# Progressive profiling: Do not pre-populate certain form fields **URL:** \ **Category:** HubSpot Ideas\ **Tags:** forms\ **Created:** [October 28, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/progressive-profiling-do-not-pre-populate-certain-form-fields/46076 "2021-10-28T04:41:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SamuelSt](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/samuelst/32/78108_2.png) [@SamuelSt](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SamuelSt)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/progressive-profiling-do-not-pre-populate-certain-form-fields/46076/1 "2021-10-28T04:41:19Z")
The goal of this feature is to ensure that form fields are not re-submitted with information that is no longer current. This would make the forms functionality more powerful and useful to users. For example, if you have a form field called “Question” for a form called “Contact Us” - did you know that if a person had submitted a question in January, and then came back in February to use the “Contact Us” form again, then their answer to the “Question” field would be pre-field? That is really confusing. I am pretty sure the person coming back in February has a different question than the one they asked in January… Instead, there should be an option to turn off the automatic pre-fill for the “Question” field when progressive profiling is turned on. ---
**Author:** ![isabellweiss](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/isabellweiss/32/4360_2.png) [@isabellweiss](https://community.hubspot.com/u/isabellweiss)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 10:18am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/progressive-profiling-do-not-pre-populate-certain-form-fields/46076/2 "2022-02-25T10:18:11Z")
Hi @SamuelSt while doing some research I came across your post and I noticed that there is a similar idea that was submitted to the ideas forum that you might be interested in: [https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Pre-populate-certain-fields/idi-p/11122](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Pre-populate-certain-fields/idi-p/11122) 🙂