Pulling in existing contact reference fields

[Katy J]

On Individual contacts we are have a custom field for their Local Party of type - contact reference (Autocomplete-Select) .

I am doing a webform for Individuals and I want to show them the value of this Local Party field from their record. I have tried adding a second contact to the webform and setting that as the value of Local Party on contact 1 - but I can see there is nothing really linking the 2 contacts (there's no relationship).

My question is basically, is there a way to pull in the existing value of this custom, contact reference field for contact 1 on the webform?

Thanks!

[Coleman Watts]

FYI we're starting to migrate away from these forums, so asking on SE is preferable.
But I'll be nice and answer here

The short answer is "no". Webforms does not currently have the ability to pre-populate a contact based on a custom field.
It would be a nice feature to add... something your client could sponsor?

[Katy J]

OK thanks Coleman. What is SE?

I will ask my client. Person-hours/cost involved? Email me with answer if you prefer...

[Coleman Watts]

I think it would be a 3-5 hour project. Core-team developer rates are $150/hr.

Re SE, it's in my signature

[petednz]

Otherwise can you rethink your data input so that Local Party is based on a Relationship?

[Katy J]

Thanks Peter, but this is an old and huge site - things don't get rethunk very often