[Video] ProTip: Pre-Fill Form Fields with User Information

Accelerate form completion and improve data integrity with pre-filled digital forms

Tired of filling out the same information in every form? With GoFormz, you don’t need to. Instead, you can enable your Form to auto-fill current User information (like a User's name or contact information) when they create a Form, by adding Calculations to your Form fields. 

Calculations (which can also be referred to as Formulas) performs actions impacting the data that is entered into your Form field. For example, a Calculation can be used to instruct a field to display specific information (like a User's name or email), Sum field values or even convert input information to uppercase. (You can view each of these Calculations at the bottom of this post.)

Watch the video below for a quick example of how to add Calculations to your Templates, so you can start pre-populating information of your own (and check out the Calculation examples and resources below!). 

Calculations

To pre-populate User information in your Forms, try one of the following 'current user' Calculations. Simply copy and paste the Calculation below into your Default Value field property, beginning with the equals sign (=). 

Current User Information
First Name: =CURRENTUSER_FIRSTNAME
Last Name: =CURRENTUSER_LASTNAME
First & Last Name: =CURRENTUSER_FIRSTNAME&" "&CURRENTUSER_LASTNAME
Phone Number: =CURRENTUSER_PHONENUMBER

Ready for more Calculations? Click here to learn how the IsInGroup Calculation grants you the power to control Dynamic Field Properties based on a User's Group.