See also: Prefill
You can prepopulate your form fields by including the query strings in the URL. The query component is indicated by the first question mark (“?”) followed by the query parameters in the URL. Multiple query parameters are separated by the ampersand (“&”). The parameters are in key-value pairs where “key” is the field’s unique name and “value” is the field’s prefill value.
For example, here’s a form with fields prepopulated via query parameters:
https://www.jotform.com/220631153630039?name[first]=Jane&name[last]=Doe&email=jane.doe@jotform.com&interests=News,Health,Sports
This also works on embedded forms:
https://jotformer.blogspot.com/2022/10/signup-form.html?name[first]=Jane&name[last]=Doe&email=jane.doe@jotform.com&interests=News,Health,Sports
Generating Form URL with Query Parameters
To identify the accepted query strings or parameters on your form
- Open Field Prepopulator, then select Populate Fields at the bottom.
- In the Authorize dialog, select Allow.
- In the Form Picker dialog, choose your form, then select Continue in the lower-right corner.
- On the next page, provide the prefill values for your form by entering them in the form fields.
- Finally, select Generate URL at the top and copy the generated URL.
Note: For hidden fields, you can manually add them as parameters in the URL by identifying their unique names. To learn more, see Field IDs and Unique Names.
Share the generated URL with your users or use the URL structure as a template for prepopulating your form via query parameters from other sources.
See also: How to Automatically Pass Form Data to Another Form.
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184 Comments:
40 days ago
Hi!
How can we prefill the field if the option inside the Dropdown menú is "Chichen Itzá & 2 cenotes"
49 days ago
How can i prepopulate Dropdowns?
148 days ago
how to make one of fields unique in its data ?
183 days ago
How do you use the field populator if you have an enterprise account? And how do fill individual address fields?
203 days ago
I have an issue with dynamic values from URL they're working on some forms but not on others can you please advise
252 days ago
The field populator tool is not working, it stops after i select my form.
253 days ago
Hello,
I want to know if I can autofiil the URL for my web page with this tool
267 days ago
What's the right syntax?
I've used all of these, none of them work.
&employe[first_87]={employe[first_27]}&employe[last_87]={employe[last_27]}
&employe[first_87]=employe[first_27]
&employe[last_87]={employe[last_27]}
&first_87={first_27}&last_87={last_27}
286 days ago
How can i prepopulate with the user emali? can i access the current user email logged into jotform to do this?
I suppose this is not effective on mobile apps.
299 days ago
Hi team,
I trust you're doing well,
I was hoping you could help us ?..or send us some documentation on how to Atuo Populate flieds,
we're running an Wound Care clinic, ..and found a nice Wound Care Assessment form here on Jotform's,
we would like to select an patient's name, ..(top of the form), and ALL the patient's info, ..like surname/ address/ contact details/ medical history ect....needs to auto populate, ...then we can carry on with the patient's assessment...
this will save allot of time, when doing patient assessments
thanks in advance for the feedback,
Best Regards
Brandon,
318 days ago
Is there any way to pass the URL slug of a website as a URL parameter? For example, I have a lead capture form on every blog post on my website, and I'd like to track which pages they're coming from specifically. So I'd like to pass everything after my website's domain into this parameter so when they're saved into my CRM I can organize by what pages of my site are getting the best lead conversions.
352 days ago
Does anyone know how the responses are ranked?
I have done one of those and it shows a list of all the responses multiple times, in reality I just want to know which response was dragged to the top etc
362 days ago
Users who leave their form and then return to work on it -- can they use this generated URL to edit their form without losing past progress?
More than a year ago
I use ActiveCampaign to send emails and would love to be able to pre-populate JotForms with data from ActiveCampaign, so that our users don't have to do the heavy-lifting of form filling. But is that possible with this new feature or would this require a future integration?
More than a year ago
I’m prepopulatimg user information with custom url. Works great.
What I’m trying to do is add a couple invisible ID in background so when they finish form, the returning websocket will include those ID and so I can match response to a specific row ID in my database .
I’ve done this by having a page at the end with these variables I need returned and hiding that page. This is super clunky and prone to errors/typos…. Is there a better way? If I upload say 10 variables in URL, it would be so helpful to get ALL the original url parameters back regardless if they have been used.
Hope that is clear.
More than a year ago
this can be done with embeded forms as well.
If your form is embeded and your URL is:
then to auto popluate the field, do the following
/?uniqueFieldId=myPrepopulatedInfo
for me it was
/?em=myemail@email.com
More than a year ago
I would like to be able to use my form to add in all the information into my PDF then have the customer sign it, is this option available?
More than a year ago
Is it possible to use the URL prepopulating from a Form to a Sign document?
More than a year ago
Hi Guys,
Can't log in on the Field populator URL it says "You have reached login attempt limit. Please try again in a few hours." Could you help fix.
More than a year ago
I want to use Jotform because you guys have a lot more options, but Typeform allows you to dynamically prepoulate embedded forms. Just search for: dynamically-pass-hidden-fields-from-a-url-to-an-embedded-typeform-for-advanced-users
More than a year ago
Can you please add this functionality to embedded forms. Typeform can do it...
More than a year ago
Hi Guys. From some reason I cannot login to the prepopulate tool. It says too many attempts.... tried it twice today. Can you help me out?
More than a year ago
I've send you an e-mail to your support because I'm not able to enter a table form in my pdf document.
Thank you for your help.
Best regards
More than a year ago
Can't login with my Jotform Enterprise login access.
More than a year ago
Can we do this pre-population for multiple choice questions?
The use case is, question "Which states would you like to receive alerts?" and the answer is multiple choice selection of the 50 states and they can select as many as they like. We have an attribute for the person of states that we can pass into url, so it could have PA, NY, NJ. Could we have those 3 states then pre-selected in the form?