Hidden form fields don't do anything?

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I’m testing out Wix Studio for a client and they rely heavily on hidden fields in forms to pass information about their leads through (I.e. where they came from).

In standard Wix Forms, if you make a field hidden it’s still actually in the HTML of the form (it’s just hidden from view of the user). This means I can add some javascript that writes information into the hidden fields (I.e. The fact a user came from Paid Search, Organic Searcgh, etc).

However, in Wix Studio, even though I add hidden fields to the form in the new Wix Studio form builder, they’re not actually in the HTML of the page when published.

And if they’re not on in the HTML of the page, then I can’t write any information into them and I don’t really understand why they exist. They’re useless.

Am I missing something? Is this a bug?

P.S I put together a video here showing what I mean.

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Hi Aaron!

I asked the Forms team about this and the change is intentional. They can still be used to keep certain fields available to show/hide later on.

If you need to use the old form functionality that’s not available in new forms, you can choose to start from the “order form” template in the add panel, and you’ll get the old forms. If you’re relying very heavily on hidden input data, I’d also suggest looking into creating the form from scratch through Input elements, and then using code to submit data to a collection (see: this page for more info on how to do that).

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Thanks @emmy for the insight.

I am trying to create an Intake Form for a Spa Clinic that will require a Signature.

  1. I would prefer to use Wix Forms because it has built in capabilities to email notify the website owner of the form submission AND include the pdf. Is this still the case in the Studio Editor?

  2. I indeed was able to add the Order Form as you suggested, but
    a) There is still not option for a signature field
    b) I cannot connect to Wix CMS/data (as I am able to with Wix Forms in the regular Wix Editor)

  3. Yes, I see I can create a form from scratch using Input Fields, and that a Signature Field exists there! But my understanding is with Velo the only way to send a triggered email notification is by connecting SendGrid? Can I use Wix Automations or Triggered emails instead (without SendGrid)? Is there a way to take the user input and email it as a pdf?

Thank you for your insight! :pray: :star2: