Cognito-forms – Connecting data or responses from forms on different pages of Cognito Form

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I would like to have a set of questions on one page then send them to a new page where I will ask for their contact information.

However this results in two separate entries in the entries database.
One for the questions form and one for the contact information.

Is there a way to connect the forms or at least identify which contact information goes with which set of answers in the entries database?

Best Answer

I am a developer for Cognito Forms.

We are releasing support for multi-page forms with conditional branching rules later this month. In the interim, you can use fields and sections that are conditionally visible to accomplish similar behavior.

Here is how the multi-page feature will appear in the builder and on your forms:

Builder - Progress Bar Settings

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Builder - Page Break Settings

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Form with Multiple Pages

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Optionally, when multi-page forms are not sufficient, it is possible to transfer data from one form on one page to another form on a different page as long as you are embedding these forms on your website and are prepared to roll up your sleeves a bit:

  1. Create the first form and embed it on a page in your site.

  2. Configure the first form to send data to the second page on your website using querystring parameters:

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Pass whatever parameters you need and reference fields on your form in []'s, such as https://www.yourownwebsite.abc/page2?First=[Name.First]&Last=[Name.Last] from the above example.

  1. Create your second form starting with a copy of the first (so it contains the same fields) and mark these fields as Show This Field - Internally so they do not appear to the user.

  2. Embed the second form on the second page using the Cognito Forms embed code.

  3. Modify the embed code to pass in information from the first form pulled from the querystring parameters.

<div class="cognito">
<script src="https://services.cognitoforms.com/include/required"></script>
<script src="https://services.cognitoforms.com/session/script/a205f58a-e405-4edb-9c3b-b4f3f5ff1d85"></script>
<script>

  // Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/901115/how-can-i-get-query-string-values-in-javascript
  function getParameterByName(name) {
      name = name.replace(/[\[]/, "\\[").replace(/[\]]/, "\\]");
      var regex = new RegExp("[\\?&]" + name + "=([^&#]*)"),
      results = regex.exec(location.search);
      return results === null ? "" : decodeURIComponent(results[1].replace(/\+/g, " "));  
  }

  // Load form prefilling with querystring parameters
  Cognito.load("forms", { 
      id: "12", // make sure this is the correct form id for your form
      entry: {
          Name: {
              First: getParameterByName("First"),
              Last: getParameterByName("Last"),
          }
      }
  });
</script>
</div>

The requires a bit of effort but works with only a small bit of JavaScript. If you need to understand the syntax for specifying the entry option, you can configure your second form to post to a url on http://requestb.in/ and submit a test entry.

Optionally, if you prefer more control and can do some server-side programming, the Post to a website option can post the JSON for the first form to the second page, where you can simply pass it through to the second form in a similar fashion.

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