By adding parameters to the public form URL, you can automatically gather and pass meta information to the workflow and external databases. This way you exchange manual data input for automation.
When you create a public form for users, you can specify that certain parameters are added to the form URL. The parameters are transformed into data references in the launched workflow instance and can be used within Next Matter or passed to an external database such as Redshift.
This way, you don’t have to add the references manually but specify which references you want to get, and those are automatically gathered, which saves you time and increases the reliability of data collection. You can also use this feature to connect any in-house-developed system to Next Matter or to automatically gather user data.
For example:
country
and time
should be appended to the URL. This will configure the form link to be: https://app.nextmatter.com/portal/2974dc3c-61fd-40b4-a292-38117cef36e9?country=value&time=value
https://app.nextmatter.com/portal/2974dc3c-61fd-40b4-a292-38117cef36e9?country=Spain&time=Monday
country
and time
become variables that can be reused throughout the workflow and are stored in the instance.Notes: