Prepopulating mautic form with variables from URL

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Hi All
I would like to know if there are any guides and or suggestions to prepopulate a mautic form which is embedded on a website.
I have seen numerous ways to do this, including php, javascript etc

I am looking for a solution which will do this
domain.com/contact?name=abcxyz

And the above will populate the form.

Any assistance would be appreciated.
M.

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Exactly how it supposed to work.

You need to use the Custom field alias as GET value.
I tested and doesn’t work for me on 4.0.1, might be a bug or I’m using the wrong format.
J

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@joeyk Thanks. main issue is that its not working :wink:
I was hoping we could add a variable to a url where the form resides and the data would be pre-filled. But this is not the case.
Any other suggestions?
M

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@raramuridesign you are aware of this?

And there is also another discussion going on here:

Did you try testing in incognito mode?

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@adiux @rcheesley
I think perhaps this was not explained correctly. Our requirement was to use a variable from the CMS we are using to populate into the form. we have used PHP code to do this, grabbing the variable from the URL.

I was hoping that these could be achieved by default onto the form form, but sadly not.
Anyway our approach works, as long as we do not use the JavaScript integration.

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Hi,
Just tested, and it works in 4.0.1, I didn’t test correctly before my answer above.
You have to make sure, that this setting is on in your form field, that you want to pre-populate:

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Once, this is selected, the form can be prepopulated by calling the page with
https://yourmautic.tld/landingpagealias?email=desiredemail@email.com

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@joeyk Thanks, will test and see what the outcome is. Never seen this setting before so good to know it is there.

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Hello, I have V4.2.2 on VPS installed. I just tried prepopulating the email-field on the form that I added to this landing page: https://m.ionutojica.ro/actualizarea-numarului-de-telefon?email=test@test.com
It doesn´t seam to work. It should work, as you mention. Is it a bug in V4.2.2 ?
I am thinking to add this code to my page (https://stackoverflow.com/a/14070223)

var hashParams = window.location.hash.substr(1).split('&'); // substr(1) to remove the `#`
for(var i = 0; i < hashParams.length; i++){
    var p = hashParams[i].split('=');
    document.getElementById(p[0]).value = decodeURIComponent(p[1]);;
}

An older post (2017) I found, that mention the prepopulating the form-fields should work is this one: Link for leads to update their profile - #5 by Adam .

Do you have an idea, what am I missing?
I am not logged in, I use private session or other browser - the same happens.

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Yes, the built-in Mautic prepopulation just works fine under 4.2.2.
Today we have a Mautic meetup, this will be one of the topics.

Joey

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