Do all dynamic data fields in Bricks support the {echo:} function? Some form fields aren't working

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Do all dynamic data fields in Bricks support the {echo:} function? It seems the form “Send to” field in the form element does not seem to support it.

I am trying to create a custom contact form that sends emails to a hidden email address taken from a function in functions.php. The function takes a value from the URL parameter “sendto” and simply returns the correct email for the form to send the email to.

The function works well if I use it anywhere else on the page, but when trying to set the “Send to custom email address” field to {echo:get_hidden_email()} it doesn’t parse the function. I got it working by setting the value of a hidden field to this function result and then grab it by field ID - but the email address is still in the HTML of the page which I need to avoid.

function get_hidden_email() {

    $sendto=bricks_render_dynamic_data('{url_parameter:sendto}');
    if($sendto == 'secr') {
            return 'secret-email@gmail.com';
    } else {
            return 'default@gmail.com';
    }

}

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I figured out the issue if it helps anyone else - the url parameter doesn’t get passed to the form processing script since that runs separate from the page itself. My workaround was to copy the URL parameter into a hidden field and pass that field data into the {echo:function(‘’)}.

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