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Views required by dispatch() should be generated by creating a view template dispatch.inc. Doing so will leverage standard infrastructure to create a form and insert Petition and (if applicable) Token information so that the Plugin does not need to worry about carrying this metadata across the form submission. The view variable $vv_petition will have information about the current Petition.
Plugins should not update operational records as part of dispatch(). Instead, state should be saved in Plugin-specific tables. See finalize() below for more information.
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