With a URL parameter
If you created multiple web forms for the same Podio app, it might be useful to track in Podio which form was submitted. This allows you to A/B test web forms or to track which channels are used the most.
In order to achieve this, you can follow this steps:
- Add a single choice category field to your app template where each value refers to a different web form.
- Add this field to your web form and set the display setting to ‘hidden’
- For each web form, pre-fill the value of this category field with the corresponding value
The form submissions from the different web forms will then be flagged with the corresponding source value.
Fill the field in without a URL parameter
If you do not want to depend on the form URL, give the hidden field a **Default value** in the form builder instead. Open the settings of the field component, set **Default value** to the label for that form, for example `CONTACTFORM`, and check **Hidden**. Every submission of that form then arrives in Podio with that value filled in.
This also separates form submissions from items your team creates by hand in Podio. Items created manually leave the field empty, so a Podio automation with the filter “field is CONTACTFORM” runs for the form only. Give each form its own default value and you can count submissions per form in a Podio report on that field.