Can I prefill a portion of a form?

[Alex_Mohseni]

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.

[Victoria_Hay]

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

[Ida_Aalen]

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

[Kasra_Kyanzade1]

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

[Christopher_Bis]

Can this be used for linked fields?

[Kasra_Kyanzade1]

Not at this time, sorry.

[Tuur]

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

[Stanford_Rosent]

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

[Andrew_Enright]

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

[Sean_O_Shea]

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

Add Form Parameter Support (Pre-fill form fields) Product Suggestions

Would love the ability to pre-fill all form fields using URL parameters. Currently some fields have parameter support (see this Support post for details), but not all. The ability to pre-fill linked fields with parameters could be super useful as people use Airtable to build web applications.