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Aug 22, 2022 03:56 AM
Hey guys !
i have an interface for my customer with a form and other data.
He wants the form to be prefilled with the same message “long text field” in the interface.
See the screenshot.
it it possible to do that? and how?
Thank you
Aug 22, 2022 06:17 AM
Hi @Slim_BENAZIZA ,
Welcome to Airtable Community!
You cannot prefill forms in the interface , you can only do that in the form link. Please see this help article.
Mar 04, 2023 09:31 PM - edited Mar 04, 2023 09:32 PM
Pre-filled field data within an Interface Form is now possible, thanks to the recent March 2023 updates to Interfaces.
EDIT: FFFSS I can't stand these buggy forum bugs >_<. Now I have the wrong screenshot uploaded capturing the forum bug of my real post that was trying to help. *sigh*
Mar 30, 2023 07:43 AM
Hi there, Is it possible to have a dynamic value prefilled into a form? For instance, I have a library base for a small organization lending library. You can view / search the catalog and if you find a book you'd like to check out, I want to offer a button that takes the viewer to a check-out form with the book pre-filled. Possible? Thanks!
Jun 01, 2023 11:10 AM
Any updates about prefilling a form in interface dynamically?
Let say I want to comment the record (not with the record block), could the "current record" already be filled in the form?
Jun 22, 2023 10:45 AM
Is this documented anywhere?
Jul 11, 2023 07:17 AM
Following up on my own inquiry here. It's possible to set a default value in interface forms, but it is not possible, at least not from what I've encountered so far, to prefill interface forms via url parameters in the same way that you can standard forms.
Jul 12, 2023 04:50 AM
I think it's possible for fields like boolean fields, text fields, single/multiple select, but I haven't found a way for linked records...
Jul 12, 2023 06:58 AM
Oh, really? That'd be helpful, even if it is limited to those fields. Do you have any examples you could share? I've not been able to get it to work using syntax that works for regular forms. I did get filters in interfaces prefilled at one point, but that was pretty complicated and involved some base 64 encoding, which I mostly learned about here: https://community.airtable.com/t5/interface-designer/navigate-between-airtable-interfaces-how-to-gen....
Jul 24, 2023 12:55 AM
Hi Bobby, now even the linked fields can be prefilled!!
What I've done is create a form in the interface, publish, then use the url and write the variables like you would for the other forms. (documentation here).
I think the link you shared is for filters on other types of pages, not for forms.