SoundsGood
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Just looking for suggestions on this one...
I've got a form that is typically filled out by the user/customer, but occasionally it will be filled out FOR the customer by an outsourced employee while talking with them on the phone. (These employees will NOT have Wordpress access).
What would be the best way to designate that a form was filled out by a particular employee without having an odd field for customers to see?
I hope this makes sense. : )
Thanks...
A field would have to exist if you wanted to denote someones name or to say who the customer is. No other way to save the data.
Nope, fields are output before the submit button. If they appeared after the submit button they would be outside the form itself and wouldn't submit with it because the form closes right after the submit button.
Is the person submitting the form going to be logged in? If so it would be possible to populate a hidden field with the username of the person filling out the form. But that would require a customization via PHP. Easy to do, but takes PHP knowledge to do so.
Since you aren't using logins for this site, another simple solution would be to create a hidden field that is pre-populated by a variable in the url (setup like so). Then employee's could just add their name to the form url like this:
http://yoursite.com/formurl/?completedby=Bill Richards
Bare in mind, they would have to refresh the page after adding the url variable to ensure that the hidden field is able to receive the value and pre-populate it. Not the most elegant solution, but bare bones and simple.
SoundsGood
Member
>> Since you aren't using logins for this site, another simple solution would be to create a hidden field that is pre-populated by a variable in the url (setup like so). Then employee's could just add their name to the form...
This is not a bad idea -- thanks! I love creative solutions.
If need be, though, I'll just add a blank field to the form, or call it "admin only" or something like that. Probably the easiest thing to do.
keith70
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So if I have this: http://yoursite.com/formurl/?completedby=Bill
Then in the gravityform, textfield, advance tab, selected allow field to automaticall be populated. But where do you assign the completedby at, so it knows what to pull?
When you edit a field, go to the Advanced tab and click the "Allow field to be populated dynamically" checkbox it then shows additional options where you need to type in a parameter name for that field (ex. completedby). The parameter name is what is used to pass data to the field.
