Umbraco Forms - pre-populate form with values from existing record

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Hi guys,

Got a bit of a weird requirement here, we basically need a way for our users to pre-populate a new record with values from an existing record.

I have actually managed to hack something together that works… kind of… but the issue is that it’s actually updating the existing record rather than creating a new one.

My current approach is to manually render the form using a custom view component, using IFormRenderingService and specifically the PrePopulateForm method, and this kind of works, but as mentioned above it leads to the existing record being updated rather than a new record being created.

Has anyone got experience with this kind of thing?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

PS I’m using Umbraco 13.

TIA

Phil

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