Form Block – Auto Fill Fields?

Hey @salpetriere,
The form block allows you to set placeholder text for each field. Is that what you mean? If not, can you give an example?
Thanks!

Hannah

Thanks for your response @hannahritner.

No, I’m not referring to placeholder text.

In our form we have various sections. It’s a form where people can apply to book a room in a building (no costs involved).

In a section at the top of the form the user is required to specify their first and last name as the ‘applicant’.

Another section towards the bottom of the form requires the applicant to specify the first and last name of the person who will be responsible for the room. That name is likely, though not definite, to be the same as the ‘applicant name’ filled in at the top of the form.

Thus, in the interests of making the user experience of the website as seamless as possible, it would make sense for the first and last name fields of the ‘person responsible’ for the room to be automatically filled in with the first and last name specified at the top of the form as the ‘applicant’.

If the name of the ‘person responsible’ is different however, the user must be able to change those auto filled fields.

We really like your form block. It is incredibly usable from a back end perspective. The fact that it allows website administrators to visually edit the form in the gutenberg editor of the same page that the form is included makes it much much usable than most form plugins (most of them require administrators to navigate away from the edit page interface, and then provide a very poor UI for editing the form also).

This means that my clients, who are not always tech savy, can edit their forms easily. They don’t have to go about finding the form settings buried away in the dashboard somewhere completely separate to the page itself.

Given this, we’d like to continue using it. There’s just one or two little pieces of functionality that it seems to be missing.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Salpetriere.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Yui.

Thanks for clarifying! There isn’t a built-in function for this as of now, but I can run this by the developer and see if this is something that could potentially be added in the future.

All the best,
Hannah

Hi,
Thanks for posting, something like that could be possible with some custom javascript which a developer could code for you. It’s not likely to be something that the block adds, I’m not aware of a form plugin that adds this but I would be curious to see it.

Ben

I’ll note that members and request features and vote on them here: https://www.kadencewp.com/roadmap-blocks/

If we get feedback that a lot of users want it we can push it into development.

Ben

Many thanks for your response @hannahritner and @britner.

It is advanced functionality. I’ll put something together with jQuery.

Thanks for your time.