Prefill a hidden form field

[Oliver_Holtz]

I’m using forms for user research and I would like to segment answers from different customer groups, similar to how survey monkey allows you to create different links to the same survey and segment answers accordingly. In this case I want to create I want to create different forms with the same questions, but which have a hidden pre-filled field called “Origin”, prefilled with values like “Facebook”, “Internal” or “Newsletter”, so I can backtrack what kinds of answers come from which channel.

Being able to prefill fields that are hidden from the form would allow me do do this inside of Airtable rather than go to a more complicated tool like Survey Monkey.

Best,
Oli

[Rose_M]

This has been my top needed Airtable feature recently.

[Michael_Tyznik]

This would be very useful for me as well.

[Abdulrahman_Alz]

We’ve added support for prefilling hidden fields in the miniExtensions form. It has full support for all Airtable field types, and much more!

miniExtensions

Prefill Hidden Airtable Fields in miniExtensions Form

With miniExtensions form, you have to choice to allow prefilling any field including the hidden ones. It works by using the prefill_fieldName= parameter.

[xoelipedes]

Agree, this is something 100% needed and I guess not so hard to implement

[Ibrahim_Islam]

We NEEEEED this pleeease

[Evan_Villemez]

Adding my voice to this feature suggestion - the inability to prefill a hidden field is the primary thing that would prevent us from being able to use AirTable over SurveyMonkey for a number of use cases.

[Luke_McFadden]

This is sorely needed, especially to maximize automations.

[Sam_Michel]

Yup, another request for this as well, please. Would be super handy.

Use-case: updating existing data in a table where not all of the fields are displayed to the end user.

[Julian_Keenagha]

This feature is badly needed

[Brooklyn_Music_]

Yes! We need this so badly. Otherwise my forms end up looking like this… oy. Not great for public use.