New Feature: Hide Form Field by URL Parameters

[Jordan_Scott1]

Hi all!

Sharing an update you’ll see this week - you can now hide form fields from a submitters view in Airtable using a new URL parameter. This is meant to create a more seamless user experience by hiding any pre-filled fields on forms.

For example, if you’re creating an NPS or beta feedback survey like you’ll see in the example below. On the right, you will see the experience before updating the URL and on the left-hand side, you can see the experience after.

In practice, here is an example of how this would be accomplished:

• Before
  https://airtable.com/shr7EmCXXraT6OwKk?prefill_Feature=Hide%20form%20fiel
• After: hide_Feature=true being added to the end of the URL
  https://airtable.com/shr7EmCXXraT6OwKk?prefill_Feature=Hide%20form%20field&hide_Feature=true

Additional resources:

• Support documentation: Prefilling a form

Let us know if you have any questions!

[Jeri_Vespoli]

Great.  But, when will we be able to hide the form TITLE?  When embedding forms, that is a huge issue and quite frustrating. Especially if we have two of the same form - one to email, and one on the site.  Both named the same unless we add 'Web' and 'Email' to our form name, which of course then appears in the customer's view of the form.  Yikes, fix this already!

[andylpage95]

@marks did the new form builder break this feature - i can't get it to work anymore

[andylpage95]

@marks 

yeah - pretty sure this doesnt work anymore.

prefill_ does but hide_ does not

https://airtable.com/appxFEc3Vqy3P9CdV/pagyc0qGiTXWosDkc/form?hide_visable=yes
^ visable doesnt hide

https://airtable.com/appxFEc3Vqy3P9CdV/pagyc0qGiTXWosDkc/form?prefill_visable=yes
^ visable is prefilled


Is there a way to use legacy forms? 

[marks]

Hi @andylpage95 - you can hide fields using Interface forms. In your example, change "hide_visable=yes" to "hide_visable=true".

I believe you should be able to continue using "legacy forms" as well, but I recommend trying to use interface forms going forward.

[andylpage95]

ah i see, so it looks like to prefill AND hide a field, i'd do

hide_visable=true&prefill_visable=test

to set visable = to "test"

[marks]

The hide_* parameter should always be true/false. While related, the two options act pretty independently