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Populate Dynamically Not Working

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  1. Bruce_Alfred
    Member

    I have a hidden field that I want populated dynamically so that it shows up on the entries page. I'm using the Query String Method shown in GF documentation.
    My Field Name is "Company Name"
    My Parameter Name is "NA"
    I've setup the form on this page: http://whub34.webhostinghub.com/~videoh6/brucetesting.com/performance-survey/
    When I append ?NA=Test as shown:
    http://whub34.webhostinghub.com/~videoh6/brucetesting.com/performance-survey/?NA=Test
    I expect "Test" to show up under "Company Name" in my Entries page and that a notification be sent when that field = "Test".
    Neither of the above are happening. So, something is awry with my attempts to populate a hidden field dynamically. Please help!
    Thanks,
    Bruce

    Posted 11 years ago on Friday March 8, 2013 | Permalink

  2. Bruce_Alfred
    Member

    Two things:
    1) For future reference -- If I haven't heard back after 48 hours (I posted on Friday and it is now the end of work day on Tues), do I need to repost, or do I need to upgrade to Developer to get Priority Support?

    2) With regard to my question above: After much struggle, I think I figured out the cause of the odd behavior. The dynamic population did not work in Chrome after submitting the form once prior. It took a restart of my computer, a successful dynamic population on the first submission, and unsuccessful dynamic population on subsequent submissions to come to this conclusion. I have had successful submissions / dynamic populations in Firefox.
    Anyone else seen this odd behavior in Chrome version 25 for Mac?

    Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday March 12, 2013 | Permalink

  3. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    Don't repost, or even bump the topic, since that will reset the 'age' on the topic, and it looks like it's been posted just 3 hours ago, rather than 4 days ago. It only hurts you.

    Developer license holders do get priority support which tends to be quicker, but it's still dependent on the number of support requests.

    I have never seen that issue on OSX before. Populating the query string is not normally OS or browser dependent.

    I tested this as you explained above, and the hidden field input_33 was indeed populated with the value I assigned to the query string NA. I did not submit the form. But is this working for you now?

    Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday March 13, 2013 | Permalink

  4. Bruce_Alfred
    Member

    Thanks for the info re posting protocol, and developer license holder support.

    Since you mentioned this is not something you'd seen before, and populating the query string is not OS or browser dependent, I went back and tested on Chrome about ten more submissions. I got mixed results early on... two worked, one didn't. Over the next tests, I figured out what was causing my problem. If I select my form page from the Chrome Navbar history dropdown, and then typed in the query string (?NA=Test) without then reloading the page, the dynamic population doesn't work. If I reload the page with the query string all is good.

    So bottom line is that for the end user the form will work fine. For my testing purposes, I'll just need to reload the page once I enter the query string.

    Thanks,
    Bruce

    Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday March 13, 2013 | Permalink

  5. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    Got it. Thank you for the update and sorry for the confusion. If another topic of yours ever slips through the cracks, please send me an email at chris@rocketgenius.com and I will check into it for you. Be sure to include a link to the topic. Thank you.

    Posted 11 years ago on Thursday March 14, 2013 | Permalink