https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/merge-tag-as-a-default-value-for-admin-only-field Gravity Support Forums Topic: Merge Tag as a default value for Admin Only field? en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:26:24 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/merge-tag-as-a-default-value-for-admin-only-field#post-193068 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:51:39 +0000 David Peralty 193068@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Try changing the dot to an underscore.<br /> input_1_3 and input_1_6 </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/merge-tag-as-a-default-value-for-admin-only-field#post-193064 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:49:18 +0000 sundaramdesign 193064@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>It was input_1.3 &amp; input_1.6 so I guess:</p> <p>$_POST["input_1.3"] ." ". $_POST["input_1.6"]</p> <p>should be working. Alas, it is not.</p> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> Found the solution: I used "input_1_3" instead of input_1.3 and it worked.</p> <p><strong>Consider this issue solved. Thank you for all your help!</strong> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/merge-tag-as-a-default-value-for-admin-only-field#post-193060 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:42:09 +0000 David Peralty 193060@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>View source the form HTML and check what designation it is given there, as it might be different from them merge tags. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/merge-tag-as-a-default-value-for-admin-only-field#post-193056 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:34:30 +0000 sundaramdesign 193056@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>So close, that got me 50% there! My last hurdle is the name field. I used the advanced field "Name" (format: normal). And I can't get the value to output. I've tried:</p> <p><code>$_POST[&quot;input_1&quot;]</code></p> <p>and</p> <p><code>$_POST[&quot;input_1.1&quot;] .&quot; &quot;. $_POST[&quot;input_1.2&quot;]</code></p> <p>and</p> <p><code>$_POST[&quot;input_1.3&quot;] .&quot; &quot;. $_POST[&quot;input_1.6&quot;]</code><br /> (this is the designation for the first/last name fields in the merge tag from the notification section)</p> <p>Is there a different designation for the multi-field advanced fields? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/merge-tag-as-a-default-value-for-admin-only-field#post-193017 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:10:57 +0000 David Peralty 193017@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You can't use merge tags in PHP. You'll have to pull field values and then push field values. Have a look at the details here as well to help: <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_validation" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_validation</a></p> <p>So you'll want something like:<br /> $_POST["input_3"] = $_POST["input_4"] ." ". $_POST["input_5"] ." - ". $_POST["input_6"];<br /> To get your First Name Last Name - Title that you wanted in your original post. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/merge-tag-as-a-default-value-for-admin-only-field#post-192998 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:01:04 +0000 sundaramdesign 192998@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>David, I am trying the hooks method and it seems to work, only not with merge tags. I tried generating regular text and that worked, so I tried a custom merge tag from my form, and that only spit back out the merge tag code. So I tried a standard merge tag and that also just generated the code verbatim in my results rather than the value for that field like I want.</p> <p>Here is what I am trying:</p> <pre><code>add_action(&quot;gform_pre_submission_2&quot;, &quot;pre_submission_handler&quot;); function pre_submission_handler($form){ $_POST[&quot;input_3&quot;] = &quot;{date_mdy}&quot;; }</code></pre> <p>And the results are simply the merge tag "{date_mdy}" rather than the value I want to show up (in this case, the date). Is there a filter I need to use to tell the function to recognize those characters as a merge tag instead of plain text? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/merge-tag-as-a-default-value-for-admin-only-field#post-192899 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:09:30 +0000 sundaramdesign 192899@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks, Chris &amp; David! This gives me some good options to find the solution I need. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/merge-tag-as-a-default-value-for-admin-only-field#post-192845 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:27:39 +0000 David Peralty 192845@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You could then also use one of our pre-submission hooks to copy the values from the other fields on submit, merge them the way you want, and stuff them into another field. gform_pre_submission</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_pre_submission" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_pre_submission</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/merge-tag-as-a-default-value-for-admin-only-field#post-192837 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:21:19 +0000 sundaramdesign 192837@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'll try the jQuery solution, thank you. I'm not trying to populate the value before the form is submitted however, I just want the merge tag combo to show up in submitted results. (The data should be there for them to display after the submit button is pressed, right?) </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/merge-tag-as-a-default-value-for-admin-only-field#post-191972 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:01:10 +0000 Chris Hajer 191972@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The merge tags are parsed when the form is rendered. However, those form values have not yet been entered. How would that field be populated with a default value for a field which does not yet have any data entered in it?</p> <p>If you want to copy data from one field to another after it is entered in your form (from an earlier field in the form to a later field) you can use jQuery, like this: <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/passing-values-on-multipage-form#post-179789" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/passing-values-on-multipage-form#post-179789</a> </p>