How to set a "pending" status to a field in the database when users make some change in a form?

I’m trying to create a marketplace, where users will can upload their own PNGs (and their info) to be printed on shirts and other clothing stuff.

So I created a form inside a repeater, and set 4 “repeater slots” to each user fill with their art and info. Using filters I already can show only 4 slots for each user.
The database is called “Meu Studio”, and the dataset is “#dataset1” by default.

In this database, I created fields like “name of the art”, “value ($)”, image fileds, etc.

Now I’m trying to set up a field for the “status” of the submited arts, so I can manage when a user send a new art or make changes on it.

I read about “setField” and tryied to put this expression in the submit button, something like this:

(i dont know if the code is right, i’m away from PC now, just trying to give an idea)

onClick_submitButton event {
$w(“#dataset1”).setField (“status”, “pending”);
$w(“#dataset1).save()
$w(”#dataset1").refresh()
}

So it worked, but with 2 problems:
1 - Once the Submit button is clicked, the status value is saved, but the “well done” message only appears for a really shot time, before the dataset refesh (and i need it to refresh to show the new status to the user);
2 - Also, it’s only saving at the first slot of the 4 user slots, someway ignoring the repeater;

I also tryied using a hidden text input and set the value to “pending” as soon as the page appears or the dataset is loaded, so it should change in the database when the users click on the submit button.
This time, the repeater problem was solved, but I found another one:
If the status was already set as “Approved” (as I’m planning to do manually), for example, I could not save this information to the database. It seems that I can’t re-write this status fields if i dont use the “setField” expression :frowning:

So, there’s a way that I can (really) change the status value to “pending” in a hidden textbox (or direct to the database) as soon as the user make a change on a form field and save it by using the submit button?