I'm trying to set up a form for Editor users to create entries and assign them to a certain author, in front-end view.
I do not know if it can be done with GF, as I cannot specify an input value for post author. Could you point me in the right direction?
I think this documentation will help:
http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Dynamically_Populating_Drop_Down_Fields
That example shows how to dynamically populate a drop down with post titles. You will need to change the code to retrieve authors.
You can also read related posts:
http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/search.php?q=Dynamically_Populating_Drop_Down_Fields
Chris, this helped a lot. However, I'm unable to achieve what I need.
I'm new to GF so bear with me
I'm working with GF and this two plugins:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-update-post/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-custom-post-types/
I set up a form with some custom fields. My goal is for an editor user to create/edit some cutom posts, and assigning it to a diferent Author user.
I can create and edit post easily, but I'm not able to change the post author value on submit. I tried to set useCurrentUserAsAuthor as 0, and postAuthor with the ID of a selected user, but it always keep the original user as Author.
Maybe there is a better way to acomplish this?
You can change the author of a post after the form is submitted by using the gform_after_submission hook. http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_after_submission
The example there shows updating the post content, but you can update the post author in the same manner.
