Dynamically pass data from static form to GravityForm ??

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SoundsGood
Member
Hi,

Is there any way to pass along data from a static page/form to a GravityForms form?

Here's what the "form action" code looks like on the static page:
<form action="http://www.website.com/page?sid=1234&appname=JoeBlow" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="sid" value="1234" /> <input type ="submit" name="contactme" value="more information »" class="btn es-noprint" /> <input type ="submit" name="contactme" value="book it »" class="btn es-noprint" /> </form>
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Basically, when someone clicks on the contactme Submit button, I want to pass the "appname=JoeBlow" info into a field within the GravityForms form. Specifically, I need "JoeBlow" to be dynamically inserted in a field in a GravityForms form.

Can this be done? If so, how?

Thanks!
Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday July 14, 2010 | Permalink
Kevin Flahaut
Administrator

Yes, you can allow the fields to be pre-populated via querystring parameters. Click on the advanced tab for the field, check the "Allow field to be populated dynamically" field, then specify the name of the parameter it should receive.

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That's it.

Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday July 14, 2010 | Permalink
SoundsGood
Member

Hmm... it's not working.

It DOES work if it's just a regular link, like so:

Contact Us

But NOT if it's in a form (<form action>) as shown in the original post.

Any thoughts?

Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday July 14, 2010 | Permalink
SoundsGood
Member

UPDATE: I think I figured out the problem...

Whoever wrote the code on the other form used: method="get" ... Which does NOT work.

But if I switch it to: method="post" ... it DOES work.

Now I gotta work on getting it switched over permanently.

Anyway, thanks for your help, Kevin! :)

Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday July 14, 2010 | Permalink
SoundsGood
Member

NEW QUESTION (same topic):

It's not going to be as easy as I'd hoped to get the other form changed to POST instead of GET.

So... is there any way to make GravityForms accept the data from GET instead of POST ?

Thanks.

Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday July 14, 2010 | Permalink
Kevin Flahaut
Administrator

Gravity Forms works with GET fine. All it needs are the variables to be passed correctly via the querystring and for the form fields set correctly to receive them.

There's something odd about your form that's apparently not passing the information correctly.

Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday July 14, 2010 | Permalink
SoundsGood
Member

Hmmm... well, the form code is in my original post. See anything funky in there?

Oh, and again -- the info *DOES* pass correctly if the form is changed to POST, so it can't be *too* odd, right?

Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday July 14, 2010 | Permalink
Kevin Flahaut
Administrator

Yeah, I saw the form from the original post and the only field that I see besides the two buttons is the "sid" hidden field which has the same value as the "sid" hard-coded in the form action. I think there's some sort of issue using the GET method with the parameters in the action link as well.

It works as a POST because you're hard-coding parameters in the form action that still get passed like a GET

Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday July 14, 2010 | Permalink
SoundsGood
Member

I can't figure out what might be wrong with the form while using GET (instead of POST). Oh well.

Kevin, I appreciate your help -- very much. Thanks!

Posted 14 years ago on Thursday July 15, 2010 | Permalink
Kevin Flahaut
Administrator

You're very welcome. Let us know if you figure out what the deal is.

Posted 14 years ago on Thursday July 15, 2010 | Permalink