How to pre-fill data in Dropbox Forms
Updated Nov 25, 2025
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Important note: Dropbox Forms will be discontinued on September 30, 2025. As of September 2, 2025, you’ll no longer be able to create new workflows with Forms, but you’ll be able to view existing workflows as well as export them until the September 30 deadline.
Form-to-form mapping is a way to copy data from one form to the next by setting repeating components to pre-fill from previously entered information.
To add pre-fill options to your form components:
- Log in to your account.
- Open or create a workflow with multiple forms within it.
- Click the dropdown next to the name of the form in the upper left.
- Choose any form in the workflow other than the first one.
- Click on the component you’d like to pre-fill with data from a previous form in the workflow.
- Click Add next to Pre-Fill.
- Choose the applicable data source from the pre-fill menu.
Note: Only components of the same type will be shown as data source. For example, only date components from previous form will be shown when pre-filling a date component.
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