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Passing Hidden Fields to Account Engagement Forms

Julkaisupäivä: Sep 30, 2025
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Occasionally you may want to pass data as a hidden field to Account Engagement. For example, you may have a product information form and you want to pass the product name as a hidden field based on the page from which your prospect reached the form.
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Passing Hidden Fields with a Form Handler

Simply set up a form handler and map the input name of your hidden field to the appropriate Account Engagement field. The data will pass through just like any other field during the post.


Passing Hidden Fields with a Form iFramed on Your Website

1. Create an Account Engagement custom field with the type Hidden. Note the Field ID of your field, which you'll need to append to your form URL. The field ID can be found on the field page.
2. Edit your form and add your hidden field using the Form Wizard's drag-and-drop form builder.
3. IMPORTANT: Make sure that you enable the setting on the hidden field to "Always display even if previously completed" (under the Advanced tab when editing your field) if you are using this form in more than one place.
4. Append the Field ID as a URL parameter to the end of your iframe URL for each form and also include the value.

If your iframe URL were:

<iframe src="http://go.exmample.com/l/1/2007-06-27/101"></iframe>
 

Then your new URL would be:

<iframe src="http://go.example.com/l/1/2007-06-27/101?Field_ID=value"></iframe>
 

The Field_ID parameter is the field ID for your custom field, and value is the value you wish to have added to the prospect record. This would be different for each form. For example, if your hidden field is intended to contain the name of the completed form, the iframe URL would read:

http://go.example.com/l/1/2007-06-27/101?form_submitted=whitepaperform

If you don't want to hardcode a parameter in your iframe source, or if the value that's passed to the iframed form is dynamic, you can use a different method to pass the values. See Passing URL Parameters from Browser to iFrame for more information.


Passing Hidden Fields with a Form Placed on a Landing Page or when Linking Directly to a Form

The following works well if you are linking directly to a form, or using one form on multiple Account Engagement landing pages and need to pass a different hidden value through the form, depending on the page. If you only need to pass a hidden value through one form which is hosted on a Account Engagement landing page, you could add a completion action to the form that adds a specific value to the custom field you designate. Using a completion action frees you from having to set up the following steps.
 
1. Create a Account Engagement custom field with the Type "Hidden." Note the Field ID of your field, which you'll need to append to your landing page URL.
2. Edit your form and add your hidden field using the Form Wizard's drag and drop form builder.
3. IMPORTANT: Make sure that you enable the setting on the hidden field to "Always display even if previously completed" (under the advanced tab when editing your field) if you are using this form in more than one place.
4. Append the Field ID as a link parameter to the end of your landing page URL and also insert the value. For example: http://go.example.com/l/1/2007-06-27/101?form_submitted=whitepaperform. In this example, form_submitted the Field ID, and whitepaperform is the value.

Notes

You can also create hidden versions of your form fields rather than creating hidden custom fields to include in your forms. For example, you can use the default field "Source" on your form, edit the form field to be "hidden", and pass a value to this field on your form. If you are using a standard form field instead of a custom one, you will use the field's Prospect Field value rather than the Field ID in your URL. You may need to encode spaces and other characters within your URL.
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