topic Re: Swapping form on landing page with HubDB in CMS Development

Swapping form on landing page with HubDB

hd-hs — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 19:16:36 GMT

I am using HubDB to pull dynamic content into a single landing page. However, I need to change the form that is loaded on this page based on the URL with the rest of content coming from HubDB.

Does anyone know of a solution to this? I don’t want to create 5 different landing pages just for a form.

Re: Swapping form on landing page with HubDB

Kevin-C — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:52:11 GMT

Hey @hd-hs

Might you be able to create multiple forms, add a column in your DB with the corresponding form ID, and use hubl to place it into the page. This way the form wouldn't necessarily be based on the URL/query-string but rather data from the DB.

Re: Swapping form on landing page with HubDB

hd-hs — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:36:18 GMT

Thanks! Solved this in the end by creating a custom hubspot property and adding this property as a hidden field in the form. You can then pass the property into the url and this will populate the hidden fields data.

e.g. example.com?internal_property_name_here=test

https://knowledge.hubspot.com/forms/can-i-auto-populate-form-fields-through-a-query-string

Re: Swapping form on landing page with HubDB

Kevin-C — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:01:30 GMT

Edge case alert:

What happens if the user manually types in the URL and forgoes the querystring?

Have you got a fallback in place?

Re: Swapping form on landing page with HubDB

hd-hs — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 19:15:40 GMT

These URLS are coming from PPC ads and therefore set from my side. Sorry, should have said! If they remove the query string later down the line I am not too worried as I am only interested in direct traffic from the ads at the moment!