How to Pre-Fill Tape Forms Fields

[Luis]

I needed a way to prefill my Tape forms and found the solution here. But for future reference, I am creating a separate guide.

If you are using Tape Forms and need to prefill a field, this is how you do it:

1. Publish the form to get the public URL

https://share.tapeapp.com/abcde12345

2. Go to the developer tab to get the external id of the field you want to prefill
   

   

3. Add the following to the form URL:

?prefill.External_Id_1=Hello World&prefill.External_Id_2=Another Value

The full URL will look like:

https://share.tapeapp.com/abcde12345?prefill.External_Id_1=Hello World&prefill.External_Id_2=Another Value

Single/Multi Select

This works with a single/multi-select if you type a matching value. For the multi-select, you can prefill multiple values as follows:

&prefill.multi_select=Sample 1&prefill.multi_select=Sample 2

Tape Calculation Field

This also works with the Tape Calculation field, but you may need to use encodeURI. Here is a sample calculation:

const name = encodeURI(@Name);
const multi = encodeURI(@Multiple line text);

`https://share.tapeapp.com/abcde12345?prefill.name=${name}&prefill.multi_line_text=${multi}`

[1F2Ns]

Thank you for documenting this for me (and everyone else)

[CarsonRedCliffLabs]

thank you! I was literally looking for the details on this yesterday. I knew I had done it before but couldn’t remember the details. So nice to have it clearly documented like this for reference. You’re the best!