Hiding form question in form builder prevents it from pre-filling

[tff]

Hi,

I've been using the new airtable form builder.

In order to identify different form users, I created a Form Source field to be pre-filled with the user type, and created a custom link. 

When the field Form Source is visible, there is no problem - the right data is pre-filled in the field. But when I hide the field in the form settings, the data is not populated. 

I remember this working great in form view previously, not sure why it is not working using form builder. Any solutions?

[ScottWorld]

This is a tricky one, because it only works under one set of circumstances.

It will work just fine if you use both “prefill_fieldname” and “hide_fieldname=true” as parameters in your form URL.

So it will work if your form URL looks something like this:

https://airtable.com/appXXXXXXXXX/pagXXXXXXXXXXX/form?prefill_fieldname=12345&hide_fieldname=true

However, if you use the conditional visibility rules in the right margin of the form builder to conditionally hide the field, then you are correct because Airtable WILL NOT submit any values from any fields that are CONDITIONALLY hidden.

I normally recommend Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable to give extra features that Airtable doesn’t offer, but unfortunately, I believe that Fillout acts the exact same way.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld