# Referrer in Users Contact Details

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/referrer-in-users-contact-details/14171>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** community\
**Created:** [May 4, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/referrer-in-users-contact-details/14171 "2020-05-04T15:46:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![illob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/illob/32/2346_2.png) [@illob](https://forum.mautic.org/u/illob)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/referrer-in-users-contact-details/14171/1 "2020-05-04T15:46:52Z")

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**Your software**  
My Mautic version is: v2.16.2  
My PHP version is: 7.3.17

**Your problem**  
My problem is:  
I would like to add the Referrer URL that is already under “Toggle Details”, to the Contact Details.  
Therefore i created a Custom Field and named it Referal.  
The hidden field that saves the Referrer URL locks like this: (Screenshot)

 ![Bildschirmfoto 2020-05-04 um 17.44.53](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/0/0769e1368dd47d5b568bfa75f90715dea0834901.png)

We would like to filter users according to there Referrer URL

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**Author:** ![ekke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/ekke/32/296_2.png) [@ekke](https://forum.mautic.org/u/ekke)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/referrer-in-users-contact-details/14171/2 "2020-05-04T16:01:01Z")

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This should do the trick 🙂

> **[Dynamic Values in Mautic Forms: Date, Time, URL, ...](https://www.leuchtfeuer.com/en/mautic-know-how/mautic/dynamic-values-in-mautic-forms-date-time-url/)**
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> Do you wish to document the date when a form was submitted? Or are you using the same form in multiple places and need to know in which context it was submitted? Those dynamic, calculated values are not regular Mautic features - here is how to...

Best,  
Ekke

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**Author:** ![illob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/illob/32/2346_2.png) [@illob](https://forum.mautic.org/u/illob)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/referrer-in-users-contact-details/14171/3 "2020-05-06T14:58:34Z")

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Thanks for this, i tried but somehow it does not save it to the Custom Field.  
What i am missing are the Rights of the Custom Field. Thats how i did it:

 ![Bildschirmfoto 2020-05-06 um 16.53.47](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/9/9620160770dd0e12e11587109eda82d42b3cbba1.png)

Then the hidden Form, that is mapped to the Custom Field, also there i do miss some settings.  
Do i need to click “Save result” or not? And how about behavior, do i need to click “Show when value exists” No/Yes and “Auto fill data” No/Yes

Probably thats the reason why it does not save it. 🙂

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**Author:** ![ekke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/ekke/32/296_2.png) [@ekke](https://forum.mautic.org/u/ekke)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/referrer-in-users-contact-details/14171/4 "2020-05-06T15:24:18Z")

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Let’s start with the custom field:

> What i am missing are the Rights of the Custom Field.

Can you explain what you mean by that? What is the symptom?

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**Author:** ![illob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/illob/32/2346_2.png) [@illob](https://forum.mautic.org/u/illob)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/referrer-in-users-contact-details/14171/5 "2020-05-06T15:38:13Z")

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it works now.  
It saves the “Referal” to the Custom Field “Referal”. So far happy.  
Now i am working on Segment those contact with a specific Referal URL. But i do not get any result by doing this. Also not, if i include the exact same URL that is in the contact Field - Referal Saved.

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**Author:** ![ekke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/ekke/32/296_2.png) [@ekke](https://forum.mautic.org/u/ekke)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/referrer-in-users-contact-details/14171/6 "2020-05-06T16:01:07Z")

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Yeah, glad to hear that! 🙂

For the segment filter: Can you give a specific example? There are so many ways to go (contains, regexp, …)

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**Author:** ![illob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/illob/32/2346_2.png) [@illob](https://forum.mautic.org/u/illob)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/referrer-in-users-contact-details/14171/7 "2020-05-07T08:48:33Z")

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I tried many of them. Name, Referal, for example. (referal ist the custom field i created according the how-to from you)

Anyway, i tried “equal”, “contains”, „not empty“, „ends with“ „like“ etc, but none of them showed a contact. Always “no contact”.

Do i miss something? Probably yes 😐  
If i open Tab Contacts, i can see i do have there 14 Contacts, but with segments, filters, i definitely can not filter them

 ![Bildschirmfoto 2020-05-07 um 10.43.35](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/0/0caf21eee7ce98301b913c08f57338bd880527a4.png)

 ![Bildschirmfoto 2020-05-07 um 10.44.04](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/b/b7453fc392ac66c60d34a4401e371fb62709e8ad.png)

 ![Bildschirmfoto 2020-05-07 um 10.45.17](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/c/c43fa1325685cdffa280e7914174ba049b39958f.png)

 ![Bildschirmfoto 2020-05-07 um 10.47.29](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/9/953e7a43547bee7e14c6ba9043d67bbacd431cc2.png)

 ![Bildschirmfoto 2020-05-07 um 10.48.14](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/9/96243d1fb0272df94ef1928bb6a8d12b407888ae.png)
