Answer piping

Answer piping lets you reference a respondent's earlier answers directly in field labels and help text. It makes forms feel personal and conversational.

Syntax

Use double curly braces with the field's pipe slug:

{{field_slug}}

For example, if your first field asks for a first name and its slug is first_name, you can write:

"Thanks {{first_name}}, what's your company called?"

When the respondent fills in their first name — say "Jordan" — subsequent fields show:

"Thanks Jordan, what's your company called?"

Where piping works

Piping tokens can be used in:

• Field labels — the heading text above any field
• Help text — the descriptive text below any field

Piping does not work in placeholder text, success messages, or hidden default values.

Using the autocomplete

In the form builder's label and help text inputs, type {{ to open the pipe autocomplete. It shows all eligible source fields (those appearing before the current field). Select one to insert the token.

Namespacing

All pipe slugs are namespaced by their object type to avoid ambiguity when multiple fields share the same attribute name (e.g. people.name vs companies.name). The autocomplete handles this automatically and inserts the correct fully-qualified slug.

Fallback behaviour

If a piped field has no value (the respondent skipped it or it is hidden), the token is replaced with an empty string. Design your labels to read naturally even when the piped value is absent — avoid constructions like "Hello, {{name}}!" where the comma looks odd if the name is blank.