I have gated content forms that are hidden to known visitors. However, these still appear as form fills in activity logs and triggers that look for the form fills. How can I create a smart list of people who actually filled out the form vs those who were known and automatically accessed the gated content?

Surprisingly, there’s no built-in way to use Smart List filters to distinguish Known Visitor HTML form submits from “true” form submits. Dillon’s suggestion of looking at those who were created by/acquired by a form vs. those who already were in the db when they filled out the form is a good one. But it’s incomplete: someone could still not be known in a given browser/device session, so they’d see and fill out the entire form even though they will not be created bythe form. If you look at the details of the Filled Out Form activity, you can see a difference: if you have hidden fields added from UTM params, cookies, etc. those won’t be present if the KV HTML was shown. But that’s kind of a bug, so I’ve posted code to work around it. Once you work around it, the Filled Out Form-s will be indistinguishable again! What you can then do is have a separate hidden field expressly for this purpose, like isKVHTML, and populate that hidden field only in KV HTML mode. Then you can see isKVHTML=yes in the log. But still not in at the Smart List level.

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How to identify who was a "known" person who bypassed the form in a smart list?

Thank you for your response here, Sanford. I was going to bring this up in one of the NYMUG calls. I will check out the code you provided to preserve the utms for known users.

It would be nice to easily see a different activity type from "form fill" for known visitors.

How to identify who was a "known" person who bypassed the form in a smart list?

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