Below is a Form1 widget, containing a TextInput2 widget, a HiddenField widget and a SubmitButton2 widget. The HiddenField widget has it 'hidden_field' value set to the string "abcd" which will be sent when the form is submitted.

This table lists the Responders called to produce this page:

skiwidgets,10302SubmitDataSets up the hiddenfield page
skiwidgets,10304This pageThis page is a template for the inputforms.HiddenField widget

This is a ShowCallData widget, which displays the contents of the skicall.call_data dictionary.

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Below is the Python file which populates this page.

import os

from skipole import FailPage, GoTo, ValidateError, ServerError, ServeFile, PageData, SectionData


def index(skicall):
    "Called by a SubmitData responder, and sets up the page"

    # the title and widget decription is in section 'header' which contains a
    # HeadText widget with name 'title' and a TextBlockPara widget with name 'widgetdesc'
    # It also has a ButtonLink2 widget with name 'tomodule'
    headersection = SectionData('header')
    headersection['title', 'large_text'] = 'HiddenField'
    # A textblock contains the widget description
    ref = "widgets.inputforms.HiddenField"
    headersection['widgetdesc','textblock_ref'] = ref
    headersection['widgetdesc','text_refnotfound'] = f'Textblock reference {ref} not found'
    # link to this widgets module page
    headersection['tomodule','button_text'] = "Module: inputforms"
    headersection['tomodule','link_ident'] = skicall.makepath('inputforms')
    skicall.update(headersection)

    # this code file contents is placed in section 'codefile' which contains a
    # PreText widget with name 'pretext'
    codesection = SectionData('codefile')
    code = os.path.realpath(__file__)
    with open(code) as f:
        codesection['pretext', 'pre_text'] = f.read()
    skicall.update(codesection)

 
def submit_fields(skicall):
    """Responds to submission from textinput2, and hiddenfield which are
       contained in form1
       The AllowStore responder calling this function has as its target the
       SubmitData responder which calls the above index function. So the
       returned HTML page has both the sections completed and those widgets
       set here completed"""

    if ('textinput2', 'input_text') not in skicall.call_data:
        raise FailPage(message="No submission received")

    if ('hiddenfield', 'hidden_field') not in skicall.call_data:
        raise FailPage(message="No submission received")

    pd = PageData()
    pd['result','para_text'] = "Text Received : " + skicall.call_data['textinput2', 'input_text']
    pd['result2','para_text'] = "Hidden Text Received : " + skicall.call_data['hiddenfield', 'hidden_field']
    # And fill in the textinput2 field so the last submission remains visible
    if skicall.call_data['textinput2', 'input_text']:
        pd['textinput2', 'input_text'] = skicall.call_data['textinput2', 'input_text']
        # and set the field to geen, to show input has been accepted
        pd['textinput2', 'set_input_accepted'] = True
    else:
        # empty text, set the field to red
        pd['textinput2', 'set_input_errored'] = True
    skicall.update(pd)