Gravity Support Forums Topic: Form field is saved as ID in meta field.

Gravity Support Forums Topic: Form field is saved as ID in meta field. https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-field-is-saved-as-id-in-meta-field Gravity Support Forums Topic: Form field is saved as ID in meta field. en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:12:24 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 <![CDATA[Search]]> q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php David Peralty on "Form field is saved as ID in meta field." https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-field-is-saved-as-id-in-meta-field#post-375645 Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:59:31 +0000 David Peralty 375645@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ That might be a custom post types issue. I'm not certain. But because you have value selected as active, it is going to use the value rather than the label for the different selections as that is what is seen as "being needed" by many parts of Gravity Forms. In your User Meta, you have school and then Instelling and so it will take the value not the label from Instelling and save it. sirtimo on "Form field is saved as ID in meta field." https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-field-is-saved-as-id-in-meta-field#post-375640 Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:52:33 +0000 sirtimo 375640@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ yeah ofcourse, It's about the field 'instelling', as you see it's being populated with the gravity forms + custom post types plugin, and you see all the values, and the names. Everywhere (form emails and the saved info in the backend, i see the name displayed. But what's being saved in the database for the metafield, is the value. It's very strange. David Peralty on "Form field is saved as ID in meta field." https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-field-is-saved-as-id-in-meta-field#post-375625 Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:46:09 +0000 David Peralty 375625@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Can you show us the form and give more information on what you are doing? Are you using merge tags or drop down selections when building this out? All my best! sirtimo on "Form field is saved as ID in meta field." https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-field-is-saved-as-id-in-meta-field#post-375587 Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:04:25 +0000 sirtimo 375587@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Hello, I'm using the user registration add-on to create new users, and i'm also saving some form fields as custom meta fields in the user table. On of the form fields, is a populated drop down menu, with the names of a custom post type. The names of the post type show nicely in the pulldown menu. When submitting the form, the name of the post type is nicely saved in the form; i can see that in the email, and i can see that in the form admin. Now, what ends up as a meta field value in my user table, isn't the name of that post type, but it's ID. So there's numbers being saved. I can't wrap my head around it, since it was working before one of the latest gravity forms updates. So, everywhere, the name of the ID is being saved, except for my meta field, there it's a post idea. Is this a known issue? I