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Question About Email Population in Recommendation Widget Usage

I am using the recommendation widget on an external page, using the on page load scenario. It works as expected, but I do have a question about email population. Am I supposed to be passing a subscriber's email address to the object. There are videos showing what the widget looks like, but not what the experience should be when someone does click through to subscribe so I am not sure if the dialog requesting the email address is expected or a misconfiguration on my part

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EJ W.
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When embedding the beehiiv Recommendations Widget on an external page using a form submission trigger, you can pass a subscriber's email address to the widget to streamline the user experience. If the email address is not provided, the widget will prompt users to enter it during the subscription process. Since you have access to the subscribers' email addresses, you can include this information directly in the widget configuration to avoid unnecessary prompts.
Akeem A.
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thank you, is there documentation on how to pass this to the configuration? I have a hunch on how to do this based on looking a the script but would appreciate something to refer to so I am not rolling my own if it isnt needed
EJ W.
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Let me check
Akeem A.
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thank you, I ended up added the email as a query param on the external page I am displaying the widget and it looks like that works but knowing if that is a correct way to do this that wont break in the future would be good