How to pre-populate my form using data from another form?

  • infocdimies
    Fecha de consulta 20 de mayo de 2024, 15:34
    tengo otra inquietud, es posible que puedo llenar un nuevo formulario partiendo de la informacion que ya le llenado anteriormente?
  • Jerlan Jotform Support
    Fecha de respuesta 20 de mayo de 2024, 15:48

    Hi infocdimies,

    Thanks for reaching out to Jotform Support.  To make sure that we are on the same page, are you trying to Prepopulate the Same Form with Data from a Previous Submission? or Do you have a 2nd form that you want to prefill using Data From Another Form?

    Once we hear back from you, we'll be able to help you with this.

  • infocdimies
    Fecha de respuesta 20 de mayo de 2024, 15:51
    Tengo un segundo formulario que deseo completar previamente utilizando datos de otro formulario


  • Jerlan Jotform Support
    Fecha de respuesta 20 de mayo de 2024, 15:56

    Hi infocdimies,

    Thanks for getting back to us.  I’ll need a bit of time to look into this. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

    Let us know if you have any other questions.

  • infocdimies
    Fecha de respuesta 20 de mayo de 2024, 15:57

    Gracias, quedo atento

  • Jerlan Jotform Support
    Fecha de respuesta 20 de mayo de 2024, 16:45

    Hi infocdimies,

    Thanks for your patience, we appreciate it. Jotform Form’s Prefill allows you to prepopulate your form fields with data from another form in your account. It selects the main submission table of your form as the source where you can map the fields accordingly. Let me show you how:

    1. Open your form in Form Builder (the form that you would like to prefill), and in the orange navigation bar at the top of the screen, click on Publish.
    2. On the left panel, click on Prefill.
    3. Under Prefill, select Form Prefill.

    How to pre populate my form using data from another form? Image 1 Screenshot 110

    • Under Form Prefill, select a form (source form).

    How to pre populate my form using data from another form? Image 2 Screenshot 121

    • Map the fields from the selected form which you wish to prefill to your current form.

    How to pre populate my form using data from another form? Image 3 Screenshot 132

    • Click on the Add More button if you wish to map more fields. Click on the Save button if you are done to save the mapping.

    How to pre populate my form using data from another form? Image 4 Screenshot 143

    • Once fields are mapped, click on the Add a New Prefill button. This will open the selected form’s table.

    How to pre populate my form using data from another form? Image 5 Screenshot 154

    • From the table, you can select the individual submission or select all. The checkbox is available on the left side of each entry. Assuming that you’ve already selected the submissions, click on the Create button. You can only create 20 Prefilled URLs at a time.

    How to pre populate my form using data from another form? Image 6 Screenshot 165

    • The Prefilled URLs are now created. Each of the Prefilled URLs is labeled based on the user’s name from the selected table.

    How to pre populate my form using data from another form? Image 7 Screenshot 176

    • The users can edit the prefilled data. If you do not want users to edit the data, change the permission from Editable to Read Only.

    How to pre populate my form using data from another form? Image 8 Screenshot 187

    • You can select all Prefilled URLs and send or delete them at once. Click the Select All and click Send Invitation to send or click the Delete button to delete.

    How to pre populate my form using data from another form? Image 9 Screenshot 198

    • Clicking on the Send Invitation will open the popup. The recipient’s email address is automatically filled with the user’s email address from the selected form. You can add a message to let users know of the prefilled URL. Click on the Send Invitation button to send.

    How to pre populate my form using data from another form? Image 10 Screenshot 209

    You can select all Prefilled URLs, but note you can only send an invitation to up to five (5) people at a time. Selecting more than this number will display an error message, and the button to send the invitation is grayed out.

    If the above option, won't work for you, you can use another prefill like a Table prefill.

    Give it a try and let us know if you need any help.