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Posted: **Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:21 pm**

Hey all,
I am making a contact form as well as an equipment rental form for an IOS app.
Both forms use the same information for some of the fields (name, email, phone) but are on different cards.
Can one field populate the other field, even on different cards?

Ex. "name" on card 1 populates "name" on card 6.

Thanks
- Jay

Posted: **Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:29 pm**

Sure, use something like this:

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on preOpenCard -- in the second card
  repeat for each item i in "name,address,city,state" -- list fields here, no spaces
     put fld i of cd "firstcard" into fld i
  end repeat
end preOpenCard

That will update the fields just before the second card is opened. Or if you prefer, you can do it on a closefield in the first card so it's dynamically updated on the fly:

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on closeField
  put the short name of the target into tFld
  if tFld is among the items of "name,address,city,state" then
    put target into fld tFld of card "secondcard"
  end if
end closeField

Note the difference between "the target" (which is the field name) and "target" (which is the contents of the field.)

Posted: **Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:59 pm**

THANK YOU so much!
Very excited to try this.

- Jay

(15 minutes later)
Awesome! This works perfectly!
So excited.

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