Displaying smart drop down selection from one confiform in other confiform

[Prajakta]

Hi,

We have 2 confiforms – A and B. The form A has a smart dropdown with values from a different form “C”. Depending on the value selected in the smart dropdown of form A we display the next form B to the user. We want to display the dropdown value selected by the user in Form A in Form B with the other values of Form B. We tried to do lookup and set value in the form B but it does not work and the smart dropdown value does not get displayed in form B. Currently we display the smart dropdown from form A on the form B as well  and the user has to select the entries twice – once on form A and second on the form B. Is there a way we can display the value in form B without having the user to go through the selection process again?

Thanks in advance.

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Hi @Prajakta 

Welcome to this community

How do you display the "next form" - what is the method? Do you redirect a user to another page with a form B?

Alex

[Prajakta]

Hi Alex,

Thank You for the prompt response! To answer your question, yes we redirect the user to a different page with the form B.

Best,

Prajakta

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

In this case you can use this method https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Overriding+defaults+of+ConfiForms+Register+macro#OverridingdefaultsofConfiFormsRegistermacro-OverridingdefaultsandsettingfieldvaluesfromURL and pass the selected value from a field to another form via url parameters

[Prajakta]

Hi Alex, Thank you, the help article you shared worked for me. The value from form A is now getting displayed in form B without requiring intervention from users. We have run into another problem now - the redirection to form B is done using dynamic Autolinks created when records are submitted in form A. The changes done help for new records created but do not work for the old records. Is there a way where we can update the Autolinks for old records? I tried to update via Import option but I do not see the Autolink fields for mapping in import. 

Best,

Prajakta

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

You really dont need to have an auto-link... Why? 

But if you prefer to have an auto-link (and it works for you) then you will need to update your old records so auto-links will be regenerated

You can define a temp field in your form and have it updated via API https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/ConfiForms+Server+REST+API+version+1#ConfiFormsServerRESTAPIversion1-UpdateConfiFormsFieldvaluebyfilter

And then removing the field (definition)

Alex