Dynamically populate checkboxes

• I set up my checkbox field values like so: http://grab.by/9bu8
• I set up my checkbox dynamic population option like so: http://grab.by/9bua (under advanced tab)
• I set up a little code snippet that uses the gform_field_value_*parameter* hook to pre-populate the correct checkbox: http://pastie.org/1612873

Let me know if you have any questions. :)

Actually put that right in your functions.php file. Let me know if you have any other questions. :)

a question related to this topic, i have a page with 4 links.

lets say when the first link is click, it will be redirected to page where the form is, and 1 out of 4 checkbox should be selected..

now, if i click the 2nd link, it will be redirected to page where the form is, and 2 out of 4 checkbox should be selected.. and so on and so forth..

how can i do that?

I have the same issue as mobitinker.
I am trying to populate dropdowns with - for testing purposes - just the string "boom".

i assigned the parameter language_populate to my drop down field (under "populate this dynamically"), and defined following function in my functions.php:

<?php
add_action('gform_field_value_language_populate', 'get_language_populate');
function get_language_populate($value){
    return 'boom!';
}
?>

though, I am experiencing the same problem as mobitinker:
single lines of text get populated normally, but my drop-down field keeps the default values (first choice, second choice, etc) and is not getting populated.

any ideas why this is happening?

thanks ahead, regards,

kubante

Hi David,
thanks for your Documentation Link. Blame on my I didn't have a look there first.

After some tries, i could successfully dynamically populate my drop-down. I am struggling with the query of the posts though. After a few hours of tries I decided to come back to you, maybe you have an idea.

I am using This as reference, for populating my dropdown.

So far so good, my titles from custom_posts show up. I am using post_type=myCustomPostType for this. I would now like to filter the titles, to only those of a certain taxonomy. For this I use the function get_posts like this:

[php]
$posts = get_posts('taxonomy=myTaxonomy&tag_ID=22&post_type=myCustomPostType');

Unfortunately, this always queries all of the custom posts, and not only those in the taxonomy i would like. The filter doesn't apply.

I also tried the variant with the building of the args array:

$args = array(

	'post_type' => 'myCustomPostType',
	'tag_ID' => '22',
	'post_status' => 'publish'
);

i even tried the 'suppress_filters' => false, argument, coz i had read about it in connection to the get_posts() function. In addition, i tried swapping get_posts() with query_posts(). Still no Luck .
any ideas why my filters are not being applied?

Thanks ahead and kind regards,

kubante

Hi Chris,

thanks for your answer. Yes it works. I am able to filter one post title only with the slug filtering.

How can I now filter everything from one taxonomy only? or as in my case, even from one taxonomy entry (e.g. "german") ? I have a taxonomy called languages, filled with languages (German, English, etc). I would like to filter e.g. only "german titles".

I had another few tries with the example underneath (Custom Post Type Category (Taxonomy) ), but no luck... All post titles come up unfiltered. This is driving me crazy ! :)

$args=array(

	'numberposts' => 8,
	'orderby' => 'rand',
  	'post_type' => 'myCustomPostType',
  	'myCustomPostType_category' => 'Languages' ,
  	'post_status' => 'publish'

);

any other ideas? Help totally appreciated!! :)

Thanks !

kubante

Solved!!!!

Thanks to

http://return-true.com/2008/12/using-wp_query-to-make-custom-queries-within-wordpress-templates/

The solution is to have following little switches:

$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query = null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query($args);
$temp_posts = $posts;
$posts = null;
$posts = $wp_query->posts;

you can then use any tags to filter or do whatever you want!! (check my previous posts, or answer this post if you want the complete code, i will paste it!)

thanks god. Love you guys.

cu,

kubante