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

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/auto-populated-placeholder-answers-make-people-think-its-answered/76740>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [October 1, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/auto-populated-placeholder-answers-make-people-think-its-answered/76740 "2024-10-01T19:01:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jessie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jessie/32/57740_2.png) [@Jessie](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jessie)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/auto-populated-placeholder-answers-make-people-think-its-answered/76740/1 "2024-10-01T19:01:06Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![nubian\_nomad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@nubian\_nomad](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nubian_nomad)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/auto-populated-placeholder-answers-make-people-think-its-answered/76740/2 "2024-10-01T19:08:52Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![micheal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/micheal/32/80181_2.png) [@micheal](https://community.glideapps.com/u/micheal)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/auto-populated-placeholder-answers-make-people-think-its-answered/76740/3 "2024-10-01T19:22:37Z")

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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.  
 ![2024-10-01 20_19_34-Window](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/3/d/3d8921df9fa80fc2c0bf87281ed4d5f2800b50dc.png)

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**Author:** ![Jessie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jessie/32/57740_2.png) [@Jessie](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jessie)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/auto-populated-placeholder-answers-make-people-think-its-answered/76740/4 "2024-10-01T19:26:52Z")

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@nubian_nomad - yes auto-referencing existing row 🙂

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

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/auto-populated-placeholder-answers-make-people-think-its-answered/76740/5 "2024-10-08T19:27:30Z")

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