Stumbled upon this thread in my quest for finding smart ways to prefill form fields:
This little question amounted to the Seatable team implementing ways to prefill read-only fields – awesome! But one idea from the thread was dismissed I believe, which is the need to sometimes be able to prefill hidden form fields, which I really would need to be able to do right now
@rdb’s idea was to have these three ways to prefill form fields (the first two were implemented):
…/?prefill_COLUMNAME=VALUE → a field is prefilled with an editable value
…/?prefillforce_COLUMNAME=VALUE → a field is prefilled with a value and the field is set to read-only
…/?prefillhide_COLUMNAME=VALUE → a field is prefilled with a value and the field is hidden
… and it’'s the lasy method I’m super interested in. Did this get implemented as well (cannot find docs on it) and if not, is it something you could reconsider for coming updates?
BTW, was just alerted of this post because I started this discussion.
If you should ever consider implementing this, there are a few suggestions in this post which revolve around the same idea.
Namely:
Create links with pre-filled (and possibly hidden) fields from within seatable, for example in automations / automatically sent mails
Pre-fill relies on query parameters, and they should be urlencoded. You can do that with scripts or via n8n and web hooks, but the easiest thing would be an urlencode() addition to the formula language.
