Field Alias - Prefill URL
What is prefilling form fields?
Why is prefilling forms important?
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Prefilling forms can save users time and effort when filling out forms repeatedly.
Prefilling a form with previously submitted information, for example, can make the process much faster and easier if a user is redirected to a new form on form submission and fills out a form that asks for some similar data.
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Prefilling forms can help in ensuring that the information submitted is accurate and consistent. For example, if a respondent's name and address are pre-filled, there is less room for typos or any other errors that may occur when manually filling out a form.
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Prefilling forms can improve the overall user experience by making the process of filling out a form more seamless, thereby reducing abandonment rates and increasing user satisfaction.
What is Field Alias?
To do this,
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Provide alternate names (field aliases) to the fields that you wish to prefill.
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Provide the values to be prefilled in your form corresponding to the field aliases and auto-generate the public URL of your form with appended field aliases and their values to be prefilled.
Set Field Alias
To assign an alternate name to your form field,
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In your form builder, navigate to Settings > General > Field Alias - Prefill URL.
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Click
Configure Now.
- Under Field Label, select the form fields you wish to assign alternate names for and enter their aliases in the corresponding text boxes under Field Alias.
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Click Save.
Generate a prefilled form URL
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Click
Generate Prefill URL
under
Prefill URL Builder
as shown.
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In the pop-up, assign the value to be prefilled for each field alias.
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You can also add tracking parameters, such as the Referrer Name to the URL by clicking + Tracking Parameters.
Manually create the URL of a prefilled form
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After assigning field aliases to the fields that you wish to prefill in your form, access the public URL of your form under the
Share
tab.
- Append the field aliases and their values to your URL. To prefill more than one field, you must use an ampersand ( & ) between the field values as shown:
Note: You need to copy the public URL of your form under the Share tab and append the field aliases to the URL manually.
For example:
If you are looking to prefill Department and Organization fields in your form with values ' Zylker ' and ' Marketing ', first assign the field aliases for 'Department' and 'Organization' fields respectively, say 'dept' and 'org'. Next, append ?dept=Marketing&org=Zylker to the form URL as shown:
Prefill a Multiple Choice Field
Prefill a Dropdown Field
Without Grouped Choices
If you wish to prefill a dropdown field, the choice value to be prefilled in the form should be appended to the URL as shown:
https://forms.zohopublic.com/.../
?=
Example:
If you have assigned the field alias name for the Dropdown field in your form as dpd, the form URL should be appended with field alias and its choice value as shown:
If you wish to prefill a dropdown field with grouped choices, you can choose to prefill the form with one of the choices in a group. For this to work, you must append both the choice value and the group name along with the field alias in the form URL as shown:
Example:
If you have set the field alias name for the Dropdown field in your form as
dpd,
where the Dropdown field has 2 groups, say Group1 and Group2 with 3 choices each.
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Group1
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Choice1
|
Choice2
|
Choice3
|
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Group2
|
Choice1
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Choice2
|
Choice3
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If you wish to prefill your form with Choice3 of Group 1, the URL should be as follows:
https://forms.zohopublic.com/..../
?dpd=choice3&dpd_gc=Group1
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