https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/automatically-submit-form-to-post-author Gravity Support Forums Topic: Automatically Submit Form to Post Author en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:34:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/automatically-submit-form-to-post-author#post-44624 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:38:39 +0000 Chris Hajer 44624@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thank you for posting that code Nathan. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/automatically-submit-form-to-post-author#post-44555 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:46:57 +0000 clicknathan 44555@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Just in case anyone's interested in this, I've figured out how to have a form automatically submit to the author of the post the page appears on.</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $author_email_addy = get_the_author_meta( &#39;user_email&#39; ); gravity_form( 3, $display_title=false, $display_description=true, $display_inactive=false, $field_values = array( &#39;author_email&#39;=&gt; $author_email_addy ), $ajax=true ); ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>The<code>3</code> is the ID of the form, FYI, and I'm doing this all via a <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Embedding_A_Form#Function_Call" rel="nofollow">function call</a>, not using the shortcode / WP Post Editor. </p> <p>Note the <code>&#39;author_email&#39;=&gt; $author_email_addy</code>, this is the important part.</p> <ol> <li>Add an <code>Email</code> field (from the Advanced Fields in the Form Editor) to your form.</li> <li>Editing that field, click the Advanced tab</li> <li>Click Allow Field to be Populated Dynamically, and enter <code>author_email</code> as the value.</li> <li>Save the form and go to Notifications</li> <li>Scroll down and tick the box Notification to Users</li> <li>In the Send To: field, choose the Email field from step 1 above</li> </ol> <p>That's it! </p>