Auto-populated placeholder answers make people think it's answered

When people sign up, it carries the first name and last name into the new profile, which is great. This could be a way to skip having to type it. But when I carry the first name into a required field as a placeholder, it seems to the user like it’s already completed - but then the submit button doesn’t turn on since it actually is an empty field.

Any suggestions?

Could you explain what you mean by “I carry the first name into a required field as a placeholder”? Are you setting a placeholder value in the layout/UI to reference a field in the table or is auto referencing an existing row values itself?

Do you want the user to retype it?
If not then you can just let it have a default value or set a custom value that writes it there.

If it’s compulsory use the default value as their initial name if they wish to change it they will do so.
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@nubian_nomad - yes auto-referencing existing row :slight_smile:

@micheal - no I’d rather not have the user retype it, so thank you for this guidance!

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