What is prefilling form fields?

Why is prefilling forms important?

What is Field Alias?

To do this,

1. Provide alternate names (field aliases)  to the fields that you wish to prefill.
   

2. 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,

1. In your form builder, navigate to Settings > General > Field Alias - Prefill URL.
   
2. Click Configure Now.
   
   
   
   
3. 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.
4. Click Save.
   
   
   

Generate a prefilled form URL 

1. Click Generate Prefill URL under Prefill URL Builder as shown.
   
   
   
   
2. In the pop-up, assign the value to be prefilled for each field alias.
   
   
   
   
3. 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

1. 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.
   
2. 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:

https://forms.zohopublic.com/.../?   =&=

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:

   https://forms.zohopublic.com/.../   ?dept=Marketing&org=Zylker

https://forms.zohopublic.com/....../   ?=&_gc=

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.

Group1	Choice1	Choice2	Choice3
Group2	Choice1	Choice2	Choice3

  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

Note: Use the same choice names in the URL as in your form.

Prefill Embedded Forms