You can have multiple submit buttons, but let CFB figure out which one was used.   I don't remember my investigations on this, but my code ended up using 
    if( $form->submitted ) {
        if( $form->submitted eq 'Cancel' ) {
            return $self->mainmenu_form_generate( undef );
        }
        if( $form->submitted eq '< Back' ) {
            # User wants to return to previous form
            return $self->upload2_form_generate( undef );
        }
... other code to process 'Continue' button ...
    }

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Remember that CFB has specified 
<input type="submit" name="_submit"  value="Next >"
    onClick="this.form._submit.value = this.value;">
to capture which button was clicked.   So it consults the one name to get the value.

If I remember right CFB will substitute _all_ the HTML for all submit buttons when you reference [% form.submit %].   I think this is one reason I switched to generating my own buttons using an included TT2 file, not using CFB.   I wanted a particular layout and CFB just lumped them all together.

In general, the more specific I got about the screen handling, the less useful CFB was for me.   This is not unexpected if I read the author's comments correctly.

Since you are thinking about a cancel button on the same form, remember you may need to 'evade' the normal form error-checking when that button is clicked. 

my  $JSNoValdtnOnCancelBack = <<EOJSFUNC;
    if (form._submit.value == 'Cancel') {
       // skip validation since we're cancelling
       return true;
    }
EOJSFUNC

... later ...
  $o .= $form->render(
          template   => {
            type      => 'TT2',
                :::::
          },
          jsfunc    => $JSNoValdtnOnCancelBack,
      );

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In reply to Re: CGI::FormBuilder Multiple Submit buttons and CGI::Application by shenme
in thread CGI::FormBuilder Multiple Submit buttons and CGI::Application by set_uk

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