Review every field before you send
Review every field before you send
Automated filling is a draft, not a submission. The review screen exists so the draft becomes something you are willing to put your name on.
What the screen shows you
At the top, a summary: we filled in what we could — how many fields were filled from your profile, how many to double-check, how many still need you.
Then two filters:
- Needs attention — the fields that are blank, uncertain, or belong to someone else
- All fields — everything
And two bulk actions:
- Accept all high-confidence — clears the obvious matches in one click
- Clear all — starts over
The routine that works
- Accept all high-confidence. This is not the review; it is clearing the noise so the review is short.
- Switch to Needs attention. Work down the list. Every field here needs a decision from you.
- Scan All fields once at the end. Read it as if you were the person receiving it.
Three passes, each faster than the last.
What each field tells you
Matched from. The profile field the value came from. When something looks wrong, this tells you where to fix it — and fixing it in your profile means it is right on every future form. See Fix a wrong value in your profile.
Required. The form itself marked this field mandatory. A blank required field is the most common reason a submission bounces.
Skipped — will be left blank. You chose not to fill it, or nothing matched. Intentional blanks are fine; check they were intentional.
Family member / Different party — fill in manually. my-id.ca worked out that this field is not about you. It will not put your details there. You fill it yourself, or leave it for whoever it belongs to — a witness, a representative, an office-use box.
The three failures worth hunting for
1. Right value, wrong person. Your phone number in the spouse's contact block. Everything looks filled; it is filled wrongly. Any form with sections about more than one person deserves a slow read. See Add your spouse, children, and emergency contacts.
2. Stale but plausible. An old address, a previous employer, an expired document number. Nothing flags these because they were correct once. This is the failure that costs you weeks.
3. Silently truncated or reformatted. A date in the wrong order, a postal code without its space, a name that ran out of boxes. Check anything with a strict format.
Saving as you go
When you type a value the form needed and your profile did not have, use + Save to my profile for next time. You name the field, confirm, and it is stored — the review screen confirms with "Saved to your profile — next time we'll fill this for you."
Doing this consistently is what turns the second form of a given kind into a five-second job.
Before you leave the screen
- Every required field has a value.
- Nothing under Needs attention is still unresolved.
- Names, dates, and numbers match the source documents, not your memory.
- Fields about other people contain their details.
Then continue — and see After you fill a PDF for locking the values before you send.
Related
Frequently asked questions
- Is 'Accept all high-confidence' safe?
- It is safe as a starting move, not as a finishing one. It clears the obvious matches so you can spend your attention on the rest — but still scan what it accepted, especially names, dates, and anything about a family member.
- Why is a field marked 'fill in manually'?
- Because it belongs to someone else — a representative, a witness, an office-use box, or a family member the form has not identified. my-id.ca deliberately does not put your details in those.
- What does 'Matched from' mean?
- It names the profile field the value came from. If the value looks wrong, that tells you which field to go and fix.