You actually can pre-fill form fields in Airtable and this blog post will walk you through how you can do that. (Prefer video? You’ll find one at the bottom of this post!)
Let’s say you have an application form that you want the STATUS section to automatically populate as “Applicant”.
You will start by clicking the OPEN FORM option. Using the form URL, you will add to the existing URL as follows: ?prefill_FIELDNAME=ENTRY
Going back to our example of having the STATUS field prefill with “Applicant”, it would look like this:
What if the field you want to have prefilled has space? Good question!Let’s say you wanted the pre-filled field to be “Approved applicant”. You would then have to replace all spaces with %20, like this:
Keep in mind that pre-filled form fields are case-sensitive. Your entries will therefore have to be exactly the same in the URL as they should appear pre-filled omn the form.
Can you pre-fill more than one field at a time? Of course you can! Simply use the & symbol between entries, like so:
Let’s say you have an application form that you want the STATUS section to automatically populate as “Applicant”.