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Prefill a hidden form field

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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.

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Oli

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    • March 9, 2020

    Is this the sort of prefilling functionality you’re looking for?

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    • March 9, 2020
    Zollie wrote:

    Is this the sort of prefilling functionality you’re looking for?


    The link @Zollie provided explains prefilling, but that only works with fields that are visible in the form. Prefilling does not work if the field is not shown in the form. Hence this product suggestion.

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    • March 9, 2020

    I second this product suggestion. Being able to prefill fields not visible on forms would allow me to set a record field to ‘requested’ and perform different actions on records containing that value.

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    • April 27, 2020

    :thumbs_up:

    You’ve hit the nail on the head.

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    • April 28, 2020

    I agree, this is definitely needed. There are a variety of survey tools out there one I use that can accomplish this is Cognito Forms. I would say its pretty straight forward, but I’ve never used Survey Monkey so maybe its about the same in terms of how complicated.

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    • May 15, 2020

    This feature would open up a ton of applications and use cases. Would love to see it.

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    • May 15, 2020

    I love to see this function too!

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    • June 13, 2020

    We really need this feature as well.

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    • June 16, 2020

    This feature would be AWESOME !!!

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    This feature would be really useful to me too.

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    • June 30, 2020

    This has been my top needed Airtable feature recently.

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    This would be very useful for me as well.

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

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    • August 19, 2020

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

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    We NEEEEED this pleeease

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    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.

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    • August 29, 2020

    This is sorely needed, especially to maximize automations.

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    • September 7, 2020

    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.

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    This feature is badly needed

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


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    • September 25, 2020

    This is super important - pls implement asap. Makes airtable something we can’t use without this.

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    Adding my support to this request, it would significantly increase the value of the form if you could pass IDs or other values in hidden fields.

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    +1— this would help a lot!

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    +1

    looking forward this

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    • October 11, 2020

    +1 I would love to have this option too

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