https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/assigning-a-submission-to-an-author-that-already-exists Gravity Support Forums Topic: Assigning a submission to an author that already exists. en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:08:23 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/assigning-a-submission-to-an-author-that-already-exists#post-68092 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:46:36 +0000 David Peralty 68092@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Let us know if any other issues come up. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/assigning-a-submission-to-an-author-that-already-exists#post-68058 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:22:09 +0000 astronauts 68058@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Apparently I missed the email that notified me of your reply - but that's great, thanks! I'll try to make it work. Many thanks!</p> <p>Best,<br /> -Pim </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/assigning-a-submission-to-an-author-that-already-exists#post-67109 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:59:40 +0000 David Smith 67109@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Astronauts,</p> <p>You can use the <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_after_submission" rel="nofollow">gform_after_submission</a> hook to fire some functionality after the entry has been completely submitted and post created. You can then use the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_user_by" rel="nofollow">get_user_by()</a> to pass the submitted email. If it returns a valid user, you can then assign that user ID to as the post author via the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_update_post" rel="nofollow">wp_update_post()</a> function.</p> <p>Some psuedo code to get you started:</p> <pre><code>[php] // update &quot;1&quot; to your form ID add_action(&#39;gform_after_submission_1&#39;, &#39;maybe_attribute_author&#39;); function maybe_attribute_author($entry) { $author = get_user_by(&quot;email&quot;, $entry[&#39;3&#39;]); // update the &quot;3&quot; to the ID of your form&#39;s email field if(!$author) return; $post = array(); $post[&#39;ID&#39;] = $entry[&#39;post_id&#39;]; $post[&#39;post_author&#39;] = $author-&gt;ID; wp_update_post($post); }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/assigning-a-submission-to-an-author-that-already-exists#post-66614 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:31:37 +0000 astronauts 66614@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks for your response! </p> <p>Yes, that is correct. </p> <p>- Users fill out a front-end form that is captured as a post<br /> - Users that have filled-out the form before aren't registered anymore as they already exist in the DB<br /> - For those users, I want to grab the filled-out email@<br /> - Set the author of that submitted post to match that email@ or any other way to overwrite the standard author and set to the user that submitted the post.</p> <p>Does that clarify things? Hope so. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/assigning-a-submission-to-an-author-that-already-exists#post-66556 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:50:01 +0000 David Smith 66556@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>To be clear, you are registering the user based on their submitted email on their initial submission and assigning the created post to that user via the User Registration add-on. Now you'd like to take this a step further and on subsequent submissions, the created post should be assigned to the existing user based on the re-submitted email address. </p> <p>Is this correct? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/assigning-a-submission-to-an-author-that-already-exists#post-66266 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:27:01 +0000 astronauts 66266@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>L.S.,</p> <p>I have a problem with assigning users to a post captured via a Gravity form. The glitch is I want this to work for users that have already submitted a post and are registered at the first submit. I DO NOT want them to login. </p> <p>Some background:<br /> I'm building an internal corporate platform meant for capturing posts. To capture the posts, I'm using Gravity + UserReg add-on. I want to keep the threshold for submitting a post as low as possible, so I'm simply using a form that allows user to add a post without the hassle of registering. This is done automatically via the form without them ever knowing or receiving a password. Even more, I don't want my users to ever see -let alone login to- the WP backend.</p> <p>The glitch is users can add multiple posts. There's basically two entry conditions:<br /> (1) A user has never submitted an post before. Based on a condition ("have you submitted a post before? &gt; no") the user form is set to register the user.<br /> (2) The user submitted a post before. Based on the same condition, the user registration is skipped. </p> <p>The problem here is that in the second condition the post/post isn't assigned to the user. This is absolutely essential for the platform to work. When I remove the condition, users simply get an error message when they submit a second post because they've already been registered at the first submit (which they won't understand). </p> <p>Is it possible to assign a post to an existing user with Gravity (based on matching e-mails)? I haven't found the option. I've tried to write a plugin that uses WP's set_as_author() (take the user email, assign the post to this user), but I'm simply not skilled enough to make this work.</p> <p>Therefore:<br /> (1) Am I missing something and IS it possible to assign a post to a user that already exists with Gravity in a form (based on matching emailadress provided) OR is there another way to accomplish this with Gravity?<br /> (2) Is this a planned development?</p> <p>Hope you can help! </p>