Get data from one page to another using form submission

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Hey everyone!

I have a CMS with multiple events and each event has it’s own URL (to an external website)
After the user click on one event, I show a pop up form
The user enters the information (name, email), submit it and I take him to a “Thank you” page
On the “Thank You” page I show a button with the URL from the event he clicked on the main page

There are several ways of doing this and I think using cookies should work, but I want to know if you can point me in the right direction.

What is the best and simplest way of doing this?

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In this situation I would use sessionStorage.

On your page with the pop-up form, capture the submit event for the form, and save the URL to sessionStorage.

On your thank you page, you can retrieve it and apply it to the button.

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Hey Michael! Thanks for your insight. It worked very well.

If anyone needs a similar solution, this is what I did:

Since I have all the events on a CMS, I created an HTML embed inside the form, inside the CMS item. The embed have the hidden field with the URL I need on the next page, like this:

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Onte the “value” attribute, I added the field “link” that contains the URL on my CMS, using the “Add field”, inside the HTML Embed configuration window.

Then I created a script to get that hidden value and input on the session storage as memetican indicated, as he clicks to send the form. Like this:

$('form .event').click(function() {
        const url = $(this).siblings('#ty-url').val();        

   	sessionStorage.setItem('my-url', url);
    });

To get this URL and input it on a button on the next page, I used this code on the next page:

const link = document.querySelector('#ty-link');

const url = sessionStorage.getItem('my-url');

link.setAttribute('href', url);

I’m not a code expert, but this made the trick. If you stumble on this thread and need more directions, you can ask me.

Thanks again Michael!

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