Hidden fields and providing default values to forms

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Douglas

• March 13, 2013 03:31

Able to set some hidden fields to a webform and also provide default values for some fields. Being able to Make different webforms with different settings for the same app.

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  Roberto Eisenlohr

  • August 10, 2013 17:11

  also, capturing some enviromental data would be great ! 

  Something like url of the webform

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  Beth Schwartz

  • December 09, 2013 15:58

  Me too.

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  James Holland

  • April 06, 2014 15:16

  +1; this issue seems to be on a number of feature requests

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  Sean MacGillivray

  • March 11, 2015 19:18

  You can prepopulate fields in a Podio form, but it's a bit of a hack. I copy the form URL out of the embed code, minus the .js extension, and write out IFRAME code to embed it on the page myself. If you Inspect Element (Chrome or Firefox) on the field you want to pre-populate a value for, it will show you the ID of the form field. Right-click the line of code and click "copy unique identifier" (FF default inspector) or "Copy CSS Path" (Chrome) to copy the field ID/name; make sure to remove the # sign it prepends at the beginning.

  If you add an argument to the form URL in the SRC value of the IFRAME tag, with the ID of the form field as the name of the argument, it will pre-populate with whatever value you specify.

  Here's an example webform: https://podio.com/webforms/4630653/363200

  Here it is with a pre-populated value: https://podio.com/webforms/4630653/363200?field_35908753=MyName

  You can write as many arguments into the SRC value of the IFRAME tag as you like, I believe, although we've only ever pre-populated one value in any of our forms.

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