https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/displaying-entry-data-in-form Gravity Support Forums Topic: Displaying entry data in form en-US Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:07:52 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/displaying-entry-data-in-form#post-56940 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:19:42 +0000 schnettker 56940@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have the same problem like Jennifer but the code snippet <a href="http://pastie.org/1744975" rel="nofollow">http://pastie.org/1744975</a> is offline. Can you upload it on pastebin please? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/displaying-entry-data-in-form#post-46408 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:02:53 +0000 sascha 46408@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Listening in... </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/displaying-entry-data-in-form#post-44912 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:53:54 +0000 bamity 44912@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I've gotten this working for a form so that I can restore a form and allow the user to edit it using the lead_id as a parameter in the URL. My form has multiple pages, however, and I'd like to allow the user to save it on any page, as opposed to just the final page. </p> <p>The method suggested above deletes the previous lead, rather than simply updating it. Why? How would one update the original lead instead - in order to maintain the same lead ID? </p> <p>I want to do this so that I can add in auto-save functionality on a regular interval and/or add a button to each page of the form to "save" the data to the db. With the delete method, every time a user would try to save, the url parameter would need to be updated to the new lead id and I'd be needlessly destroying and creating db records.</p> <p>Also, it has been suggested in the past on this forum, to implement auto-save functionality by saving the data in a cookie on the users computer via a jQuery plugin. I don't want to do it this way for various reasons - mostly shared computers/user accounts and sensitive data, but also multiple computers, different locations, etc.</p> <p>Any suggestions on how to tackle this one? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/displaying-entry-data-in-form#post-40028 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:42:51 +0000 JimBurke 40028@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi,<br /> I have very similar problem. I want to prepopulate a form with data I've pulled back from the database. This works fine except the final rendering.<br /> The problem is that the form does not show the populated data.<br /> In the pre-render function, I assign values and these seem to be fine - I used echo statements to verify this.<br /> I simplified the problem so that if I do a direct string assignment to a text field :-<br /> $form["fields"][ID_NAME]['defaultValue'] = "hello there !" ;<br /> ... nothing appears on the rendered form in the field indexed by ID_NAME.</p> <p>Any ideas ? Am I doing something silly ? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/displaying-entry-data-in-form#post-25149 Mon, 09 May 2011 23:26:47 +0000 radioswan 25149@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Did anyone have any luck with this? It's a bit beyond my skillset unfortunately, it would be great if a plugin was available as I would be willing to pay for this feature. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/displaying-entry-data-in-form#post-24646 Mon, 02 May 2011 12:43:28 +0000 Carl Hancock 24646@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>To dynamically populate a field using PHP you need to set that field so it can be dynamically populated (edit the field, select advanced tab, check the "allow field to be populated dynamically" checkbox and give it a unique parameter name). You then use this parameter name with the gform_field_value hook to populate it dynamically.</p> <p>The hook you use is documented here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_field_value_$parameter_name" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_field_value_$parameter_name</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/displaying-entry-data-in-form#post-24570 Sat, 30 Apr 2011 03:38:12 +0000 tobinlehman 24570@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Oops, can't edit that last post, pastie: <a href="http://pastie.org/1849344" rel="nofollow">http://pastie.org/1849344</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/displaying-entry-data-in-form#post-24560 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:32:07 +0000 tobinlehman 24560@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks Carl. I have the following based on the samples earlier in this thread, in functions.php.<br /> &lt;script src='http://pastie.org/1849344.js'&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> <p>I see the values coming out of $entries properly but I can't seem to assign the value as the default value to the fields before rendering the form. I'm trying to pre-populate the form from a lead so that it's already pre-populated with data we already have at form render time. Thank you! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/displaying-entry-data-in-form#post-24500 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:55:03 +0000 Carl Hancock 24500@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We'd have to see all of your code to see what you are doing, that snippet isn't enough to go on because we don't know what you are trying to do. I suggest posting more of the code snippet to <a href="http://pastie.org" rel="nofollow">http://pastie.org</a> and then describe what you are trying to do and include a link to your code on <a href="http://pastie.org" rel="nofollow">http://pastie.org</a> so we can take a look. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/displaying-entry-data-in-form#post-24477 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:18:49 +0000 tobinlehman 24477@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We have this working for the most part but when setting the value, for example:<br /> <pre><code>$field[&#39;value&#39;] = &#39;test&#39;; print_r($field[&#39;value&#39;]);</code></pre> <p>I get "test" as the value but it doesn't show it in the rendered form. </p>