bearclaws
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I have a form on my homepage that captures a user's ZIP CODE. When submitted, the form directs the user to a new page with a receiving form (containing more fields).
I want to dynamically populate the ZIP in the receiving form using the ZIP entered in the homepage form. How can I do this?
The receiving form field is populated when I enter a querystring:
/my-receiving-form/?zip-code=12345
...but it does not populate when I post data from the homepage form.
Any ideas?
Passing data to a form only works if you have turned the ability on for the individual fields. If you haven't done that, here is what you need to do.
On the receiving form:
- Edit the field containing the zip code (might be standalone or an address field)
- Go to the Advanced tab
- Check the "Allow field to be populated dynamically" checkbox
- Give the zip code box a parameter name (ex. zipcode, zip-code, etc.)
- Save the form
The parameter is what you pass in the query string as you mentioned in your post above.
On the sending form:
- Edit the form settings
- Go to the Confirmation tab
- Choose Redirect from the available Confirmation options
- Enter the URL to the Receiving form (ex. /my-receiving-form)
- Click the Pass Field Data Via Query String checkbox
- Build your querystring in the provided box. To insert a form field value use the included "Insert form field" drop down which will output a field variable token.
Don't include the initial ? mark. So for example it might look something like this in the query string box if you used a parameter called zipcode and a field variable for a zipcode field on an address box:
zipcode={Address (Zip / Postal Code):1.5}
- Save the form
Please note the query string example I used won't work exactly as I have displayed it as the form field variable for the zipcode itself will vary from form to form.
If the above doesn't work we would need a WordPress admin login to the site so we can take a look and see what is going on. You can send this to us via our Contact Us form and reference this forum thread.
I think I've followed all the directions here but it's not working, the sending form redirects to this - http://www.indonesiamatters.com/book-flight/?name=test+4&email=test%40yahoo.com which is 404.
In sending form which is here http://www.indonesiamatters.com/flights-faq/ I'm using Redirect as http://www.indonesiamatters.com/book-flight/ and with Pass Field Data Via Query String checked, and this in the box:
name={Your Name:1}&email={Your Email:2}
On receiving form I've defined 2 fields with 'name' and 'email'.
Try using different query string parameters. "name" is a reserved parameter within WordPress that can't be used. It will return a 404.
Go to that url and remove the name parameter and you will see that email works. See:
http://www.indonesiamatters.com/book-flight/?email=test%40yahoo.com
What you will have to do is use a different parameter name other than "name". Maybe "yourname" instead.
