seemsse
Member
I have setup a form to create a post and I have a dropdown of selected categories. I was testing the form and I did not fill out one of the required text fields. After receiving the validation messages I noticed that my category dropdown reset back to the first category listed. This is a problem since the category dropdown did not receive a validation message, many people will fill in the fields they missed and hit submit without checking the category again.
Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks,
It's going to depend on how you are pre-populating the field.
Since you, and not Gravity Forms, are pre-populating the field... when validation happens it doesn't know that the field needs to be pre-populated. so depending on how you are doing it, it's not going to happen.
What method are you using to pre-populate the field?
Erwin van den Boogaard
Member
In my case it's via Jan Egbert's suggestion described here:
http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text
add_filter( 'gform_pre_render_7', 'populate_dropdown' );
function populate_dropdown($form) {
[bunch of code]
}But note that it does populate. It's the selected value that gets reset.
It looks like this is a bug with the Post Category field. We'll get this resolved in the next release. Thanks!