Can I dynamically pre-populate values into a dropdown field

Hi @savantlywayne Happy Monday! I’m afraid we don’t offer a native feature that would allow you to pre-populate fields from data outside of Typeform. You could pass the information in through hidden fields, if this would work for you. 

Hey Liz, thank you for responding. So, the contents of the drop-down cannot be added from an external source, but if I populate a hidden field, would I be right in saying that I still cannot add the contents of the hidden field to the drop-down?

@mathio - here’s one for you sir.. could the API’s be used to query the external data set and return the data list to be used as options in a drop down question (thinking of the Create API here.. )  - I don’t dabble in them but it seems that you have posted a couple of possible ways that might work .. not sure if that applies to drop downs, in terms of passing in the options via the API

just a thought

des

@mathio  .. thank you for responding! Do you have any examples that I can look at? 

• Get form ID as {form_id}
• Make PUT request (+ authentication) with new field + existing fields

PUT https://api.typeform.com/forms/{form_id}

{
  "fields": [
    {
      "id": "new_field_id", 
      "title": "New Field",
      "type": "short_text" 
    },
    ...existing fields...
  ] 
}

• Specify id, title, type for new field
• OPTIONAL but recommended:
  • Retrieve form to confirm field added

Thank you @okdashcam for the example 👍

@savantlywayne you can find more examples on our developer portal.