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!

[Jacob]

100% - would be great to have conditional logic based on url param (ex. if param is blank, hide/show form field)

[Karl_L]

This is great! Just when I needed it (again) :thumbs_up:

[Cameron_Kaiser]

Huge quality of life change, keep it up :thumbs_up: !

[kuovonne]

Jacob:

would be great to have conditional logic based on url param (ex. if param is blank, hide/show form field)

You can already show/hide fields based on conditions from previous fields in the form. This feature lets you hide a field, yet still have its prefilled value be submitted with the form. Previously, prefilled values were not submitted if the the field were hidden.

[Jacob]

Currently conditional logic exist based on a previous form field, not the url param being present or not … unless Im wrong?

I want the control the conditional logic based on the param value itself (not a form field) … not to mention, what if the field in question is the first question in my form (ex. the answer to the param dictates what questions I ask on the form itself)

Do you believe this is possible with the example in my previous comment?

[kuovonne]

Jacob:

I want the control the conditional logic based on the param value itself (not a form field)

You would create a “control” form field to hold the parameter value, prefill the control field with the value, and then hide the control field. Then other fields in the form could show or hide themselves based on the value of the hidden control field.

[Jacob]

So the workaround would be to create a dedicated column with the sole purpose of toggling the actual field I want to control with the parameter?

[kuovonne]

@Jordan_Scott1 Thank you very much for posting this official rollout of this feature. This post gives me the confidence that it is safe for me to make updates to my Prefilled Forms app to support this new feature.

Given the recent rollback of two desirable features (editable shared views and the new formula editor), I think you understand the importance of knowing whether a new feature will stick around before we invest in it.

[Nathan_Heironim]

Additional Feature Request:

Can we also enable “Hiding Form Titles”? This would be most helpful in the application of embedding forms on sites. ( :slightly_smiling_face:

[Currently_Jason]

Totally agree. This is one of my concerns but it’s a step in the right directions.