Use a form to populate custom object data

[Dylan]

Custom object fields should be available to be used in the forms tool

[JWarren8]

It looks to me like this issue is yet to be resolved for most use cases. 

I want our trip enquiry forms [travel business] to create the contact AND create an associated new custom object with the trip details. I currently create these on the contact record and then create an associated custom object within a workflow. Unforutnately this means you don't have the actual form submission against the custom object (it doesn't come across with last 30 days activity) 

[ALamont7]

We have an accreditation custom object. We run our client companies through Accreditation so they are legally allowed to employ Non-Residents. When the client submits the form it is creating the accreditation object but it is not populating any of the accreditation data from the form to the accreditation object.

[HanzWil]

This idea has not yet been fully implemented!

[louischausse]

I don't understand why this is still open. We can use custom objects fields in forms for months if it's not years...

[Courtney_Clark]

It appears you can use a custom object in a form, but it doesn't update the custom object property when a contact submits the form. So there is no record of it being submitted within the property. Please update this so it does update the custom object property. I am shocked that it isn't doing that.

[louischausse]

@Courtney_Clark Similar to contact forms that need the email address field to update a contact, if you want to update a specific custom object record instead of creating a new record, the form needs to include a unique value property of your custom object.

This unique value property can be an id that you generate or copy from the record id with a worklow.

If you don't want users to memorize this id, you can add it as parameters to the form url you share with them : https://knowledge.hubspot.com/forms/can-i-auto-populate-form-fields-through-a-query-string

[OJ_ONT]

Does the custom object and/or the form need to be configured in a certain way? When I add CO properties to a form the submissions are not creating (or updating!) new records on the CO.
I've definitely got the form configured with properties from the custom object.

[YYang42]

I have the same issue. The AI says I need to create properties in contact, and copy from contact to my CO. This is such a convoluting way and very error prone