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How to pass the Reference ID to the redirect URL in 123FormBuilder?

Each submission can have a unique Reference ID that can be enabled in the Advanced → Submissions section of your form within the form builder platform.

Reference ID

After submission, you can redirect users to a URL that contains this ID. Paste the URL below in the Thank You page section → Redirect to a web page box and make the indicated adjustments.

https://www.yoursite.com/file.php?yourrefid=requestRefID

Thank you page redirect

a) https://www.yoursite.com/file.php – Replace this with your custom page.

b) yourrefid – Here you can use any variable you want (ABC, Order Number, anything). The variable can be different from the one you have put in the Reference ID box, in Advanced → Submissions.

c) =requestRefID – Do not make changes to this part of the URL.

Below you have an URL example with our domain.

https://www.123formbuilder.com/file.php?OrderNumber=requestRefID

In your browser, after submitting the PHP form, the Redirect URL will look like this:  https://www.123formbuilder.com/file.php?OrderNumber=1563453426

Important Note

The Reference ID prefix can contain up to 9 characters.

Important Note

The Reference ID can only be passed like this via a link added in the Thank you page redirect box. It cannot be passed with these steps via Form Rules.
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    How can we use “=requestRefID.” from URL in thank-you page html/text… I want Ref-ID to be shown in thank-you message. Can we do that?

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  7. I get some problems with your api v2 and this tutorial.

    In fact the requestRefID i get isn’t the real id of the submission, when i look at the data, requestRefID is matching to the dateTimeUnix.

    The problem is :
    How can i have the real id of the submission so that i can use it in a /forms/{form_id}/submissions/{submission_id} request in your apiV2 ?

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    1. Hi Claire! Yes, the ReferenceID is a different ID generated automatically by our system.

      Regarding your API question, you need to get all submissions received through a form by making a GET request to /forms/{form_id}/submissions. This will give you all the submission IDs of your entries. The Submission ID is present in the Response Body section ( after “data”:[{“id”:)
      Next, you can see the details of a single submission by making a GET request to /forms/{form_id}/submissions/{submission_id} with the submission ID specified as parameter.

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