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This guide shows how and where to find your form fields’ unique names and IDs.
Finding the Field’s Unique Name
You can use the field’s unique name to reference its value in other places like in email alerts, on the Thank You page, or in other fields. You can also use unique names to prepopulate form fields.
To get the field’s unique name
- In Form Builder, select the element’s gear icon to open Properties.
- In the Properties pane on the right, go to Advanced.
- Scroll down to the bottom and expand Field Details.
- Copy the value in the Unique Name field.
For form elements that don’t have the Field Details section, you can use the Form Fields tool in the Paragraph element.
The fields’ unique names can also be found in your form’s default email alerts.
To learn more, see How to Access Your Email Alerts.
You can use the fields’ unique names in Paragraph elements and email alerts or on the Thank You page.
Finding the Field’s IDs
Customizing the appearance of your fields using CSS is a common task in Jotform where you need the field IDs to apply your custom CSS codes.
To get the field’s IDs
- In Form Builder, select the element’s gear icon to open Properties.
- In the Properties pane on the right, go to Advanced.
- Scroll down to the bottom and expand Field Details.
- Copy the value in the Field IDs field.
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kindly explain how to get MORE THaN ONE aUTORESPONDER EMaILS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE aCCORDING TO THEIR NEEDS IN JUST ONE FORM
I am having the same issue with passing forward each field into my database. I cannot figure out the unique field names?
So is the format like this {name:first_3} ?
What id is this
My 'field ID's' don't exist. Not showing.
Is there a way to get field name and ID in batch? I have 7 pages on the form so it will take me a long time to document them one by one
Very interesting post. Thank you
Prepopulating forms using spread sheet. I clone one form and used the data from the first for to prepopulate. But the name field not prepopulating.All other prepolated using spreadsheet widget. Kindly advice
Can I get a picture of my photo id
It's really good to SEE some field data and ID...
But when we need to FIND among dozens of fields which is a specific one (as listed in e-mail form), we need to perform 3 steps for each field (select, Advanced, Details).
A FIND textbox would be great to locate an specific field...
How do I use this information when importing data. Currently, the entire name goes into the last name field.
Is there a way to manipulate/edit all the form field IDs in one place, other than the email section or each field's Advanced tab? This would be extra helpful as an additional feature.
It starts with: In the form builder... how do I get there?!
gostaria de saber se tem como na opção nome, tirar a etiqueta de sobrenome.
I can't find my ID's for images or regular text fields?
I feel like it takes several emails for you to understand what I;m actually telling you, clearly. I told you I used the unique id and it wasn't working. I know where to find it, the issue is, it is NOT WORKING! I am putting that into the notification email as a field and when I recieve the email, it is BLANK!
It seems the Unique Name "name" will only prepopulate the "First Name". How do I prepopulate "Last Name"?
I want to make my own image
I can locate the Unique ID under the advanced properties section of the widget settings, but cannot see the field Id's listed anywhere. So, for my "configurable list" type questions, where a respondent must populate multiple fields in one question, I cannot pull the answers into the URL in order to be passed to my 2nd form.
Hm. Yes. I already found out how to identify the field ID's.... The problem is however, this doesn't work for the star rating field :-(. Do you guys have another way to approach the field ID 's? CSS coding is worthless without proper field ID's.....
i do not see field details on the advanced tab i see only the headings: Shrink, Move to A New Line, Hide Field. I am unable to scroll any further down
Hi, is there a way to find the ID of an upload field so that i can give the person the link
How does the keyboard shortcut for getting all the field names work on a mac? Shift+Cmd+I doesn't seems to be working for me.
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Hi,
This feature used to work for me in the old way displayed on video. But new one way is not working at all. Can you plz check what I am doing wrong and provide me feedback at your earliest? My forms name are:Sales order form and Technical work log.
Thanks a lot.
I can only EDIT properties, I cannot SHOW properties & therefore can not LOCATE FIELD ID. Please advise. What I do is
1. edit my form
2. click on properties icon for my field
3. voila - EDIT properties; nothing about SHOW or field names.
It is very weird for me , I managed to change it in the Jotform page but on the website the name id field it is half of the size. :/
Thanks, it worked.
I too can't find the field details for some of the labels/field. I want to remove the rule(line) dividing Step 5 and Upload Images. I can;t find the field ID to inject CSS to it. It's not appearing on Properties.
It's just fantastic when apps can communicate with one another!
If you haven't used Jotform's API, you're missing out!
It's really neat to see how people use the API!
ndon't see any checkmarks in the check boxes from my form results?
Field Details not appearing under Properties for me as well.
Why is it that in the Properties window, the 'Name:' values have brackets? ex:{name1}.
Are they part of the input field name?
This is somewhat confusing. If these brackets are not part of the field name, then why have them there? They are not in the ID field detail value.
How do I change the field ID name COLOR?
Can I change the ID name? as I want to export the .csv and import into a database but require it to match my ID field name.
How do you find the name of a select.???
What version does this? My locally hosted version does not have this
i cant find the id
How do you find the ID of an picture or image. When I click on properties I don't see it.
Can you change the field ID or Name?