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Excluding Fields from Native Form Submissions

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Jon Walker
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When submitting native form data, you can exclude fields. This article will detail how to exclude fields from form submissions.

Note: SharpSpring offers Professional Services to assist with custom coding. You must have code knowledge in order to use the information within this article.

The following user roles can edit native form embed code content:

  • Administrators


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Excluding Fields

When collecting form data, there can be reasons to exclude a field from the submission to SharpSpring. The most common reasons for this are:

  • The field includes sensitive data. The field includes data, such as passwords or social security numbers, that should not be transmitted over the connection to SharpSpring.

  • Fields that cause form submissions to fail. Some third-party providers add additional fields that do not need to be collected by SharpSpring, but have names or data that cause issues due to length or special characters.

To edit your native form embed code to exclude passing specific fields, do the following: 

  1. In SharpSpring's top toolbar, click
    Content > Forms.
  2. Create or open a native form.
  3. Copy the form's embed code.
  4. In a text editor, add the  var hidden = []; code snippet directly below the 
    var __ss_noform = __ss_noform || []; code snippet.
  5. Underneath the var hidden = []; code snippet, add the hidden.push("field_name_1"); code snippet.
  6. Replace field_name_1 with the name attribute of the field to be excluded.
  7. Repeat as necessary for each field that will be excluded.
  8. Add the code snippet __ss_noform.push(['exclude', hidden]); directly below the __ss_noform.push(['endpoint', 'xXxXxXxX-xXxX-xXxX-xXxX-xXxXxXxXxXxX']); code snippet.
  9. Place the edited native form script before the closing <form> tag or closing <body> tag on the page where the native form lives.
  10. Submit the form.
  11. Map the fields in SharpSpring.
    
 
 

Excluded fields will not appear on the field mappings page for your form.
 

Code Examples

The following is an example embed code before edits.

<!-- SharpSpring Native Form -->
<script type="text/javascript">
    var __ss_noform = __ss_noform || [];
    __ss_noform.push(['baseURI', 'https://app-xXxXxXxXxX.marketingautomation.services/webforms/receivePostback/xXxXxXxXxX/']);
    __ss_noform.push(['endpoint', 'xXxXxXxX-xXxX-xXxX-xXxX-xXxXxXxXxXxX']);
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://koi-3QKH0X1U88.marketingautomation.services/client/form.js?ver=1.1.1"></script>


The following is an example embed code after edits.

<!-- SharpSpring Native Form -->
<script type="text/javascript">
    var __ss_noform = __ss_noform || [];
    var hidden = [];
    hidden.push("field_name_1");
    hidden.push("field_name_2");
    hidden.push("field_name_3");
    __ss_noform.push(['baseURI', 'https://app-xXxXxXxXxX.marketingautomation.services/webforms/receivePostback/xXxXxXxXxX/']);
    __ss_noform.push(['endpoint', 'xXxXxXxX-xXxX-xXxX-xXxX-xXxXxXxXxXxX']);
    __ss_noform.push(['exclude', hidden]);
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://koi-3QKH0X1U88.marketingautomation.services/client/form.js?ver=1.1.1"></script>

 


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