Form-O-Fill Tutorials

Tour 4: Before function 101

Before function 101

This tutorial will introduce you to before functions.

The main usage is the preparation of data before the rule execution starts.

In this tutorial we will generate data and even request dynamic data from a remote source via jQuery.

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Lets learn about before functions.

They are named before because these functions get executed once per rule before the rule starts to execute.

Every rule can have multiple of these but using one is usually easier.

This input element will be filled via a combination of before and value function.

I just imported the corresponding rule into Form-O-Fill.

Let's have a look.

To access the options page right click on the icon and choose Options.

It looks like this in the german version of chrome:

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