Appendix: Online Form import fields¶
ASM will recognise fields with the following names when receiving incoming online form submissions. These can be used to create person, lost animal, found animal, incident and waiting list records as well as attach to existing animal records.
- title
- The person’s title, eg: Mr
- initials
- The person’s initials
- forenames / firstname
- The person’s first name
- surname / lastname
- The person’s last name
- address
- The person’s address
- town / city
- The person’s town or city
- county / state
- The person’s county or state
- postcode / zipcode
- The person’s postcode or zipcode
- hometelephone
- The person’s home phone number
- worktelephone
- The person’s work phone number
- mobiletelephone / celltelephone
- The person’s mobile number
- emailaddress
- The person’s email address
- excludefrombulkemail
- If this field is supplied and not a blank or “No” in your language, the exclude from bulk email flag will be set for the created person
- description
- The description for the lost, found or waiting list animal
- reason
- The reason the person is putting their animal on the waiting list
- type
- The animal type for the animal. ASM will try and guess based on the text which one is meant. Use a lookup field to limit the choices to known items.
- species
- The species of the animal. ASM will try and guess based on the text which one is meant. Use a lookup field to limit the choices to known items (or use the Species field type)
- breed
- The breed of the animal. ASM will try and guess one of it’s lookup values (or use the Breed field type to limit to them)
- agegroup
- The age group of the animal. Again, ASM will try and guess one if it’s internal values.
- color / colour
- The colour of the animal. ASM will try and guess a match (or use the Color field type to limit to them)
- datelost
- The date the animal was lost (lost animals only)
- datefound
- The date the animal was found (found animals only)
- arealost
- The area the animal was lost in (lost animals only)
- areafound
- The area the animal was found in (found animals only)
- areapostcode / areazipcode
- The postcode/zipcode area the animal was lost or found in
- microchip
- The animal’s microchip number
- animalname
- The name of an existing shelter animal to attach this form to if specified (use the adoptable/shelter animal field types to get a valid animal name from your form)
- reserveanimalname[x]
- The name of a shelter/adoptable animal to reserve to the imported person record. This is useful when creating adoption application forms to automatically tie the person to the animal they are interested in adopting. Unlike the other keys, you can add a numeric suffix to have multiple animals reserved by the imported person (eg: reserveanimalname1, reserveanimalname2…)
- callnotes
- When creating an incident, the incident notes
- dispatchaddress / dispatchcity / dispatchstate / dispatchzipcode
- The dispatch address for an incident