https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populate-dropdown-with-custom-fields Gravity Support Forums Topic: Dynamically populate dropdown with custom fields? en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:43:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populate-dropdown-with-custom-fields#post-55637 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:48:55 +0000 Web Developer 55637@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I was just trying to demonstrate that you need to pre-populate drop downs.</p> <p>I'm using this with MySQL calls to populate the drop downs. You could use that or a switch in the 'else' area that builds the list from, say "get_the_ID()". </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populate-dropdown-with-custom-fields#post-55604 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:34:38 +0000 Shaun 55604@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks for your reply, but this is no good for me.</p> <p>As I said above, the form appears on every produce page, but every product has different colours available. If I did your method, it would show options for all the colours on all the products. I need it to dynamically populate the drop-down with only the colours available for the product the person is looking at. These are stored in custom fields. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populate-dropdown-with-custom-fields#post-55488 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:16:48 +0000 Web Developer 55488@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I just started using Gravity Forms and wanted to populate a drop down with a dynamic list of employees who were working at the time the form was submitted. I was running into the same problem as you when I found what needs to be done: you have to pre-populate the form.</p> <p>In the following example, replace #FORM_ID# with the form's ID. Also, in the drop down, make sure you set the #CSS_CLASS# to a value in the Advanced &gt; Css Class Name settings and edit the following code, replacing it to match what you put on your Gravity Form settings.</p> <pre><code>add_filter(&#39;gform_pre_render_#FORM_ID#&#39;, &#39;my_populate_colors&#39;); function my_populate_colors($form) { foreach($form[&#39;fields&#39;] as &amp;$field): if($field[&#39;type&#39;] != &#39;select&#39; || strpos($field[&#39;cssClass&#39;], &#39;#CSS_NAME#&#39;) === false): continue; else: $choices = array(); $choices[] = array(&#39;text&#39; =&gt; &#39;Colour name&#39;, &#39;value&#39; =&gt; &#39;colour name&#39;); $choices[] = array(&#39;text&#39; =&gt; &#39;Colour name 2&#39;, &#39;value&#39; =&gt; &#39;colour name 2&#39;); $field[&#39;choices&#39;] = $choices; endif; endforeach; return $form; }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populate-dropdown-with-custom-fields#post-54075 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:04:39 +0000 Shaun 54075@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have an enquiry form that appears on every 'product page' which dynamically populates a text box with the product name, so far so good, but I'd like to add a dynamic drop-down to let the user pick a colour from the available colours.</p> <p>Colours are stored in an array in a custom field, but I can't figure out how to use this custom field to populate a drop-down. Using the same code for the text field but using an array does not seem to work. Please see my code below and let me know where I am going wrong?</p> <pre><code>add_filter(&quot;gform_field_value_colour&quot;, &quot;populate_list&quot;); function populate_list($value){ $choices[] = array(array(&#39;text&#39; =&gt; &#39;Colour name&#39;, &#39;value&#39; =&gt; &#39;colour name&#39;)); $choices[] = array(array(&#39;text&#39; =&gt; &#39;Colour name 2&#39;, &#39;value&#39; =&gt; &#39;colour name 2&#39;)); return $choices; }</code></pre> <p>Regards<br /> Shaun </p>