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Adding new custom field type

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  1. jorgep
    Member

    I've been playing with the hooks all night, but I still can't find a way to create a custom field the way I want.

    Technical question:
    I'm using gform_add_field_buttons to add a new button, which has onclick = "StartAddField('vehicleyear')". When I click on the new button, it adds the field but I can't edit it. Is there a way to create a pre-propulated select field?

    Background:
    I'm setting up a insurance quote form for my client, and they want the vehicle year and model to be pulled form somewhere else. I also want to make it extremely easy for them to customize the form.

    My plan was to create a new button group called "Insurance Fields" and add the two buttons there for year and model. When they click on the button, it'd create a select type with everything pre-populated so they don't have to touch anything else.

    So far I've got the new button groups setup but I'm having problems creating the fields.

    Do you have an example/demo that explain how to use the hooks to get the result that I'm looking for?

    Thanks!

    Posted 13 years ago on Thursday June 9, 2011 | Permalink

  2. jorgep
    Member

    Here's the code for what I'm trying to do... https://gist.github.com/1016695

    Posted 13 years ago on Thursday June 9, 2011 | Permalink

  3. Alex Cancado
    Administrator

    You are pretty close. The next step is to add the code to create the pre-populated drop down inside the ih_gform_field_input() function. That function should return the string containing the <select> input populated with all years you want to be displayed.

    Posted 13 years ago on Friday June 10, 2011 | Permalink