https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/text-box-population Gravity Support Forums Topic: Text Box Population en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:59:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/text-box-population#post-10888 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:04:00 +0000 Kevin Flahaut 10888@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@sevendayweekend - I answered this on your other post.</p> <p><a href="http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-do-i-send-dynamic-values-with-the-gravity_form-function#post-10887" rel="nofollow">http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-do-i-send-dynamic-values-with-the-gravity_form-function#post-10887</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/text-box-population#post-10885 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:31:54 +0000 sevendayweekend 10885@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>How do you do this with the gravity_form() function instead of the shortcode? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/text-box-population#post-757 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:48:16 +0000 Carl Hancock 757@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You can re-use the same form id and show the same form. Then you just pass the field values pretty much exactly as you outlined above.</p> <p>Keep in mind this will only work beginning with the 1.2 beta release that is available to existing customers. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/text-box-population#post-753 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:05:15 +0000 Dipity 753@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Each product does have it's own page OR post.</p> <p>Sorry forgot to ask - [gravityform id=1 field_values="page_title=Contact Us&amp;Category=10"] </p> <p>Can page_title be replaced dynamically with the page title in the code above, providing the form is within a page/post?</p> <p>Or will I need 1 form for every single post eg:</p> <p>[gravityform id=1 field_values="page_title=Blue Widgets"]<br /> [gravityform id=2 field_values="page_title=Red Widgets"]<br /> [gravityform id=3 field_values="page_title=Green Widgets"] </p> <p>I do apologise for all these dumb sounding questions, but I need to ensure it will do what I want before purchasing - and I really appreciate the replies so far. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/text-box-population#post-747 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:58:31 +0000 Carl Hancock 747@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@Dipity if each of the products is in fact it's own Page/post and you are displaying the form within the body of the Page/Post content using the shortcode then Alex's example would work fine.</p> <p>If you are calling the form in via a theme template file you would need to use the function call or API filter to accomplish this.</p> <p>It really depends on how you are doing things. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/text-box-population#post-744 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:45:35 +0000 Dipity 744@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>As long as it's doable, thats all I need to know :)</p> <p>As a note, the form will always be on the same page as I want the title from, as an example:</p> <p>Think of it as a product catalogue, with a tabbed enquiry form on each product page, and say you're on the page for Blue Widgets (which has a Title of 'Blue Widgets'), the enquiry form text box would say:</p> <p>Please send me more information on Blue Widgets! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/text-box-population#post-736 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:40:58 +0000 Alex Cancado 736@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Dipity,<br /> Carl forgot to mention that you can also use the shortcode to pass the page title and category to the form if the form. Something like:<br /> [gravityform id=1 field_values="page_title=Contact Us&amp;Category=10"] </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/text-box-population#post-725 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:55:23 +0000 Carl Hancock 725@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>It will work, but not the way you have outlined. Those variables aren't going to work as default text values. Gravity Forms won't know what they are. The values you want to pre-populate a form with would first have to be passed to the form.</p> <p>Form fields are pre-populated via querystring parameters, api hooks, shortcodes or function calls.</p> <p>Depending on how you are using the forms you would have to either pass the page_title and category id to the form via a querystring when linking to the form, or if you are calling the form on the same page as the page_title and category you want to display you would have to either use the API Hooks or the Function call to pass the information to the form.</p> <p>The variables you see for email notifications, etc. (ex. {embed_url}) are Gravity Forms specific variables. </p> <p>I will get a code snippet for how to pre-populate the field using a filter and post it later today. You would have to put this code snippet in the WordPress theme template file the form is called on. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/text-box-population#post-719 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:29:50 +0000 Dipity 719@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Just a quick bump for this - I see the beta for 1.2 is out there - and I watched the screencast on the dynamic population.</p> <p>My question is (since I didn't see it in the screencast, that was more about adding URL parameters) will something like:</p> <p> "Please send me more information on {page_title} {category}" </p> <p>definitely work within a multi line text box in 1.2? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/text-box-population#post-579 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:31:39 +0000 Carl Hancock 579@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We are wrapping up development and testing on 1.2 this week and it should be released sometime next week. </p>