table28 Gravity Support Forums User Favorites: Table28 en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:59:15 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/forms-to-auto-populate-registered-user-fields#post-184733 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:28:19 +0000 Chris Hajer 184733@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>So long as the technician is logged in, you can use any information which is stored in their profile. For example, if the technician registered initially and entered "255709986" as their certification number and you stored that in a meta key with a key name of "tech_certification" you could always pull that out of their profile, so long as they are logged in, by using a merge tag like this for the default value of a form field where you want to record that information for the main office to see it:<br /> <pre><code>{user:tech_certification}</code></pre> <p>Enter that merge tag as the default value for a field, and that meta value will be pulled from the logged in user's profile and used for the value there. You can make this an admin only field if you don't want the tech to even see the number there. It will be recorded for admin use only. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/forms-to-auto-populate-registered-user-fields#post-184176 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:43:43 +0000 realroy 184176@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>For instance, each technician has his own certification number. The main office needs that info, but the tech doesn't want to enter it each time he submits a report.</p> <p>If that tech certification number was collected in a custom field as part of the WP user profile (possible?), then could the number be auto-populated in a form using GF that submits back to the office? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/forms-to-auto-populate-registered-user-fields#post-184129 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:51:35 +0000 Chris Hajer 184129@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Please explain a little more about what you would like to do. Gravity Forms User Registration add-on can collect information and store it as part of the user profile (in the usermeta table.) If you are using the 1.5beta version of the User Registration add-on, you can edit and update a user profile. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/forms-to-auto-populate-registered-user-fields#post-182373 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:22:10 +0000 realroy 182373@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thank you, Chris. Is it possible to add fields to the WP user and pre-populate them with GF? (I'm thinking of custom fields required to collect certification numbers in this project, etc.) </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/forms-to-auto-populate-registered-user-fields#post-181926 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:48:17 +0000 Chris Hajer 181926@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You can pre-populate Gravity Forms fields with the user information for the logged in user. You would use our merge tags: <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Merge_Tags" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Merge_Tags</a></p> <p>In the format:</p> <p>{user:first_name}<br /> {user:last_name}<br /> {user:display_name}<br /> {user:user_email}<br /> {user:user_login}<br /> {user:[meta_key]} </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/forms-to-auto-populate-registered-user-fields#post-181248 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:24:07 +0000 AndyDods 181248@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I am keen to find out how to do this as well... </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/forms-to-auto-populate-registered-user-fields#post-180249 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:39:46 +0000 realroy 180249@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have a project that requires access for technicians to submit data readings at multiple locations, and I would like to know if GF can handle this...</p> <p>I had previously set up forms from another plugin and placed them on password-protected WP pages. Users have now requested that these forms auto-populate with technician-specific data, including names, certification numbers, email addresses, etc., so that they don't have to input those details every time they submit. Can GF pull this info from a WP user profile and inject it into each form? Or perhaps accomplish this another way?</p> <p>I'm not a programmer, so if GF is simple, yet powerful, enough to handle this project, I'd like to get a developer's license and use it for several other sites as well. Thanks for your input. </p>