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Excluding Fields from Native Form Submissions

Article: 000050481
Updated: July 26, 2024

Prevent certain form fields from being submitted to Lead Gen & CRM

When submitting native form data, you can exclude fields. There are reasons why you may want to exclude fields from being submitted to Lead Gen & CRM - for example, in the event that the field contains sensitive data or the field would cause the submission of the form to fail.

 
 
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Excluding Fields

When collecting form data, there can be reasons to exclude a field from the submission to Lead Gen & CRM. 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 Lead Gen & CRM.
     
  • Fields that cause form submissions to fail. Some third-party providers add additional fields that do not need to be collected by Lead Gen & CRM, 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. Click Forms in the left toolbar.
  2. Create or open a native form.
  3. Copy the form's embed code.
  4. Add the  var hidden = []; code snippet directly below the 
    var __ss_noform = __ss_noform || []; code snippet in a text editor.
  5. Add the hidden.push("field_name_1"); code snippet underneath the var hidden = []; 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 Lead Gen & CRM.

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

Note: Constant Contact offers Professional Services to assist with custom coding.


Code Examples

The following is an example embed code before edits.
 

<!-- Lead Gen & CRM 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.
 

<!-- Lead Gen & CRM 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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