Passing "Checked" Value to Pre select Drop down

You can pass form field selections via the query string when a form is submitted by using the Redirect option in the Confirmation settings. Confirmation settings are one of the tabs of the Form Settings.

You would select Redirect, then set the full http:// URL to where you want to redirect to and then you would enable the query string builder and build a query string which will then be used when the redirect occurs.

Here is a screenshot showing an example:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/185347/Slingshot/Pictures/Screen%20Shot%202011-11-28%20at%203.56.16%20PM.png

In this example when the form is submitted it is going to redirect to this URL:

http://www.mysite.com/my-page

And it is going to pass this as the query string:

firstname={Name (First):1.3}&lastname={Name (Last):1.6}

When the form is submitted it would redirect to here:

http://www.mysite.com/my-page?firstname=John&lastname=Doe

There are additional options for merge tags also which are in the Documentation. By default the merge tag for selection fields (drop down, radio button and checkboxes) shows the choice label. If you need to return the value (if you configured a different value for the choice) you can append :value to the end of the merge tag. You can find merge tag documentation here:

http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Merge_Tags

Yes, you can do this by dynamically populating the field using the query string method.

- Edit the field you want to populate/set via the query string
- Select the Advanced Tab
- Select the "Allow field to be populated dynamically" option
- Give it a parameter name, the parameter name is what is used in the query string to pass the value (ex. product)
- Save your form

Now when you load the page containing the form, pass the value to the field using the query string (ex. http://mypage.com/myform?product=value.

The value must match the value that was setup for the choice you want to pre-select in a selection field like the drop down, radio button or checkbox field. So it must match one of the available options.

For non-selection fields like the Single Input field it will pre-populate that field with the value that is passed.

You can read more on dynamically populating fields, including via the query string method, here:

http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Using_Dynamic_Population

We'll have to take a look at this locally and see if we can replicate this issue.

The Total displayed on the form is displayed using jQuery so that it dynamically changes, it's probably not being triggered when the value is passed via the query string. We'll take a look and if it's something that needs to be fixed in Gravity Forms, we'll get it updated.

We are planning to release Gravity Forms v1.6.2 this week so if this is a bug we'll get it included in this release.