prefill all form fields based on contact ID | Voters

prefill all form fields based on contact ID

CJ Gorrell

It would be great to be able to associate each form field with a contact value(custom or standard). If the contact id parameter is added to the form url and a parameter like "autofill=true" is added, the form will pre-fill any field where the existing contact has data. So instead of creating an explicit parameter for each form field, only two parameters are needed, and any updates to the form don't require the url to be updated to match.

December 31, 2022

Sales & Marketing

Merged in a post:

URL parameters to fill custom fields in forms

Robin de Niet

It would be greatly appreciated if we could use URL parameters to pre populate a form field that is a self created custom field, also when the field is hidden in the form
My usecase: I want to create a form where someone can share an email where they go to the form and fill in the email and name of the other person and the other person receives an email with: Hey {{contact.first_name}}, did you know {{other person}} wanted to tell you about...
I asked the GHL support but they told me it was not what the query was intended to be used for... such a shame

April 13, 2026

Keith Besherse

This is the older version of the request, Sales & Marketing Core Platform Varun Vairavan, https://ideas.gohighlevel.com/contacts/p/populate-custom-fields-in-url-parameters

Enoch Leffingwell

I would LOVE to see this.

Brian Foster

This would be a great feature, so I voted for it, but does it open up a security vulnerability where any user could type prefill=true and get all the fields populated for any user who's email address they know?

Tom Bayley

This would also solve the PII security issue of allowing information sufficient to identify a user to be included in browser history and server logs.

Brian Del Terzo

I hope GHL gets eyes on this because I know the team could work this out in no time.
Here’s the idea:
Allow users to select and launch a form directly from a contact record. (The same could apply to contracts as well.)
In my use case, I want to make it easy for our team to collect additional information from a customer using a form that doubles as a guided script—, ensuring nothing essential gets missed.
When selected, the form should automatically prefill with all standard and custom field data from that contact. This would make it effortless for team members to complete or update forms during phone interviews or internal sessions. Once submitted, the form should trigger workflows (like sending agreements for signature) just like any other form submission.

Pedro Uzcátegui

This is totally possible btw

Cate Scolnik

Have you seen and tried this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4hjy-fdZPA

It's a short video on how to use trigger links to get form fields prefilled, and tells you why you should include the contact ID. The code to add is in the comments too.

Lars Nelissen

This works but not on mobile: https://example.com/widget/form/abc123xyz?contact_id={{contact.id}}&prefill=true

It populates nicely on desktop, but not on mobile. The 'birth date' field also doesn't pre-populate.

Pascal Dörflinger

Lars Nelissen This doesn't work on my end, somehow.

Brook Borup

So right now we can use the variables but they only pull the data that was typed into the form before not data that was uploaded or already populated. Its like it does half but it relies on cookies so when the cookies on a browser have to be erased all the data disappears.

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