Creating Hidden Fields

Hidden fields are fields that are invisible to a person who is filling out the form

Learn how to create hidden fields and collect information that cannot be edited by a user.

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Creating Fields

Hidden fields are invisible to users filling out a form. Hidden fields can also be used to detect whether a bot submitted the form information. Human users cannot even view the hidden field, but bots can view the field. If that field is filled out, you will know that a bot filled it out instead of a human user.

To add a hidden field to Lead Gen & CRM, do the following:

1. Click Settings in the left toolbar.
2. Click Custom Fields, located under Features in the left panel.
3. Click Add Field. 
   
   
   
   
4. Enter the Field Label or name of your new custom field.
   
   Important: Creating a custom field with the same name as a system field makes that system field invisible and unusable on the platform. Contact Support to restore system fields.
   
   
5. Select the Lead Relationship.
6. Select a folder to put your new custom field in, if needed.
7. Click the Hidden radio button in the Field Type section.
   
8. Complete additional fields as necessary and click Create Field. 
   
    
   

Changing an existing field

Field Types cannot be changed after they are created. You cannot change a field to a Hidden field; instead, you will need to create a new field. 

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