# form overwrite lifecycle property or not? **URL:** \ **Category:** Tips, Tricks & Best Practices\ **Tags:** workflows\ **Created:** [February 12, 2021, 10:01pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/form-overwrite-lifecycle-property-or-not/31753 "2021-02-12T22:01:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![donrua](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/donrua/32/65886_2.png) [@donrua](https://community.hubspot.com/u/donrua)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 10:01pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/form-overwrite-lifecycle-property-or-not/31753/1 "2021-02-12T22:01:44Z")
If I have a contact that is at Lead, MQL stage or later, and they decide to come to the site and fill out a contact us form, or gateable content form, which has a hidden field to set lifecycle to Subscriber…will that overwrite the stage for my contact, or does HS prevent the backwards step from such automation? ---
**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 7:25am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/form-overwrite-lifecycle-property-or-not/31753/2 "2021-02-13T07:25:18Z")
Hello @donrua, Lifecycle stages are only [meant to progress forward](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/contacts/use-lifecycle-stages#how-do-i-update-the-lifecycle-stage-property) and forms are following this logic. A hidden _Lifecycle stage_ field with the value “Subscriber” will not reset any MQL, SQL, Opportunity etc. value. (If you wanted to do that, it would only be possible [manually](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/articles/kcs_article/contacts/how-do-i-manually-edit-a-property-for-a-particular-contact) or by [clearing the property in a workflow](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/articles/kcs_article/workflows/choose-actions-in-a-workflow#clear-a-property-value) first.) Hope this helps!