How does one populate existing contact information for an arbitrary contact ID?

[mwittmann]

I'd like to be able to use Caldera Forms CiviCRM to edit the information for an existing contact who is not the logged in user.

How can I automatically populate the form with another contact's information? How could the contact ID be passed as a parameter?

[mecachisenros]

This will be available in the next release, or you can test on the current dev branch.

You can add the contact ID as a query arg to the url where you have the form i.e. cid=123 where 123 is the contact ID, for example if your form is at https://example.org/some-page you would add the query arg like so https://example.org/some-page/?cid=123.

If you have enough permissions to edit that contact it will auto populate its data and you should be able to update it.