https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/prepopulate-the-first-name-last-name-field Gravity Support Forums Topic: Prepopulate the first name & last name field? en-US Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:54:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/prepopulate-the-first-name-last-name-field#post-92037 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:03:53 +0000 Jive Software 92037@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi David<br /> I am coding a stantard software B2B marketing form &amp; bypass logic... </p> <p>First time user:</p> <p>Prerender Hook:<br /> Lands on the form and submits all the GF fields defined in the form. </p> <p>Validation Hook:<br /> If email is valid then I make API requests to other system API's to ensure the API response is valid...</p> <p>After Submission Hook:<br /> The data is then validated and then sent to the several different API's to record the user in other systems like Marketing Automation, Then generate a return user unique GUID in a cookie</p> <p>----------------------<br /> Return user:</p> <p>Prerender Hook<br /> During the prerender hook I look for the return user cookie GUID. If this is the case then depending on the form type I bypass the form.</p> <p>- If return user is requesting printed marketing materials I bypass the form entrily and submit the user data stored in wp_rg_lead_detail based on the unique GUID</p> <p>- If return user is signing up for event orient marketing posts I hack the gf form field array to only present the email and hidden google tracking inputs.</p> <p>Validation Hook<br /> When the return user resubmits the email for event based forms I then hack the validation to only validate for email. If email is valid, I then make API requests to other system API's to ensure the API response is valid...</p> <p>After Submission<br /> Then during gform_after_submission If return user I grab there information from the wp_rg_lead_detail based on the unique GUID and send the data to the several different API's to record the user in other systems like Marketing Automation.</p> <p>My Current Challange:<br /> For return users In between the validation hook and after submission hook the new entry gets added in the wp_rg_lead_detail so I need to figure out a way to populate the gf form fields array with the correct data during the validation that way when gf inserts the new entry into wp_rg_lead_detail it has all data that is stored for that return user. </p> <p>Make sense? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/prepopulate-the-first-name-last-name-field#post-92023 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:21:37 +0000 David Peralty 92023@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Can you give us more insight into why you are trying to populate a value during validation? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/prepopulate-the-first-name-last-name-field#post-91993 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:57:01 +0000 Jive Software 91993@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>What is the best way to prepopulate the first name and last name field during the gform_validation hook? It seems like the $field['defaultValue'] does not work for multi field elements? </p>