Hi,

So I have a custom loop for used cars for sale, one of the custom fields is for a ref number. I would like the "Enquire" link to open the page with the contact form on but automatically fill a field within the contact form with the unique ref number. In the past I have done this no problem using The CF7 Dynamic Text plugin and using a conditional statement in my custom page template....

<?php
global $post;
echo '<a href="'; ?>
<?php echo bloginfo('url'); ?>
<?php
echo '/enquiry-form?enquiry-type=' . get_field('ref') . '">ENQUIRE</a>';

?>

...and in the CF7 form...

[dynamictext enquiry-type id:enquiry-type readonly "CF7_GET key='enquiry-type'"]

I just cant figure out how to make this work within Elementor. I know I can pull in the ACF using the dynamic tag but that doesnt bring in the URL to the form and I cant add a before aspect and as far as I am aware I cant add PHP in the Link field in the button settings in Elementor.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Hi, Thanks for the response.

I'm a little unsure how this will work....

It seems this plugin just creates functions that run all the time. I just need to create a URL with the relevant attribute so that it automatically populates a field in the contact form. For example.....

https://www.website.com/enquiry-form/?enquiry-type=BMU0717

Where "enquiry-form" is the webpage and "enquiry-type=" is the CF7 Dynamic Text ID and "BMU0717" is the custom field pulled from the loop. 

Hope that makes sense.

Hi,

No problem at all. I've been doing a little digging myself.

The issue I have seems to be the passing of an ACF from the previous page. Getting an ACF from the existing page (the page with the form on) isn't a problem. Getting a specific ACF from the referral page (in this case a Used Car CPT single) to pass to the dynamic text field is where I'm struggling.

As I've said previously, if I was hard coding this in my own template I would simply create the link on the single page by including the ACF.....

href="www.website.com/enquiry-form?enquiry-type=' . get_field('ref') . '"

This would then create the link/url....

href="www.website.com/enquiry-form?enquiry-type=BMU0001" (for example)

This would then fill in the dynamic text field with the ref number "BMU0001".

I just need a way of pulling in that ACF into the link URL. Ideally if it was possible I could use the Dynamic Tag option in Elementor and just set the Before field to "www.website.com/enquiry-form?enquiry-type=" but I dont seem to have the option of a Before and After here?

Thanks

I have settled for a work around. I have made it so it populates a hidden text field on the form with the referral URL instead of the vehicle reference number. At least that way the office staff will be able to refer to the vehicles webpage.

If it turns out the ref number will work better. Once the site is live I will revisit this issue.

Thanks for your help.