https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-form-with-custom-hidden-field Gravity Support Forums Topic: Submitting form with custom hidden field en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:05:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-form-with-custom-hidden-field#post-30203 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:24:39 +0000 Tristan 30203@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hey Hugo,</p> <p>Thanks for the code. Looking at the database structure i've realised that it probably won't suit me. I need all the relevant data in a row, not in separate rows as GF does things by default.</p> <p>I would need to be able to get data for all fields based on the user_login or the page_url, but pertaining to a particular date. Hmmm, come to think of it, maybe it is possible, although rows seems like it would make things easier.</p> <p>Hmmm. At least I know where to go from here to keep working on the idea.</p> <p>Thanks all. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-form-with-custom-hidden-field#post-30081 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:24:52 +0000 hugocf 30081@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Like Chris said, you can use the <code>{user:user_login}</code> fields anywhere in the form definition.</p> <p>I have a similar situation where I included that in the form submission itself:</p> <ol> <li>created a hidden field in the form</li> <li>set its default value to <code>{user:user_login}</code></li> </ol> <p>So, for logged in users, that hidden field will contain his username. For guest users, that field will be empty, so it won't even exist in the lead details db table.</p> <p>Your db query would therefore be something like this (with example <code>filter.*</code> values):</p> <pre><code>select entry.id, entry.lead_id, entry.field_number, entry.value from wp_rg_lead_detail entry left join wp_rg_lead_detail filter on filter.lead_id = entry.lead_id where filter.form_id = 1 and filter.field_number = 1 and filter.value like &#39;%username%&#39; order by entry.lead_id, entry.field_number;</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-form-with-custom-hidden-field#post-30064 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:23:46 +0000 Tristan 30064@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hey Chris,</p> <p>Thanks for your reply. I should have provided the full picture of what I'm trying to achieve.</p> <p>Basically, I want my users to report statistics every week and I want those statistics tied to individual users. I want to then show the previous week/month/year statistics on a chart so I need these statistics to go into a database.</p> <p>That's why I need some way of including a username so that I can query the database using a WHERE statement to select only the statistics tied to a particular user. I also need to link the statistics to a particular action, thus my requirement to submit the name of the page. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-form-with-custom-hidden-field#post-29987 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:37:07 +0000 Chris Hajer 29987@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>That information is already captured by Gravity Forms. Assuming you want it send in the admin email notification, you can just add these two fields to your notification:</p> <pre><code>{user:user_login} {embed_url}</code></pre> <p>along with whatever else you want sent in the notification. If you want to do something else with the information, please post your use case and we'll help you out. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-form-with-custom-hidden-field#post-29965 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:44:08 +0000 Tristan 29965@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Please point me in the right direction if this has already been addressed. I did a few searched but couldn't find anything.</p> <p>I'm wondering how I might go about appending a hidden field to a form submission?</p> <p>I have certain forms that will be submitted by logged in users and I want to append their username and the name of the Page their on to the form, but make this invisible on the form.</p> <p>Any pointers? </p>