Not sure if this is a bug in Airtable or just a missing feature, but we really need this feature. Airtable needs the ability for us to have hidden fields on forms that will submit data upon form submission.
Currently, Airtable doesn’t accept the values from any hidden fields.
Here’s the situation:
My clients are currently having difficulties with Airtable forms, because prefilling fileds on forms (using the “?prefill_fieldname=
” syntax) only works if the fields that you’re prefilling are actually visible upon submitting.
We’re trying to prefill hidden fields on the form that we’ve hidden using Airtable’s brand new conditional field feature for forms. So we’ve hidden a bunch of fields (using fake values that will always result in false). We’re forcing these fields to be hidden.
These hidden fields actually get their prefilled values filled in correctly!
How do we know this? Because if we type in the fake values to “show” these hidden fields again, the prefilled values are visible! The prefilled values are right there!
But — the only way to get these values to be added into our Airtable database upon form submission is to keep the field visible.
If the field is hidden, Airtable won’t submit the value into the base, which then defeats the purpose of having a hidden field to begin with.
Thanks!