When you are creating a form or working with the information submitted to a form, for example when setting up an auto-responder message from a form, you often need to use dynamic information from that form. For example, if you wanted your auto-responder message to start with “Hi Roy” when the value of the form field with the slug “first_name” was Roy and start with “Hi Rachel” when the value of the form field with the slug “first_name” was Rachel, you would write “Hi %first_name%” in the beginning of your auto-responder message.
In Conversational Form Builder, we use the term “Magic Tag” to refer to the placeholders that you use while setting up your forms, which are then dynamically replaced by Conversational Form Builder. They are also much like WordPress shortcodes.
Conversational Form Builders magic tags come in a single form:
- Field Slug Magic Tags Example %primary_email%. These magic tags substitute for the value of a field. They identify fields by their slugs.
Where Magic Tags Can Be Used #
Magic tags can be used as the default value of a form field or the value of a hidden field. They can also be used as the values of variables, or to create emails, or to populate processor settings.
Every field in the current form has a magic tag formed with the field’s slug with a percentage sign before and after. For example, if you have a field in your form with the slug “hats” and wanted to show its value in the email, you would use the magic tag “%hats%”.
