Prefilling Form URL with hyphenated data

[nisha_elliott]

Hi! I’m trying to create a prefilled form URL, but I believe the prefill isn’t working because I’m trying to prefill information with hyphens. Any ideas on how I can make this work?

Example:
Field Name: Type Name
Example data: Apples - Michigan

Form URL: “https://airtable.com/shrxxxxxxxx?"&“prefill_”&ENCODE_URL_COMPONENT(“Type Name”)&”="&ENCODE_URL_COMPONENT({Type Name})

How do I make sure “Apples - Michigan” doesn’t break the URL (and in turn, not prefill the form)?

[Raminder_Singh]

Hi @nisha_elliott your formula should work.

nisha_elliott:

How do I make sure “Apples - Michigan” doesn’t break the URL

ENCODE_URL_COMPONENT does exactly that. What URL is generated currently?

[nisha_elliott · Accepted solution]

AH we found another error in our formula, apologies! We thought the hyphen just wasn’t translating well into the URL but turns out it was something else!!