Dynamic Prefill for Salesforce Jotform Integration
Jotform is an online form builder that allows users to create and publish forms, with the ability to collect responses and data efficiently. The platform offers a range of features including payment integration, data collection, and custom form creation.
Jotform automates the flow of data collected through forms and sends it directly into Salesforce. This integration helps organizations leverage real-time data for better decision-making and workflow.
Jotform recently announced five new Salesforce integration features, including the dynamic prefill for online forms, a highly anticipated feature. From increasing data accuracy with dynamic prefill capabilities to simplifying document management, these updates focus on productivity and user experience. This overview explores how these innovative features can refine processes and help organizations work more efficiently.
Salesforce Dynamic Prefill
This feature dynamically fills forms with real-time data from Salesforce, supporting all Salesforce objects, including the custom ones. It enhances the form-filling experience by ensuring data accuracy and user efficiency.
🚨 Use Case 👇🏼
Here is a sign up page for a Nonprofit volunteer event. The current contact information will be pulled and displayed if the volunteer is found in the system. The user can then update the information in Salesforce if necessary. A new record is created if the information is not found in the system.
Remember to include multiple fields to match the user entry to your record so that the information won’t be displayed easily to an external attacker. Use this functionality responsibly. A combination of email, mobile phone, and first and last name could be used for this purpose.
If you have postal code information in Salesforce, then you can also use postal code. For this example, I matched the last name and email. When the user completes the email entry and hits the tab key on the keyboard, the form prefills automatically if there is a match.
Prefill Link Automation
Generate personalized form links using Salesforce merge fields. This facilitates quick and personalized form delivery; ideal for customizing email automation.
🚨 Use case 👇🏼
Many Nonprofits use the lead object to bring in new volunteer applications. When you have a form published on the web, there are many submissions with incomplete or inaccurate information. When the volunteer manager advances the lead record to the working stage, a record-triggered flow sends out an email to the lead asking them to review and edit their information for accuracy.
The automation is a simple flow that triggers an email action. You can either use an email template or a text template to construct the personalized URL along with the URL parameters necessary for the form prefill to work.
Pro-tip: The dynamic prefill form base URL differs from the standard form URL in Jotform. If you use the standard form URL, then the prefill functionality won’t work.
For my text template, my hyperlink code was as follows:
href="https://form.jotform.com/242874106631051/prefill/01928ce72b4e76bc99ca173e13ab56da6c70?name3[last]={!$Record.LastName}&email8={!$Record.Email}">Click here to go to the form</a>
Please note that Jotform generates field names for your form fields. They provide a tool, field prepopulator, that helps you generate the URL code. Use it.
See the email that the volunteer receives below.
When the volunteer clicks on the link, they will see the form prefilled, as seen below. Note that not all the fields have value. This is the step where the user can update the missing information.
Integration Logs for Advanced Error Management
This tool provides detailed logs to help users manage and troubleshoot their Salesforce integrations. It ensures visibility and control by capturing errors and offering daily summaries.
🚨 Use case 👇🏼
A sales team at a large electronics distributor uses a complex Salesforce integration to sync sales data from multiple online platforms. They often face issues with data mismatches and lost sales entries due to system errors during high-traffic periods like product launches and sales events.
Using the Integration Logs for Advanced Error Management feature, the sales team can monitor and log every data transfer between Salesforce and their online sales platforms. This feature helps them quickly identify and rectify errors. With detailed error reports, the team can ensure data integrity and streamline their sales processes, leading to more accurate sales tracking and improved customer satisfaction.
Send Files and PDFs to Salesforce
This function allows automatic syncing of form-related documents and PDFs to Salesforce, keeping all submissions organized and accessible within Salesforce records.
To activate this feature, navigate to the Form Builder, select the Settings tab, and proceed to Integrations. Look for the Attachments section near the bottom, where you can toggle the option to send file uploads and PDFs of submissions as attachments to the created Salesforce record, found in the Notes & Attachments section of the record.
In the Salesforce Integration Settings under the Attachment Field, you can select from multiple file upload fields to gather attachments. Shared access to images and file uploads supports your team’s collaborative work.
Attach Signed Documents to Salesforce Records
With the Jotform Enterprise + Salesforce integration, you can supercharge your workflow by automatically sending e-signature documents to Salesforce records. Using Jotform Sign, these documents are directly linked to the relevant records, simplifying access and management, while saving you time and effort.
Setting up this automation is straightforward. Within the Jotform Sign Builder, simply configure your Salesforce integration to attach signed documents directly to records, complete with options for including an audit trail. This ensures your documents are always organized and easily accessible within Salesforce, enhancing your document management processes.
Conclusion
The enhanced features of the Salesforce + Jotform integration offer exciting opportunities to improve your data management processes. As you incorporate these new functionalities into your operations, you’re not just simplifying data intake and document handling, but also enhancing the overall efficiency of your team.
If you’re more of a visual learner, check out these videos 👇🏼
This post was sponsored by Jotform.
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