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Default Email Value with Form Abandonment Enabled.

By: Joe Kevlex | Asked: 01/12/2025
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Joe KevlexJoe Kevlex asked 19 hours ago

I have a multi-step form with the users' contact details fields displayed in an inner page (i.e., on the 4th page). Now, I have inserted an email field on the first three pages just in case users abandon my multi-step form before the fourth page.
How do I make the email fields on the second page and onward default to the value the users filled in on the first page?
Or, how does the email field on the contact details page (on the 4th page) default to the value filled in on any of the previous pages?

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Rob LeVineRob LeVine answered 7 hours ago
While I don't understand your overall plan, the answer to your question is simply solved with jQuery. Set up an change event listener for the email field on the first page and set the value in the successive pages.
Joe KevlexJoe Kevlex replied 6 hours ago

Thanks. I have this long multi-step form that branches out to different paths depending on how users respond to earlier questions. Users are only asked about their personal details when they take/choose a path that requires it, except for the email address field, which is optional and presented on the first few steps/pages of our long multi-step form. I decided to place an email field on the first few pages to give users a chance to get back to the form without the need to fill in or respond to questions that they already answered.

So, yeah, if the users will be seeing the email field (repeatedly) on many pages/steps, the goal is to have their email address already as the default on other pages once they have already filled that in on any of the other pages.

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Joe KevlexJoe Kevlex answered 6 hours ago

My jQuery doesn't work.  Maybe because I placed the email field in an embedded field, which I call/embed on the first few pages. Also, email fields don't have this text "calculation" option for default value, unlike regular text or hidden fields. How can you retrieve a field's value from a previous step or page in a multi-step form? I've done it with non-embedded hidden fields, but I can't make it work for email fields. 

Rob LeVineRob LeVine replied 6 hours ago

Let's take a step back. You're embedding the same form multiple times? As far as I understand, that's not OK. https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/publish-a-form/#kb-multiple-forms-on-one-page

Joe KevlexJoe Kevlex replied 5 hours ago

Oh. I see. But is a multi-step or multi-page-break form considered just one page? I mean, does it behave as just one HTML page? I have "Submit this form with AJAX" enabled too. I used this since my form is on a WP popup and to make sure that values of my fields on different steps persist in all steps.

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