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Pre-fill data in a form

This will only work if you have

  • custom field creation permission
  • custom fields in your form (standard activist fields, not action fields)

Note: if your field name has spaces in it, then you need to use %20 in the URL for each space.

A current example of this is the volunteer form for Upgrade Democracy and here is a URL that allows for the first question to be auto-filled.

The custom field is ASUD_PrefRole and the url mechanism is

source=ASUD_PrefRole=Steward

and here is in practice with an extra source parameter showing the person is signing up from the Rebel Toolkit

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/upgrade-democracy-crew-signup?source=RTUDCrew&ASUD_PrefRole=Steward&

You can see this and various other pre-selected choices on the Upgrade Democracy volunteering page

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