Need to pre-populate a webform with existing values using the API

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Tom Urbanowicz

• February 03, 2015 19:16

Hoping someone has solved this problem... I have a webform and I'm using the Ruby API. My workflow is that after a user completes some of the fields and submits the form, the user needs to return to the form to complete additional fields. We need to do the following:
- When the form is submitted initially, create a unique URL (this could, for example, use the Podio Item ID)
- When the user returns to the form via the unique URL, use the API to retrieve Podio Item values previously submitted into the form.
- When the user updates the form, update the Podio Item with the new/updated values.

Anyone able to help? Thanks!

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  Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen

  • February 03, 2015 22:55

  Hi Tom,

  You can find documentation on our developer site. Here's a getting started article on working with items: https://developers.podio.com/examples/items

  /Andreas

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  Tom Urbanowicz

  • February 04, 2015 01:02

  Andreas - I appreciate the reference to the API docs; I'm familiar with those but don't entirely see the connection for what I need specifically. Ideally, I need to retrieve existing values from the Podio Item and display those in the webform. The resulting HTML generated by the Podio webform would be something like the following:

  <input class="text" id="field_85067723" name="field_85067723" type="text" value="Quebec">

  NOTE my example of adding the value of 'Quebec' to pre-populate the field. I can't seem to manipulate this value directly with the API calls I'm seeing (perhaps I'm overlooking them?

  Much thanks!

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  Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen

  • February 05, 2015 19:35

  Hi Tom,

  I see now. I thought you used "webform" as a generic term and not as referring to the Podio webforms. With Podio webforms you have no way to provide default values. You have to build your own form to do what you want.

  /Andreas

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  Tom Urbanowicz

  • February 11, 2015 03:10

  As an FYI, I was able to use http://advancedwebform.com to get what I needed

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  Sean MacGillivray

  • August 26, 2015 18:33

  It is possible to send values with which to pre-populate Podio webform fields in a GET request. Where "field_1234567" is the machine-readable name/id if the field you wish to pre-populate:

  http://podio.com/yourwebformURLhere?field_1234567=prepopulatevaluehere

  You can find the ID/name of the field by using an element inspector on that field in the webform itself. I've been able to set up simple catches for Paypal transaction IDs this way, but you could also create a GET request link that has a bunch of field pre-population arguments in it as well.

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  Adi Burton

  • March 05, 2016 00:57

  I couldn't get Sean's suggestion to work, unfortunately.

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  Marek Hruzik

  • March 05, 2016 07:34

  Hi Adi,

  This blog post should help you.

  br
  Marek

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