Redirect to another page after form submit : Unbounce Answers

Photis Patriotis

Can you pass the fields to the next URL with a get (e.g. first_name=abcd)?

February 07, 2011 12:46 pm

Carter Gilchrist

Unbounce

Hi Photis, unfortunately you can't pass the field params along (yet) but we've had this request a few times so we'll be looking at making this possible. That being said, we do have a method for POSTing your form to another URL. If your confirmation page was hosted by you and able to read POST vars then you should be able to accomplish what you're looking for. Read about the POST to URL method here...

February 07, 2011 06:06 pm

Photis Patriotis

Carter,

Thanks a lot for the response. This definitely makes sense.

The main reason I ask is because I'm creating a two part form, and it would be REALLY easy with the way you guys have implemented the default URL vars and to put them into a hidden field in the second Unbounce page (e.g. have a field called foo_bar that's filled out on the first page, then have a hidden one called foo_bar on the second that gets the value passed in via URL).

For now, I can do a custom form on the first page that goes into your second page. Just thought that would be a cool way to do multiple page forms.

Photis

February 07, 2011 07:09 pm

Carter Gilchrist

Unbounce

Ahh ya that makes sense. Multi-step forms is what a number of users have requested, so we'll tackle it soon hopefully. I'll let you know (with an update to this thread) when a solution is available.

February 07, 2011 07:17 pm

Pablo Ambram

this method is not working for me...

February 27, 2011 03:34 pm

Oli Gardner

Unbounce

Hi Pablo,

Can you explain what it is that isn't working for you? (The redirect or the URL parameters).

Thanks

February 28, 2011 12:32 am

Pablo Ambram

Hi Oli,

thanks for the response. Yeah, sorry for not being specific. After a bunch of hours testing and researching how to do this yesterday, found out that:

The redirect is working fine, and using postbin.org shows that the POST variables are indeed being passed along... I have my thankyou page set up as a Wordpress page, and I installed plugins there to help me execute php code to extract the variables. But they are always empty in my case.

February 28, 2011 02:41 am

Scott Wormington

Is it possible to show a confirmation box AND redirect to another webpage?

February 28, 2011 10:55 am

Carter Gilchrist

Unbounce

@Pablo: Sorry it's not working for you, what wordpress plugin are you using? It sounds like everything is working as expected on the Unbounce side, but let us know if there's anything we can do to help.

@Scott: Did you want the confirmation to show and then redirect after a certain period of time?

February 28, 2011 10:59 am

Scott Wormington

Hi Carter - yes, exactly (confirmation & then redirect after a period of time). The goal would be to save on creating a Thank You page.

February 28, 2011 11:19 am

Carter Gilchrist

Unbounce

Hi Scott, you should be able to accomplish this with a little bit of javascript. Copy and paste the following snippet into the "Scripts" section of your Confirmation Dialog page (make sure this tab is selected when you're in the editor). Set the "Placement" to "Head".

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
  window.setTimeout(function() {
    parent.location = "http://unbounce.com";
  }, 2000);
</script>

You can adjust the time delay in milliseconds (so right now the 2000 is 2 seconds) and obviously change the URL from unbounce.com to your own destination URL. Let me know if that works for you!

February 28, 2011 12:13 pm

Scott Wormington

That's fantastic. Thanks so much for your help Carter. It worked like a charm!

February 28, 2011 04:29 pm

Carter Gilchrist

Unbounce

No worries, glad it helped! If enough people find it useful maybe we'll work it in as a core feature.

February 28, 2011 04:42 pm

Anubhav Mehrotra

I want to link in a form submission to an https page essentially ties in on my landing page. That secure page has a submission confirmation page setup. Anyway possible for me to link my existing submit page with the unbounce landing page so that the new landing page operates in the same manner ? (I want the form on the unbounce page to be plugged in to execute the backend code on my app)

July 01, 2011 08:48 am

Ryan Engley

Unbounce

Hello Anubhav

If I understand correctly, right now you have some script on the submission confirmation page of your https page that you want implemented in Unbounce. If this is the case, it should just be a matter of pasting the script you want executed into the 'JS Scripts' dialog box on the 'Form Confirmation Dialog' tab of the editor. If I'm mistaken, or if you need any further assistance, just send us an email at support@unbounce.com and we'll see if we can figure this out.

July 05, 2011 05:09 pm

Duncan Gledhill

Hi Carter, any luck on that multi step form yet?

July 13, 2011 09:06 am

Carter Gilchrist

Unbounce

Hey Duncan, unfortunately no we haven't gotten to implement multi-step forms yet, although it would be possible with a little scripting. Do you have access to host a PHP script on your side? If so I will write an article about how to accomplish it with a few "hacks" so to speak.

July 14, 2011 10:28 pm

Carter Gilchrist

Unbounce

Ok, so I went ahead and wrote up an article for how to hook up two (or more) landing pages with forms to be a multi-step form, you can read it here. Hope that helps!

July 15, 2011 12:04 am

Kris Neese

Are these instructions still accurate? I am looking all over my form and can't find anywhere to set the destination URL

Under Properties Panel I see Geometry/ Border Properties/ Background Properties. No sign of "Go To URL".

August 17, 2011 04:27 pm

Ryan Engley

Unbounce

Hi Kris - it sounds like you just need to select your form. If you click anywhere within your form (other than the button) you should see the other options show up in the properties pane.

August 17, 2011 04:51 pm

Marketing Communications

Hi Guys, I tried the form confirmation that is there by default, I tried a separate URL, but after hitting the button it goes blank, the information is collected, but the message does not come up at all, any help please?

October 06, 2011 07:16 pm

Fred Lowe

Hi Guys,

I am unable to get the thank you page linked to the landing page. I have already added the url into the field and published(and republished) the page, however when I refresh the page and resubmit the form it still shows the "show form confirmation dialogue box"....

Can any one tell me why? I have also tried adding in other urls for testing like google etc.. still the same outcome!

Hope this is enough info!

February 27, 2012 05:31 am

Fred Lowe

To follow on my previous comment. I believe the cache on your side is a bit slow and is not caching correctly.

I say this because now that I have tried a different url, it is now displaying my google test url from the previous test. I hope this makes sense.

Can any one shed some more light into this please?

February 27, 2012 05:48 am

Fred Lowe

Sorry for the spam...

It is working now. After many forced refreshes. (Ctrl+f5) =)

February 27, 2012 05:51 am

Mohamed Hersi

Is there a new method for Redirect. It's not working for me.

November 16, 2012 08:28 am

Ryan Engley

Unbounce

Mohamed - this is your best bet to send users to another URL after they submit the form. There are no known issues with the feature so you could email support@unbounce.com with a link to your page so we can double check your page's set up?

November 16, 2012 10:43 am

Diana Carpenter

@Carter @Scott

Thanks for asking/answering this question on here! Exactly what I was looking for. Has something been developed to make this easier yet?

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Hi Scott, you should be able to accomplish this with a little bit of javascript. Copy and paste the following snippet into the "Scripts" section of your Confirmation Dialog page (make sure this tab is selected when you're in the editor). Set the "Placement" to "Head".

window.setTimeout(function() {

parent.location = "http://unbounce.com";

}, 2000);

</script>

You can adjust the time delay in milliseconds (so right now the 2000 is 2 seconds) and obviously change the URL from unbounce.com to your own destination URL. Let me know if that works for you!

April 25, 2013 10:32 am

Ryan Engley

Unbounce

@Diana - Instead of showing your visitors the confirmation dialog, you can easily send them to any webpage you choose. Would that work for you? The solution listed above (with the redirect) is really just intended for people who want to show the confirmation dialog *and* redirect to another page.

April 25, 2013 03:06 pm

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