https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/add-entry-id-to-post-custom-field Gravity Support Forums Topic: add entry id to post custom field en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:02:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/add-entry-id-to-post-custom-field#post-16494 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:54:27 +0000 David Smith 16494@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Daniel,</p> <p>If I understand correctly, you want to get the entry ID of the submission and store it as custom post meta on a post that is being created by the form?</p> <p>A few points of confusion for me:</p> <ol> <li>You mentioned that the custom field that you are populating with the entry ID upon submission is only visible to the admin. My assumption is that this field would still be present in the form output, simply hidden from view; however, this does not appear to be the case as I was unable to find any hidden custom post fields in your "working" form.</li> <li>I'm not familiar with anyway of specifying the retrieval of the entry ID to populate a field in the GF admin.</li> <li>By entry ID, are we both referring to the ID of the entry as stored by Gravity Forms after a successful form submission?</li> </ol> <p>I would double check your functions.php just to make sure there is not custom code that is making the magic happen for the Grant form. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/add-entry-id-to-post-custom-field#post-16447 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:44:45 +0000 Daniel Wiener 16447@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hello,<br /> This is embarrassing. A month ago I figured out how to add the entry id to a post custom field, automatically. The Custom Post Field is only seen by the admin and the entry id is entered in the custom field when the user submits the form. This has been my way of showing portions of the form on the front end. (I know there are other ways of doing that but this is a convenient way for me). </p> <p>For the life of me, I, now, cannot remember how I did this. I believe I did it from the Gravity Form UI and not by writing code, using hooks, etc. Any help or suggestions would be helpful.</p> <p>I am using the 1.5 beta. </p> <p>My method works on this page.<br /> <a href="http://www.haring.com/kh_foundation/grants/grant-application" rel="nofollow">http://www.haring.com/kh_foundation/grants/grant-application</a><br /> but doesn't work on this page<br /> <a href="http://www.haring.com/kh_foundation/authentication/authentication-form" rel="nofollow">http://www.haring.com/kh_foundation/authentication/authentication-form</a><br /> but you need to fill out this form to get there:<br /> <a href="http://www.haring.com/kh_foundation/authentication/terms-and-conditions" rel="nofollow">http://www.haring.com/kh_foundation/authentication/terms-and-conditions</a></p> <p>Thanks. </p> <p>Daniel Wiener </p>