Adding a Views and Types template when using Gravity Forms to submit a post

Thanks for such a great plugin, love it!

I also love Views and Types (http://wp-types.com/)

I am using Gravity Forms to let advertisers create a custom post type (advertisement) on my site. I have set up a view template with views and types to control how these individual posts are displayed.

Can anyone suggest a way of setting the custom post type submitted through a gravity form to automatically use this template created with views and types?

My current thinking is that this isn't possible, so I'm planning to set all submitted posts to pending, then manually assigning the template myself via the admin dashboard before publishing. Obviously this is not ideal as it could be tens or hundreds of posts a day.

Thanks for your help,
Lee

I'll just note that I am attempting a rather complicated site where Gravity Forms is used to populated dozens of custom fields and create several different custom post types on form submission. All of these Post types and fields will be controlled by the Types and Views plugins. So if I learn any tricks about integrating the 2 with GForms I'll try to post later. It seems as though Types and Views are also very good plugins (as of course GForms is too).

I forgot to post here after encountering this myself. As others have found, setting the view template in the normal way apparently doesn't work, but my solution was a bit different.

Rather than setting the _views_template when creating or updating the post, I'm setting it with a filter when displaying a particular post type. So my code doesn't actually affect Gravity Forms at all. It seems like this has a few advantages for my particular situation. It doesn't matter which form created the post (in case you want to have totally different forms that create the same post type, this code will apply to all of them), and you can create a form that creates posts of multiple different post types on one form submission ( in that case you just need to have one instance of this filter for each post type).

Disclaimer: I'm not a php expert, so maybe I don't grasp all the nuances and implications of the different approaches. There may be advantages to the other approach or disadvantages to mine that I haven't noticed. I arrived at my approach by working through the Types and Views forums and my excerpt works like a charm on my site.

Thanks for posting theslink2000 - it's nice to see another approach.

Here's my code:

//Set Views Template Custom Post Type Created by GF on the Front End
add_filter('get_post_metadata', 'meter_template_filter', 1, 4);
function meter_template_filter($dummy, $post_id, $meta_key, $single) {
if ($meta_key == '_views_template') {
if (is_singular('your-custom-post-type-slug')) {
return 267; //replace 267 with the id of your views template
}
}
return null;
}