How to properly prepopulate full name field?

Olutech808
Asked on February 22, 2019 at 03:12 AM

Hi, I am trying to pre-populate a name field between two forms, but I have an issue where the First Name, Initial, and Last Name from the first form are being pre-populated altogether into the First Name field of the second form.
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Example of what I input into the "Full Name" field in the first form:
First Name: John
Middle Initial: E
Last Name: Appleseed
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The pre-populated result I get in the second form:
First Name: John E Appleseed
Middle Initial:
Last Name:
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At the end of my link I appended:
?name={name}
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How should I write the link to get it to pre-populate the name field correctly?
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I also tried:
?name[first]={name[first]}&name[middle]={name[middle]}&name[last]={name[last]}
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...but it resulted in a duplication of the name in all the fields:
First Name: John E Appleseed
Middle Initial: John E Appleseed
Last Name: John E Appleseed
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Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

This is a re-post of a comment on Prepopulating Fields to Your Jotform via URL Parameters
Nik_C
Answered on February 22, 2019 at 04:28 AM

To prepopulate the full name, the link should be constructed like this:

https://form.jotform.com/90522482158962?name[first]={name:last}&name[middle]={name:middle}&name[last]={name:last}

So, the bolded are fields in target form, and in curly brackets is what is coming from the source form.

Hope it helps.

Let us know if you need any assistance.

Thank you!
Olutech808
Answered on February 23, 2019 at 01:39 AM

Thanks for the reply. While trying this out, I did come across a typo in the above example:

https://form.jotform.com/90522482158962?name[first]={name:last}name[middle]={name:middle}&name[last]={name:last}

Which I changed this to:

https://form.jotform.com/90522482158962?name[first]={name:first}name[middle]={name:middle}&name[last]={name:last}

And then your solution worked perfectly!

Thank you so much for your help!

Cheers.