topic Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters in APIs & Integrations

Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

Gthn — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:21:36 GMT

Hi,

I want to redirect users to a dynamic URL which already includes a "?".

Basically I want our users to fill a form with their website as one of the property in order to redirect them to a URL which include their website.

So if they fill a form putting: http://www.mywebsite.com

People would be redirected to the following URL http://www.domain.com/simulate.php?url=http://www.mywebsite.com

1. How can i add a time delay in the form code in order to be sure that Hubspot updates the property in order to create the right redirected URL

2. I tried the dynamic query string (as i saw in HS knowledge) but it didn't work neither and i've the feeling it's because of the "?" which is inside the URL.

Thanks in advance for your help

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

IsaacTakushi — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 21:15:32 GMT

Welcome, @Gthn.

The method outlined in this article populates HubSpot form fields from a query string before the form is submitted. You're looking to do the opposite — populate a query string with form field values after a form is submitted.

@derekcavaliero's solution in this thread allows form data to populate a redirect URL's query string (following a ?) after a predefined delay.

Per this comment in the original thread, could you clarify where you got stuck regarding "I didn't get how to use window.location ="http://www.yoururl.com?" + formData;"?

If I'm understanding you correctly, and given your example above, you'd replace http://www.yoururl.com? with http://www.domain.com/simulate.php?.

@derekcavaliero, it sounds like @Gthn also wants to pick out the website property/field specifically. Could you speak to how that might be accomplished through jQuery (as opposed to appending all form fields with var formData = $form.serialize();)? Appreciate your input!

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

Gthn — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:11:37 GMT

Hi @IsaacTakushi

Thanks for your answer. I will try to clarify my issue.

1. If I'm understanding you correctly, and given your example above, you'd replace http://www.yoururl.com?with http://www.domain.com/simulate.ph p?.

-> Not exactly. The yoururl.com will be replaced with "http://www.domain.com/simulate.php?url= " . I'm afraid it generates a conflict because it already includes a "?". So, with the form parameter it will be a second "?".

2. could you clarify where you got stuck regarding "I didn't get how to use window.location ="http://www.yoururl.com?" + formData;"?

-> I don't know how to use the +formdata. I tried to use this kind of URL given in the article you sent me but the redirection was not working

http://www.domain.com/marketing-offer?firstname={{contact.firstname}}&lastname={{contact.lastname}}&email={{contact.email}}

Each time i tried the redirected URL included some Hubspot form data like "hstc=" or "submissionGuid="

So, this is where i'm stuck and I've no doubt that @derekcavaliero probably has the solution :).

Best,

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

derekcavaliero — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:25:01 GMT

Yep I can, I actually just helped out another member of the forum with something similar.

What is the final URL format you are looking to redirect to? Also - do you have an example page with the form that I could see?

In hindsight - the serialize option works but it is admittedly a little messy. 😄

The $form argument of the onFormSubmit callback is a jQuery collection of the entire submitted HubSpot <form> element that is stored at the moment the form was submitted, and successfully validated.

That means you can dive into the collection and "cherry-pick" whatever field values you may want to use doing something like this:

var website = $form.find('input[name="website"]').val();

That would give you the isolated website field value in a separate variable you could then append to your redirect location as needed.

setTimeout( function() {
  window.location = "http://www.domain.com/simulate.php?url=" + encodeURIComponent( website );
}, 500 ); // Redirects to url with query string data from form fields after 1/2 second.

You could do this infinitely - however if you need to pass/map many fields to specific query string keys - I also have a solution for that which is a bit more elegant in nature.

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

Gthn — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 09:20:07 GMT

Hi @derekcavaliero and @IsaacTakushi ,

I finally understood how it works and therefore I was able to make it work exactly how i want!

Redirection perfeclty works, and takes the URL as a parameter. So, great!

Thank you guys for your help, I hope this solution can help more people :).

Have a great day

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

IsaacTakushi — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 11:57:17 GMT

Glad to hear it, @Gthn.

Thanks so much for jumping in, @derekcavaliero!

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

mikefreeman — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 18:23:39 GMT

Hi @IsaacTakushi , I am having some trouble getting this to work properly. It is not clear to me where

var website = $form.find('input[name="email"]').val();

is supposed to go. Here is what I have.

<!--[if lte IE 8]>
<script charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript" src="//js.hsforms.net/forms/v2-legacy.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<script charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript" src="//js.hsforms.net/forms/v2.js"></script>
<script>
  hbspt.forms.create({
	portalId: "xxxxxx",
	formId: "xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
	 inlineMessage: 'This page is redirecting.',
    onFormSubmit: function($form){
        setTimeout( function() {
            var website = $form.find('input[name="email"]').val();
            window.location = "http://app.domain.com?" + formData;
        }, 250 ); // Redirects to url with query string data from form fields after 250 milliseconds.
    }
});
</script>

This simply shows the message, and doesn't do anything to redirect to another page.

I am pretty sure I have put the "Var website..." in the wrong location, I just don't know where it needs to go.

Thank you!

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

IsaacTakushi — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 19:41:41 GMT

Welcome, @mikefreeman.

Happy to clarify.

The var website = $form.find('input[name="website"]').val();snippet applies to the original poster's use case. The code will retrieve the form's website field value with jQuery and the rest of the code @derekcavaliero provided will append this website value to the redirect URL of http://www.domain.com/simulate.php.

If you're looking to append all the form field data to the redirect URL, go with the code in the soluton to this thread.

Be aware that you'll have to set the portalId and formId as well as change http://www.yoururl.com? to your desired redirect URL.

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

mikefreeman — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 21:01:21 GMT

@IsaacTakushi, actually, I am hoping the URL redirect looks like this.

app.tutorup.com/EMAIL and that's it. I don't want to get all the form data to be included in the URL. Only the email.

I have removed the "portalId" & the "formId" just to post it publicly.

<!--[if lte IE 8]>
<script charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript" src="//js.hsforms.net/forms/v2-legacy.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="//js.hsforms.net/forms/v2.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script>
hbspt.forms.create({
portalId: 'XXXXXX',
formId: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
inlineMessage: 'You are being redirected to the TutorUp Application...',
onFormSubmit: function($form){

var website = $form.find('input[name="email"]').val();
setTimeout( function() {
window.location = "http://app.site.com?=" + encodeURIComponent( email );
}, 500 ); // Redirects to url with query string data from form fields after 1/2 second.

}
});
</script>

The goal here is to pull the email address entered in the form and insert into the redirect URL so that it goes to app.site.com/email@email.com

I was able to get it to post the email in the string through adding {{email}} to the redirect URL, but it adds a lot of other stuff. It looks like this.

app.site.com/%3F__hstc%3D12452660.52f0b750ee8a691e8b65dda125edced9.1567203299165.1567527568301.1567533494408.4%26__hssc%3D104981660.48.1567533494408%26token%3Dthisisthetestemail%2540gmail.com%26submissionGuid%3D9061f7e7-bfe0-42d7-bce0-8870fb23930d&r=&bc=

I just can't seem to get it to post the clean URL like I am hoping to do.

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

mikefreeman — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 00:53:22 GMT

@IsaacTakushi,

Many thanks for you help. Based on what you gave me and with help from a friend, I was able to get it to properly work. Here is the final working format that was successful for me.

For anyone else trying to do this, here's a quick "how-to".

Simply drop the code below into the source code (RichText/Advanced/Source Code) on a rich text block in the COS. Change out the portalId and formId to match your form. You can find both of these values by opening up your form and looking at the URL.

The short value after "forms" is your portal ID, and the longer value after "editor" is your FormID.

From there, change the input name to whatever field in your form you are refrencing. You'll change out "FieldID" to your form field. That would be "email" or "category" or whatever else you're asking in the form.

Where I have "http://websiteurl.com?email=" just change that to whatever you want in front of your passed field variable. When the redirected, it will read "http://websiteurl.com?email=FieldID" and the FieldID will be replaced with the variable from the form.

I am not sure what "emailWeb" do, but that seemed to make it work, so I am not going to change it on my end. Maybe @IsaacTakushi could speak more to that.

Thank you again @IsaacTakushi for your help.

The final code I used is as follows:

<!--[if lte IE 8]>
<script charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript" src="//js.hsforms.net/forms/v2-legacy.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="//js.hsforms.net/forms/v2.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script>
hbspt.forms.create({
    portalId: 'xxxxxxx',
    formId: 'xxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx',
    inlineMessage: 'You are being redirected to the Application...',
    onFormSubmit: function($form){
        
        var emailWeb = $form.find('input[name="FieldID"]').val();
        setTimeout( function() {
            window.location.href = "http://websiteurl.com?email=" + encodeURIComponent( emailWeb );
}, 500 ); // Redirects to url with query string data from form fields after 1/2 second.
        
    }
});
</script>

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

IsaacTakushi — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:13:13 GMT

Thanks so much for sharing, @mikefreeman! I'm glad you got it to work.

In your code, emailWeb is the name of a variable you define. The name itself doesn't really matter; you're just using it to hold the value of $form.find('input[name="FieldID"]').val();.. You then append emailWeb to the end of your URL, http://websiteurl.com?email, effectively setting a value for the email query parameter.

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

IsaacTakushi — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:01:42 GMT

Hi, @mikefreeman.

Thanks for clarifying.

Per this post, the __hstc and __hssc parameters are added by the HubSpot cross-domain linking setting you have enabled. This can be disabled, but then you'll lose the ability to track visitors jumping from your HubSpot-hosted content to your app.

The submissionGuid parameter is appended whenever a HubSpot form redirects to another page. It is used to help track submissions/conversions. This cannot be disabled for embedded forms which redirect.

If a completely clean redirect URL is critical, you may want to pursue custom-coding your form and passing data to HubSpot via the Forms API.

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

bryansteel — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:12:50 GMT

Solid thank you. this worked for me.

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

Albo — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:08:53 GMT

I've got your script working as intended. Thanks for this solution. That said, I am interested in cleaning up the redirect a bit. I need to pass 4-6 fields to specific query string keys. Would you mind sharing the more elegant solution that you mentioned?

Thank you!

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

IsaacTakushi — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:08:44 GMT

CC @derekcavaliero on the above.

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

derekcavaliero — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 13:02:45 GMT

@Albo Here is a GitHub gist showing mapping mulitple fields to parameters.

https://gist.github.com/derekcavaliero/f79007a21233d8358636faa5199da165

You'd want to edit the queryMap variable to change what form fields map to what query string parameter. Then down in the redirect - you'd need to update the redirect location.

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

Albo — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:01:54 GMT

@derekcavaliero @IsaacTakushi

Quick question for you guys. I've got no problem deploying the solution as you suggested for the email form field. The only thing problem that I'm seeing that Hubspot seems to be replacing the @ of the email address with %40

So, instead of seeing https://yourdomain.com/?email=email@domain.com for the redirect, I am seeing yourdomain.com/?email=email%40domain.com

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

derekcavaliero — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 13:49:18 GMT

@Albo Thats standard URI encoding for query parameters. HubSpot will decode query parameters automatically when prefilling it's form fields. If you're reading this value elsewhere you'll need to decode it first using decodeURIComponent() -https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/decodeURIComponent

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

dimitreliasb — Thu, 07 May 2020 18:40:05 GMT

@IsaacTakushi Just wanted to post and say many thanks! after days and hours of testing and troublshooting we finally managed to get it to work with this little gold gem java snippet below. many thanks!!!

Re: Embedded Form submission & redirect URL based on form parameters

amandalim1 — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 12:02:05 GMT

Hi, I'm trying this solution out now but I can't seem to pass the website URL straight into the redirect page link. Can someone assist, thank you so much!