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Dan_Stevens_
Level 10
November 5, 2014
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Allow tokens to pre-populate hidden form fields in Forms 2.0

  • November 5, 2014
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Rather than create additional smart campaigns/flows to accomodate this, it would be really useful if system tokens (or even a local token) can be used as the default value for a form field - often times these are hidden fields.  For example, when someone opts-in to receive future email communications from us, we need to date-stamp an "optin date" field with the time/date that this took place.  To be able to use the {{system.dateTime}} token as the default value would be very convenient.

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    J
    JeffSm6
    Level 6
    May 7, 2015
    This would be nice. I am wanting to use a hidden field in our forms to determine product interest. The problem is that I don't want the new product interest to replace the old one; I want it appended to what is already there. The default value would look something like this:

    {{lead.Product Interest}}; Interest X

    This could potentially create a string of 2 or more product interests on a lead. I can add this in the Fills Out Form flow steps, but it would be nice to have it contained within the form.
    Grégoire_Miche2
    Grégoire_Miche2
    Level 10
    January 23, 2016

    That would make usage of global forms much more efficient. Issues such as setting a lead value based on the program values would be made very easy, even if it can also be set with change data values in a "fills our form" trigger campaign.

    -Greg

    SanfordWhiteman
    SanfordWhiteman
    Level 10
    January 23, 2016

    This is already possible by including tokens in the page that hosts the form.

    mktoPreFillFields['my_field__c'] = "{{my.program_token}}";

    Grégoire_Miche2
    Grégoire_Miche2
    Level 10
    January 23, 2016

    Hi @Sanford Whiteman,

    Do you mean simply in the HTML? or in a webready forms 2.0 callback? in a script?

    And this would work only on a Marketo LP or also on any web page where the form is embedded?

    Where is this documented? I have not been able to find this on developers.marketo.com.

    Thanks,

    -Greg

    Grégoire_Miche2
    Grégoire_Miche2
    Level 10
    April 6, 2017

    Hi all,

    FYI, this in fact works. I created the following LP to test and demo it:

    Token in hidden field demo

    The setup is:

    form:

    field:

    If you want that the token value always get to the hidden field, just make sure that the form prefill on the hidden field is disabled. If you only want the token to enter the field if it's empty, leave prefill enabled.

    -Greg

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    Anonymous
    April 6, 2017

    Thanks, @Grégoire Michel​!

    Would much rather accomplish it this way and know once upon a time this didn't work.

    Appreciate you doing the legwork to proof that out - I've now removed the extra javascript from our page and went with this cleaner implementation.

    Cheers,

    John

    Grégoire_Miche2
    Grégoire_Miche2
    Level 10
    April 6, 2017

    You are welcome

    K
    kh-lschutte
    February 7, 2020
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    Kenny_Elkington
    Adobe Employee
    Kenny_ElkingtonAdobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    August 17, 2021

    There are several options to do this on Marketo Landing Pages including Greg's great example here.  We have no plans to make this a feature available via form embed code.  You can set default values either static or dynamic with the Forms JS API  See the "Set Values on Hidden Fields on the Form" Example

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