    <label for="expiration_date">Expiration Date</label>
    <input type="text" name="expiration_date" id="expiration_date" value="{expiration_date}" maxlength="23" size="25">

    <label for="comment_expiration_date">Comment Expiration Date</label>
    <input type="text" name="comment_expiration_date" id="comment_expiration_date" value="{comment_expiration_date}" maxlength="23" size="25">

    <label class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" name="sticky" value="y"  {sticky}> Make Entry Sticky</label>
    <label class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" name="allow_comments" value="y" {allow_comments}> Allow Comments</label>

    {category_menu}
        <label for="categories">Categories</label>
        <select name="category[]" id="categories" size="4" multiple="multiple">
                {select_options}
        </select>
    {/category_menu}

    <input type="text" name="my_field_name" id="my_field_name" value="{page_body}">

    {field:page_body}

    {field:page_matrix}

    {if captcha}
        <label for="captcha">Please enter the word you see in the image below:</label>
        {captcha}
        <input type="text" name="captcha" value="{captcha_word}" maxlength="20">
    {/if}

    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
{/exp:channel:form}

If you edit the ticket and use the provided fields for FTP info, only I can see it, and it will get deleted when the ticket is resolved.

I would prefer you replicate this on a clean environment with only Publisher installed first and provide access to that environment instead of the full site. I’ve logged into full sites before and gone down rabbit holes for hours trying to debug.

I updated your template to include the status in the tag:

{exp:channel:form channel="projects"
     publisher_status="draft"

I resaved from the front-end and it did not seem to duplicate on the backend. Can you do some more testing with that?

I never tested an image or most of the fields at the bottom of the form.

Nope, didn’t remove anything, just added that status parameter a few minutes ago.