Pass form data to another form

  • Resolved intelmouse

    (@intelmouse)


    3 years ago

    I’m trying to link two forms on different pages.

    First, form 1 gets brief inputs when one hits a submit, and it opens another page with form 2.

    Second, form 2 gets some of the inputs from form 1. When a user hits a submit, the admin receives data via email.

    Is it possible to pass one form of data to another form on other pages? Thanks.

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  • Nik Sebastian

    (@niksebastian)

    Hi @intelmouse,

    Thank you for contacting us!

    Currently, we do not have the feature to pass data from one form to another. I do agree it would be super helpful, though. I’ve made a note of the feature request and we’ll keep it on our radar as we plan out our roadmap for the future.

    In the meantime, you could use the dynamic field population method to post the data from the first form to the second form using the redirect URL from the first form.

    To do this, you would set the first form’s confirmation method to ‘Go to URL (Redirect)’ (here’s a screenshot).

    Next, to build the URL with query string, you can check out our tutorial here.

    Then you’ll need to add field Smart Tags from the first form, which pulls entry data for a field. For example, the URL could look something like this:

    https://mydomain.com/pagename?wpf20_1={field_id="1"}

    That Smart Tag, {field_id="1"}, would pull the entry value for the field with an ID of 1 from the first form. You’ll need to replace the ID number with the ID of a field on your first form. In case it helps, here’s a screenshot that notes where you can find a field’s ID.

    For the second form, please go to the form builder > Settings > General to select Enable dynamic fields population. This will tell the second form to pull data from the URL parameters into the form fields.

    That’s it! Once the setup is complete, please give the forms a try to check that they are set up correctly.

    I hope this helps! Could you please let me know if you have any questions?

    Thanks! ??

    Thread Starter intelmouse

    (@intelmouse)

    Thanks for the quick reply. That was super helpful! I can’t wait for how WPform transforms. Keep up the good work!

    Thread Starter intelmouse

    (@intelmouse)

    Oh one more question

    I want to retract a value from the first form drop down and populate the value on the 2nd single-line text form. I’m not exactly sure what my value setting should be here.

    Form 1st | Form 2nd
    Drop down | Single line text
    Choose color | Your color is…
    Red ———— | one of three color
    Blue ———– |
    Yellow ——– |

    • This reply was modified 3 years ago by intelmouse.
    • This reply was modified 3 years ago by intelmouse.
    Thread Starter intelmouse

    (@intelmouse)

    Nvm. Your solution worked beautifully. Thanks for the help! Have a great day!

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