https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Prepopulate field (case number or client number) with field from database en Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:40:26 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/prepopulate-field-case-number-or-client-number-with-field-from-database#post-11001 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:08:36 +0000 grimdesigns 11001@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hi Yuniar, I have sent you the email. Your help is much appreciated.<br /> Thanks </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/prepopulate-field-case-number-or-client-number-with-field-from-database#post-10982 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:41:38 +0000 yuniar 10982@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Is this case number field need to be displayed within the email or the admin panel?<br /> If you only need this case number within the email, it's quite easy.</p> <p>Simply edit your email content template and use this code:</p> <pre><code>{form_id}_{entry_id}</code></pre> <p>That would generate the case number field as you need it.</p> <p>However, if you need this number displayed within the admin panel. More adjustment will be needed.<br /> First you will need to add a "Single Line Text" field into your form, which would hold this case number.</p> <p>We can then hide this field from the user by modifying the CSS and set the property of this field to hidden.</p> <p>Then some modification to your "includes/post-functions.php" will be needed to add the custom code to generate the case number.</p> <p>If you could create the form and add that field, please let me know the URL.<br /> I can help you with the complete code for this.</p> <p>You can post it here or send it via email: customer.service [at] appnitro.com </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/prepopulate-field-case-number-or-client-number-with-field-from-database#post-10973 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:20:04 +0000 grimdesigns 10973@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hi I was wondering if anyone new how to prepolate a field on the form from the database and not have this editable on the form view (not admin view). Basically when a new person is filling out the form, it is considered a new case and I want the form to prepopulate the case number field (actually I wont have this visible to the regular form, just the admin). Ideally, I would like to have the new number to be a combination of the form id (example 01) and the entry id (form example (13) so the end result would be 01_13</p> <p>If anyone can chime in, that would be a huge help.<br /> Thanks </p>