Is there anyway to receive the unique name for a form field within the API

Hi, is there anyway to receive the unique name for a form field within the API? If not, can we please have it added? Much better to reference the unique name than the full text - especially if the text is really long.

thanks,

Andrew

Andrew,

I am sorry I was not able to fully understand what you are after. Can you please provide more clearer details.

User guide: How to Find Field IDs and Names

We will wait for your updated response.

Within the API, can we get the unique field name to be returned?

This Submission request example posted on your website:

curl -X GET "https://api.jotform.com/submission/{submissionID}?apiKey={apiKey}"

Returns:

{ "responseCode": 200, "message": "success", "content": [{ "id": "237955080346633702", "form_id": "31751954731962", "ip": "123.123.123.123", "created_at": "2013-06-25 03:38:00", "updated_at": "2013-06-27 04:58:00", "status": "ACTIVE", "new": "1", "answers": { "3": { "text": "Name", "type":"control_fullname", "answer": { "first": "Bart", "last": "Simpson" }, "prettyFormat": "Bart Simpson" }, "4": { "text": "Your Message", "type": "control_textarea", "answer":"My father is choking me. Please help." } }], "limit-left": 9991 }

Within "answers": {} It would make sense to return the unique name also.

Hope that helps a little more?

Cheers,

Andrew

The JSON didn't format very well, apologies. At the moment, per field you receive the properties "text"; "type"; "answer"; "prettyFormat". It would be amazing if we could also get "uniqueName" as defined within the form builder. Cheers.

You can get the Unique Names of each field within the form by using this URL:

https://api.jotform.com/form/{formID}/questions?apikey={apiKey}

Where:

{formID} = ID of the form

{apiKey} = your API key

Look for the "name" on the JSON result like so:

API documentation: https://api.jotform.com/docs/#form-id-questions 

That's great, thanks for this - surprised it's not against the answer too! A

Thanks Jim_R, but I cannot see why you would use field id "12" instead of its unique name in GET /submission/{id}.

I would imagine that for me to get this to work for a very long form, I would get all fields from GET /form/{id}/questions, then iterate through that to locate the unique name for a field that I am after, and find its corresponding field id that way. Then I would use that to find its key value from GET /submission/{id}, and get the answer that way. This seems unnecessarily convoluted, but still more reliable than trying to figure out what answer "12" represents.

Am I going about this the right way, and is there any plans to introduce the unique name in the submission's get?

I'm afraid that that goes outside of our scope so it would be best if you could address the inquiry to our colleagues from API support at api@jotform.com since they have more information and knowledge about the topic.

Thank you for your understanding.

Will do, thanks Nik_C.

I want to say how impressed I am with your customer support from Hasan S. Within hours of raising an API query via email, he notified me of a change to the submission's get with the added unique name to the results. I can work with this and I no longer need a second call just to get that.

"answers": { "4": { "name": "practiceName", "text": "Practice Name", "type": "control_textbox", "answer": "Acacia GP" },
}

Did not expect this response for a free customer, but I have no doubt that once my prototype is proven to work, an account upgrade is definitely forthcoming. Well done!

Thank you for your compliments.

We are happy to hear that you are satisfied with JotForm services. We strive hard to give our users the best services as much as possible.

If you need anything else, don't hesitate to contact us again.

This is great, many thanks.

And - thanks for not changing the answer ID (sorry HealthEngine)!

This is going to make life a lot easier.

A