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Can I prefill a portion of a form?

  • October 11, 2015
  • 15 replies
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Is there a way to prefill a portion of an Airtable form from the html link? For example, with Wufoo you can send a parameter such as field1=“concrete” at the end of the html to prefill the first field.

15 replies

  • Participating Frequently
  • October 14, 2015

Hi Alex,

We do not yet provide the option to pre-fill fields in an Airtable form. This is something we are considering, and we appreciate your feedback (and your patience)!

Thanks,

Victoria


  • New Participant
  • March 14, 2016

Are you still considering this? Would be very useful :slightly_smiling_face:


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  • Participating Frequently
  • March 14, 2016

Hi!

We haven’t gotten around to building the user interface for this yet, but for now, you can use prefill_ parameters in the form URL to prefill specific fields as a workaround.

e.g to prefill the “Name” and “Email” fields for a form, you can do this:

Note that the part after prefill_ must exactly match the actual field name as it appears in the table, not the label used in the form.

Thanks,

Kasra


  • Participating Frequently
  • March 31, 2016

Hi!

We haven’t gotten around to building the user interface for this yet, but for now, you can use prefill_ parameters in the form URL to prefill specific fields as a workaround.

e.g to prefill the “Name” and “Email” fields for a form, you can do this:

Note that the part after prefill_ must exactly match the actual field name as it appears in the table, not the label used in the form.

Thanks,

Kasra


Can this be used for linked fields?


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  • Participating Frequently
  • April 4, 2016

Can this be used for linked fields?


Not at this time, sorry.


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  • Inspiring
  • June 1, 2016

Hi!

We haven’t gotten around to building the user interface for this yet, but for now, you can use prefill_ parameters in the form URL to prefill specific fields as a workaround.

e.g to prefill the “Name” and “Email” fields for a form, you can do this:

Note that the part after prefill_ must exactly match the actual field name as it appears in the table, not the label used in the form.

Thanks,

Kasra


It would be great if I could also use this for hidden fields (not displayed on the form). :slightly_smiling_face:


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I’m using the prefill_ approach and all my dates are appearing one day before the date in the URL.


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  • Known Participant
  • October 17, 2016

This workaround doesn’t seem to work with single-select fields. How can we pre-populate those prior to form submission?


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  • Participating Frequently
  • November 6, 2016

Hi!

We haven’t gotten around to building the user interface for this yet, but for now, you can use prefill_ parameters in the form URL to prefill specific fields as a workaround.

e.g to prefill the “Name” and “Email” fields for a form, you can do this:

Note that the part after prefill_ must exactly match the actual field name as it appears in the table, not the label used in the form.

Thanks,

Kasra


All, I’ve captured this as a feature request here for future reference:


I’m using the prefill_ approach and all my dates are appearing one day before the date in the URL.


I can confirm the same behavior with a date field in my form. I wonder if it’s dateline / time-related, but I don’t plan on being awake at midnight to test this theory :slightly_smiling_face:


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  • Participating Frequently
  • March 12, 2018

Not at this time, sorry.


Still not available?


It would be soooooo useful for us as well…


Please add this feature! We are using airtable for event management (we manage multiple events at once.) It would be incredibly useful to integrate an event registration form, but currently there is no way to guarantee that people register for the correct event.


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  • Inspiring
  • May 20, 2018

Hi!

We haven’t gotten around to building the user interface for this yet, but for now, you can use prefill_ parameters in the form URL to prefill specific fields as a workaround.

e.g to prefill the “Name” and “Email” fields for a form, you can do this:

Note that the part after prefill_ must exactly match the actual field name as it appears in the table, not the label used in the form.

Thanks,

Kasra


Kasra -

Your linked table in reply #4 seems to have gone astray…

Vann


  • New Participant
  • October 5, 2018

Is there a way to prefill_ embeded forms?