Is form prefill only available on paid plans?

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#1

hello!
i can’t find the “Field” parameter in my form. is it a plan related issue?

this is what i have
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and this is what the help page says i should have

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thank you!

#2

Maybe your screenshot is referring to configurations of data inside list blocks, and not configurations inside the form block. Can you confirm that?

Please try again to add and config a form block, and if you find trouble, try documenting it with a wider screenshot

#3

Hi @acjnas

yes this is from the configuration of a form. here is a larger screenshot with the default customizable form

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i tried different “destinations”, like send to data source or fwd to email, but same same.

on your side, do you have the “Field” field for every items of your form?

#4

I’ve made more tests and:

  • the documentation is not updated. now instead of Field, we just need to use Map to.
  • prefill doesnt work for sign-up forms, which is very annoying
#5

Yes you are right, it did change from field to map. Also, signup forms seem to have a very different structure from regular softr forms, but you can easily turn a regular form into a signup form.

#6

Oh really? A regular form to sign-up?
How do you do that @acjnas ?
I quickly looked into that but as there was not a password field i quickly gave up

#7

Hi @metafred
As far as I understand from the screenshots you’re trying to prefill the Sign-up form, right?
To be honest, it’s not possible to prefill the sign-up form, but referring to your last question on how to turn the Form block into a sign-up form, here is what I would suggest doing:

  1. Add all the required field on the Customizable form block and map them to the corresponding Airtable fields - Email, Password, Name and anything else you need.
  2. Once the Form gets submitted, run Make or Zapier automation so the users get added from Airtable to Softr. The automations have a password field that can be sent to Softr too.

Let me know if it makes sense :slightly_smiling_face:

#8

@metafred quick question why not use Softr signup forms? with that you don’t need to deal with passwords which makes it more secure.

#9

thanks @Viktoria i’m gonna try that.

@artur i would like to pass extra info in the signup form. prefill is not allowed, so i’m stuck.
basically i would like one user to be able to share a signup link to his friends, and that link would lead to the signup form, with extra info in the url that i could collect when the new user signs up