jossoway Gravity Support Forums User Favorites: jossoway en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:00:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-a-dynamically-generated-dropdown-based-on-post-title#post-250848 Mon, 13 May 2013 12:47:18 +0000 David Peralty 250848@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Glad you got it sorted out. I hope it helps others. Thanks for posting your solution. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-a-dynamically-generated-dropdown-based-on-post-title#post-250235 Mon, 13 May 2013 06:08:19 +0000 jossoway 250235@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks for pointing me in the right direction with this. I'm posting an example of my code here in case others need this solution:</p> <p>I went into the advanced tab of the relevant field (the dropdown list) and ticked 'Allow field to be populated dynamically' and gave the parameter a name. Then I opened up the relevant template and added this code at the location where I wanted the form to appear on the page:</p> <pre><code>$title = $post-&gt;post_title; echo do_shortcode(&#39;[gravityform id=&quot;1&quot; field_values=&quot;dropdown_field=&#39;.$title.&#39;&quot;]&#39;);</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-a-dynamically-generated-dropdown-based-on-post-title#post-248967 Sun, 12 May 2013 07:45:18 +0000 jossoway 248967@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks for this - am going to be working on it next week so I will let you know how i get on. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-a-dynamically-generated-dropdown-based-on-post-title#post-175286 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:15:07 +0000 Chris Hajer 175286@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>It will be much easier if you can put it in the template, especially if it is the same on every post, and is just inserted manually/identically every time. If that's possible, we can come up with the code to pre-select that drop down option. </p> <p>You could do it with the gform_field_value_your_parameter filter: <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Using_Dynamic_Population#Hooks" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Using_Dynamic_Population#Hooks</a></p> <p>Or you could put the value right in the shortcode if you embed the form like this:</p> <pre><code>[php] global $post; $title = $post-&gt;post_title; echo do_shortcode(&#39;[gravityform id=1 field_values=&#39;dropdown_field=$title&#39;]&#39;);</code></pre> <p>Something like that. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-a-dynamically-generated-dropdown-based-on-post-title#post-174976 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:52:28 +0000 jossoway 174976@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>The form has been inserted by my client onto the page using the shortcode function in the text editor toolbar, though if this is an issue I could probably put it into the template, as the form is going to be the same on all pages. I was just trying to give my client as much control over when to display the form as possible.</p> <p>Yes - the plan is for the post title to match one of the options in the drop-down exactly, and if they do match, then the drop-down option to be automatically selected.</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>John </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-a-dynamically-generated-dropdown-based-on-post-title#post-174491 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:02:29 +0000 Chris Hajer 174491@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>How are the forms getting embedded into the post? And the post title will match the career exactly? So, you have a post called "Butcher" and there is a form embedded in it, and you want the career drop down to be pre-selected "Butcher"?</p> <p>I guess it matters how the form is being embedded into the post to determine what is the easiest way to do this. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/populate-dropdown-dynamically-based-on-page-id-or-name#post-174470 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:27:02 +0000 Chris Hajer 174470@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks for the update Peter. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-a-dynamically-generated-dropdown-based-on-post-title#post-172082 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:38:21 +0000 jossoway 172082@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>A client website I am working on has a job application form built using Gravity Forms. This form is displayed only on a WordPress custom post type called 'careers'. </p> <p>The form has a dropdown list of all currently available careers, which when selected changes the form options using conditional logic.</p> <p>Rather than someone having to manually edit this dropdown list, my client would like it to be pre-populated from all currently published 'careers' custom posts on the site. They would also like an item in the dropdown to be pre-selected, so that the selection matches the careers custom post title the form is currently being displayed on.</p> <p>I have just implemented the following for the first requirement and it works great:<br /> <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Dynamically_Populating_Drop_Down_Fields" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Dynamically_Populating_Drop_Down_Fields</a></p> <p>How would I extend this function to pre-select an option from the dropdown that matches the current custom post title?</p> <p>Thanks in advance!</p> <p>John </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/populate-dropdown-dynamically-based-on-page-id-or-name#post-171478 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:47:44 +0000 pmwebdev 171478@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Merge tags were the answer - so thanks Chris. Regards, Peter. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/populate-dropdown-dynamically-based-on-page-id-or-name#post-170988 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:09:11 +0000 Chris Hajer 170988@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Do you have an example of this form online, and an explanation of how the post and the drop down are related?</p> <p>It might be as simple as using a a merge tag as the default value. You could use {embed_post:post_title} to get the post/page title, or {embed_post:ID} to get the post ID. Merge tags are documented here: <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Merge_Tags" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Merge_Tags</a> </p>