Comments on: Everything is Gonna Be ModiFINE: How to Modify Your URLs

By: Johan Lieu

Johan Lieu — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:36:14 +0000

In reply to Chris.

@Chris: can you contact us at Support to see if we can help you with your more in depth issue? http://help.wufoo.com/

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:30:15 +0000

I'm using the Javascript embed form and I want to be able to set the defaultValue depending on buttons that users click on the page. I have this line right now:

'defaultValues':'field4=' + MY_VARIABLE,

When I click a button, MY_VARIABLE updates to have a value that is put in field4. The first time I click a button, this works fine. But the second time I click a button, the original value stays appears. I confirmed that MY_VARIABLE is properly updating...how do I get it to update the defaultValues variable for the wufoo form?

By: Todd Heslin

Todd Heslin — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 21:50:11 +0000

Hey everyone, I only just checked back to this thread and it looks like it's gotten a bit more popular. Nice!

I'll make some responses here but hopefully anyone else with similar questions will relate.

@Lori, no this isn't possible with wufoo out of the box. You're essentially asking the form to 'look up' details first based on a criteria (e.g. email) and then choose to populate their info or show the last form. wufoo can't do this but other solutions might be able to. Contact me if you wanted to discuss some other options (unfortunately I can't give any general advise on this one, it depends on your situation)

@Nathan, same as @Lori's issue, this isn't something that wufoo supports as it's a more complex database operation. Feel free to get in touch.

@Loren, the advice given by @Throw2k is absolutely right. paragraphs are pretty hard to deal with in this case. One solution is to instead of a paragraph, break up the question into different components/questions of which you could transform them all into a new form. Might suit, or maybe not. :)

@Traci, looks like you are looking for the same thing as @Nathan and @Lori.

I think it's safe to say that it's out of the wufoo capability for the search and pre-fill but I've worked on solutions that use the power of wufoo with the flexibility of using a lookup service. So it IS possible, just not standard.

Good luck wufoo-ers!

By: Johan Lieu

Johan Lieu — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 00:21:29 +0000

In reply to Dev-Ray Yarbrough.

@dev-ray: sure can! you can find out more here: http://help.wufoo.com/articles/en_US/SurveyMonkeyArticleType/Code-Manager

By: Dev-Ray Yarbrough

Dev-Ray Yarbrough — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 12:38:07 +0000

Everyone needs a hug. Good morning, I am not very technical but I wad able to create 2 forms. I would like to know if there is a way to put a link to my forms on my website?

By: lori

lori — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 21:57:49 +0000

We run a market with basically the same vendors signing up each month, sometimes up to 100 people. Any way to make this a simple autofill for them if they have signed up before?

By: Johan Lieu

Johan Lieu — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:50:58 +0000

In reply to Justin.

Justin, super glad that this worked for you!

By: Johan Lieu

Johan Lieu — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:49:59 +0000

In reply to Steve Robertson.

That's a great walkthrough Steve! Thanks for sharing.

By: Steve Robertson

Steve Robertson — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:54:07 +0000

The easiest way to deal with this pre-filled forms issue is to have additional menu items in the Forms section for each form in use: currently you have “Entries” “Edit” “View” “Analytics” etc.
Create the pre-filled form under “Entries” and save it – you could even have the option to duplicate/edit before saving.
There is no reason why there could be two entry types in the database – the standard one as now and the new “Pre-filled” one which could be ignored for entry statistics.
wufoo to also add the following:
Under “Code” – In the form code manager add to the “Link To Form” a forth cut and paste section “Pre-filled form selector” – this is a drop down list of all the “pre-filled” entries for the current form – select the drop down entry and hey presto the full code is generated. Cut and paste it where you need it.
This is a simple solution and shouldn’t take up to much programming time.
If I can do it in Access in a couple of hours I’m sure there’s a wufoo genius who can snap this out in the hours of daylight.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:08:50 +0000

Tested today, and this works very well with Office Autopilot & Ontraport. Now I can send out surveys to my contacts without having to ask them to fill in their contact information.