https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/passing-url-parameter-to-gravity-form Gravity Support Forums Topic: passing url parameter to gravity form en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:52:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/passing-url-parameter-to-gravity-form#post-66848 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:17:03 +0000 omoplata 66848@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Ah, those solutions are perfect! Thanks. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/passing-url-parameter-to-gravity-form#post-66830 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:02:01 +0000 David Peralty 66830@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You could also just hide the field using a CSS class. I add hidden to the CSS class of the fields I don't want to show up to the users. Then in my style.css I add</p> <pre><code>.hidden { display:none; }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/passing-url-parameter-to-gravity-form#post-66804 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:17:24 +0000 Chris Hajer 66804@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>In that case, you can add the field to the form and set the Visibility of the field to "Admin Only" which will keep it hidden on the front end, but will record the information in the back end.</p> <p>Screenshot: <a href="http://minus.com/mKEwiiyRQ/" rel="nofollow">http://minus.com/mKEwiiyRQ/</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/passing-url-parameter-to-gravity-form#post-66762 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:24:17 +0000 omoplata 66762@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The hidden values will be dynamic. Some will be set via query string sent to the form. Others might be client specific, like say timezone, browser type, IP, etc.</p> <p>None of these would be part of the form UI, but we would want it recorded as part of the form entry in the DB. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/passing-url-parameter-to-gravity-form#post-66748 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:55:34 +0000 Chris Hajer 66748@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Will this information always be the same? You just want it recorded as part of the entry? Or do you have other plans for it? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/passing-url-parameter-to-gravity-form#post-66746 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:38:58 +0000 omoplata 66746@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>by hidden, I mean:</p> <p>&lt;input type="hidden" name="email" value="username@gmail.com"&gt;</p> <p>so as part of the form submission, a field and value are submitted, but are invisible/not part of the form UI</p> <p>The use case for this is that I have some meta data associated with a form that has nothing to do with the UI, but nevertheless needs to get POST as part of the form submission. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/passing-url-parameter-to-gravity-form#post-66741 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:24:57 +0000 Chris Hajer 66741@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You can pass custom values to a page where Gravity Forms is embedded in the query string.</p> <p>Example: <a href="http://example.com/page-with-form/?email=username@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/page-with-form/?email=username@gmail.com</a></p> <p>That will send the value "username@gmail.com" to the form embedded in the WordPress page with the slug of "page-with-form" and populate to form field with a parameter name of "email" (this you have to configure in your form.)</p> <p>For hidden form values, what do you mean? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/passing-url-parameter-to-gravity-form#post-66721 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:59:57 +0000 omoplata 66721@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>How do I pass custom values to a gravity form? This custom value is needed to dynamically populate the fields.</p> <p>Also how do I set hidden form values? </p>