Forminator Form’s Autofill

  • Resolved silindo

    (@silindo)


    1 year, 2 months ago

    I need advice regarding the Autofill feature. Below, I’ve asked three questions but the first one (on Autofill) is the most important for me.

    QUESTION 1 (AUTOFILL) – How do I generate a Forminator form that is pre-filled with values that the User will have submitted already?

    EXAMPLE – Think of students who complete and submit a Student Registration Form when registering for the first semester and if they register again for the second semester they should receive or access a form with certain fields that are pre-populated with the data they (Students) will have submitted during the first registration so they don’t complete the whole form all over again. 

    I’m not sure if for this to work well, such students would have to create an account first, on my website, so they can complete the said registration form (for the first time) as logged-in users. 

    QUESTION 2: I understand that Autofill uses the Text, Name and Email fields. So, where a full name (i.e. first name and last name) is entered in a text field, do I select ‘Description’ as an ‘Autofill Source’ if I want both the first name and last name to be pre-filled or auto-populated?

    QUESTION 3: Is there a way to edit submitted entries?

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  • Plugin Support Amin – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support2)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hello @silindo

    Question1:

    The forminator Pre-populate feature allow you to auto fill feilds however it has some limitations you need to send the data using query parameters in your URL, so you need to create a link to second form and add the existing data to URL.

    yourwebsite.com/registration-form/?first_name=John&last_name=Doe&email=john.doe@example.com

    If the second semester registration happens right awa,y it would easy; you just need to add the parameter in form behavior under URL redirection however if you need to pull the data from database, unfortunately at this moment forminator does not have any built-in feature for that; you will have to use a custom coding. You may take a look at our documents about how to use the pre-populated feature.
    https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#pre-populate-form-field-values

    Question2:

    Forminator’s Pre-populate feature relies on URL parameters to populate form fields. If you have a single text field for the full name, you can set it up as follows (it allow you to pre-fill each input separately):

    View post on imgur.com

    Question3:

    Currently, Forminator does not support editing submissions directly through the plugin. However, you can manage submissions in the following ways:

    Export Submissions:
    You can export form submissions as a CSV file for external editing.

    Manual Editing:
    After exporting the submissions, you can edit them using spreadsheet applications like Excel or Google Sheets. Note that edited submissions cannot be re-imported into Forminator.

    Edit data in database:
    If you have the knowledge you can directly edit the data from database, however, I don’t recommend that. The table names are frmt_form_entry and frmt_form_entry_meta.

    Kind Regards
    Amin

    Thread Starter silindo

    (@silindo)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hi Amin,

    Thank you very much for your quick and helpful response.

    I have one final question for now. In your response to my Question 1 you mentioned custom coding (“… however if you need to pull the data from database, unfortunately at this moment forminator does not have any built-in feature for that; you will have to use a custom coding“). Custom code is something I’m willing to consider because it might even give one a competitive edge.

    QUESTION: How much would if cost me, maybe a ballpark figure for now, for you (the creators of the Forminator plugin) to create a custom code that would pull data from the database for the purpose of pre-filling a form with values that have already been submitted?

    BACKGROUND – The reason I’m asking these questions is because there’s a brilliant solution that will rely on the Forminator Pro plugin that I’ll be pitching to a group of potential clients on the first week of April. I’m in South Africa.

    Regards,

    Silindo

    Plugin Support Imran – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support9)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hello @silindo,

    I hope things are going well for you.

    So, where a full name (i.e. first name and last name) is entered in a text field

    If you want both first and last names in the same text field, you must select “Display Name” from the Autofill option. This way, logged-in students can see their name in the prefilled field.
    This is how it looks:- https://monosnap.com/file/oBZy4uqwWZ65zXYchkFQ2Ys549Dz1i (If you want to display them separately, then you can use first or last name in the autofills)

    QUESTION: How much would if cost me, maybe a ballpark figure for now, for you (the creators of the Forminator plugin) to create a custom code that would pull data from the database for the purpose of pre-filling a form with values that have already been submitted?

    We don’t offer any custom development work here.

    For that, you’ll need to hire a developer. so they can provide the required custom code. WordPress provides a jobs directory here: https://jobs.wordpress.net/. If you need further advice about it, feel free to email wpsupport@incsub.com.

    Subject: ATTN: WPMU DEV support - wp.org
    Topic URL:- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forminator-forms-autofill/

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    Kind Regards,
    Imran Khan`

    Thread Starter silindo

    (@silindo)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hi Imran,

    Noted, and thank you very much for your help.

    Regards,

    Silindo

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