https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/help-pre-populating-a-drop-down Gravity Support Forums Topic: Help pre-populating a drop down en-US Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:25:49 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/help-pre-populating-a-drop-down#post-183071 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:10:27 +0000 Chris Hajer 183071@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I don't know of any documentation for those fields types. I did look through the source and found all these types though:</p> <ul> <li>select</li> <li>radio</li> <li>text</li> <li>calculation</li> <li>textbox</li> <li>website</li> <li>phone</li> <li>email</li> <li>list</li> <li>singleproduct</li> </ul> <p>However, I'm not sure if that will help you. Can you post all the code you are using to populate the drop down and we'll take a look at it and see if we can spot a problem. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/help-pre-populating-a-drop-down#post-179847 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:26:40 +0000 VFHwebdev 179847@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Sorry, same project but different issues. </p> <p>In this case a custom field type with a class populate-posts, set to behave as a drop down isn't recognized by the conditional:</p> <p>if($field['type'] != 'select' || strpos($field['cssClass'], 'populate-posts') === false)</p> <p>I'm guessing the problem is the field type. I was able to make it work by removing that part. </p> <p>if(strpos($field['cssClass'], 'populate-posts') === false)</p> <p>This is OK for me because there's only one field with a populate-posts class in my form. But it seems like custom field types set to be select boxes should behave like select boxes.</p> <p>And I can't find any documentation on the possible vaules for field type. Is a custom field a type of 'custom'?</p> <p>Thanks. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/help-pre-populating-a-drop-down#post-179783 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:07:24 +0000 Chris Hajer 179783@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Is this topic related to your other one?<br /> <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/drop-down-of-custom-posts-stored-as-custom-field" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/drop-down-of-custom-posts-stored-as-custom-field</a></p> <p>Can we focus the support on one topic or the other, or are the issues unrelated? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/help-pre-populating-a-drop-down#post-176971 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:38:28 +0000 VFHwebdev 176971@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I think I figured out what I was doing wrong. I was using a gravity form field that's a 'Post Custom Field' set to a field type of 'Drop Down'. </p> <p>This is apparently does function the same as a regular drop down and isn't caught by the conditional in the code sample:</p> <p>if($field['type'] != 'select' || strpos($field['cssClass'], 'populate-posts') === false)</p> <p>So is there documentation somewhere of the possible values for $field['type'] ? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/help-pre-populating-a-drop-down#post-176960 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:20:33 +0000 VFHwebdev 176960@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm trying to follow this example from the documentation about how to pre-populate a drop down menu (<a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Dynamically_Populating_Drop_Down_Fields)" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Dynamically_Populating_Drop_Down_Fields)</a>.</p> <p>It's not working and I can't figure out why. I've added the code example to my functions.php file and I've updated the code with the id of my form as instructed. </p> <p>It doesn't mention it directly in the documentation, but I assume I'm also supposed to add the class 'populate-posts' to the drop down item I want to pre-populate.</p> <p>I've done all this and it isn't working. Eventually I want to tweak the example a little, but first I'm just trying to reproduce it.</p> <p>Am I missing a step here? </p>