How can I populate a form with a dropdown selection.

Hey JotForm Team.

Can I populate a form based on a dropdown where the user makes a selection and then populates the form with a various amounts of questions and input boxes?

Can I tag those boxes with meta data to be extracted for later use?

Alexis 

Hello Alexis - I'm afraid it's not possible to create fields when the form is published. What's possible is to add the fields while on build mode. Then just use conditions to show or hide them based on the dropdown selection.

To better illustrate, I created a demo form. Here's how it's done:

1. Add the DropDown fields with options

2. Next, add the other fields

3. Lastly, create conditions to show/hide these fields based on the option selected from the dropdown. Here's an example:

So based on this condition, we will show Question 1 if Question 1 is selected from the dropdown.

Here's a link to the demo form: https://form.jotform.com/202256365497058 

GUIDE: How-to-Show-or-Hide-Fields-Based-on-User-s-Answer 

Can I tag those boxes with meta data to be extracted for later use?

May we know where do you plan to use the data? I'm asking because if you only like the data to be stored somewhere that you can view at a later date, I believe the form can do just that. When the user submits the form, the entries will be stored on our servers and can be accessed via the form's Submissions page. 

Here's a guide on How-to-View-Form-Submissions.

Thanks for the quick reply,
We would extract data to our servers as we have to stay HIPAA compliant.
I know there is a Jotform API. Can I call the API on each form submitted and extract the data? Can we tag each input field so we can format information properly?
Alexis
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Thank you for the additional details. And yes, you can use Jotform API to fetch/export submission data from a HIPAA form.  You may refer to our API documentation and try using a hipaa-api.jotform.com domain on your command string to access the submission data.

Another way is to use Webhooks in case you're familiar with it. This allows you to get your form submissions posted to a URL. The data will be posted as a multipart/form-data content type.

Here's a guide on How-to-Setup-a-Webhook-with-JotForm.