Venue Llama replied 2 years ago

Thanks Rob, but i'm having no luck -what am i doing wrong? I tried pasting this as the link to the lightbox form in the listing view -- the form does pop up, but the venue field remains blank and doesn't not populate w/ the venue name from the listing.

[frmmodal-content label= TEST7][formidable id="32" [6]="entry"][/frmmodal-content]

Thanks for your help!

I also tried

[frmmodal-content label= TEST7][formidable id="32" Venue Name="value"][/frmmodal-content]

[frmmodal-content label= TEST7][formidable id="32" Hidden="value"][/frmmodal-content]

Rob LeVine replied 2 years ago

None of those will work, especially the first :). The rule is pretty straightforward for parameter conventions. Let's say you want to pass the value that is someone's last name. In the shortcode, you do the following [formidable id=1 last_name="[6]"] where 1 is the form id and [6] is the shortcode of the filed holding the last name. Then when you want to retrieve the value, you use [get param="last_name"]

In your first try, you have the shortcode on the left side of the equal sign and the parameter name on the right.
Second try, you have a space between "Venue" and "Name". It's good practice to use all lowercase and use underscores or hyphens if you want to have multiple words.
Third try, in theory, that'd be ok if, on the form or view, you're using [get param="Hidden"] and "value" was the actual value you wanted to pass.

Venue Llama replied 2 years ago

<p><p>No dice - among several other things, tried this: [frmmodal-content label= TEST25] [formidable id=32 venue="[6]" get param="venue"] [/frmmodal-content] A. I don't know the syntax of how to structure these short codes or how much I can jam in between the brackets - so that's prbaboy the most glaring issue B. As mentioned, I'm able to get this to function properly by using a simple HTML / AHREF link to my rating form --using this link:  <strong><a href="<a href="https://venuellama.com/dev/ratecard?entry=%5Bid%5D">RATE&quot; rel="nofollow">https://venuellama.com/dev/ratecard?entry=%5Bid%5D">RATE</a&gt; VENUE</a></strong></p><p> </p><p>Once that's clicked, it takes me to the rate card form, and the venue field is correctly populated from the listing -- I just don't konw how to translate an HTML link into the short code to make this work with the lightbox. I want the lightbox because I don't want a user to have back click once the form is completed, I want them to stay where they are, on the listing view page. C. I've been also trying everything here: <a href="<a href="https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/get-a-value-from-an-entry/&quot&quot; rel="nofollow">https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/get-a-value-from-an-entry/&quot</a&gt;; rel="nofollow"><a href="https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/get-a-value-from-an-entry/</a&gt&quot; rel="nofollow">https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/get-a-value-from-an-entry/</a&gt</a&gt;; I appreciate your help -- if you want to take this off-forum, kindly let me know how best to proceed. Thanks!</p></p>

Bobby Clapp replied 2 years ago

Not sure if this is on topic, but try adding a dynamic class to it. Something like class="my-style-[id]" or [frmmodal-content label= TEST25 my-style-[id]] [formidable id=32 venue="[6]" get param="venue"] [/frmmodal-content]. I find many forms with pre-filled data need a unique class to know which modal to pull up. If dynamic doesn't work, hard code in a fake unique ID or term or whatever. It may help.