Lisa W asked 2 weeks ago
Hey Formidable community -
I have a Form A with field 39 that is a dynamic lookup to Form B, where the entry from Form B is set in field 39 based on passing a parameter on the post URL: https://resonantequity.org/2025-may-defensive-documentation/?program=4284
Form A does a PayPal payment, and there's an email confirmation going out when payment received. Works great, and I'm able to show data from the Form B entry just fine in that email using "[39 show=21]" etc. Awesome.
However, I'm stuck on getting that same Form B entry that's captured through the program=4284 passed parameter into a Form B View shortcode in that Form A PayPal payment confirmation email. The View shortcode is the standard "[display-frm-data id=485]" but I need an entry_id for that, and I'm stumped. How do I specify the entry_id that's been passed as a parameter into the post, and has been set for my Form A field 39, into this View shortcode for Form B? I can't hardcode 4284 in the shortcode because I have multiple posts set up with different passed parameters to different Form B entries. I tried "[display-frm-data id=485 entry_id=[39]]" and I also tried using the frm-set-get on the post itself to capture the 4284 there.... nope, nada.
Smart people, what am I missing?
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I'll try via commenting because I answered the question, and the *&#$# forum never posted it, so let me know if you didn't get it via the notification. The bottom line is that you pass the parameter via the display-frm-data shortcode and retrieve it via [get param...]. I know you said you tried it, but there must be more to the story because that's how it does work.
@Rob TYSM for trying to help! I did actually get the initial reply also. I tried implementing and it didn't initially work, but I'm feeling more confident now so I will dig through this more to see if I can figure it out, and will write back if I get totally stuck. Very grateful for the path forward, we'll see if I can wrangle it from here!