Form submission & Buddypress

I have changed to embedding a function directly to the group screen page with basic functionality.
Updated GF to 1.6 RC

But these changes still produce no form submission.

Certainly: it's under a coming soon wrapper at the moment but I can disable that for a while.

Link is:
http://sporthaq.com/groups/all-saints-school/blog/create

In that create page I have simply dropped
<?php gravity_form(4, true, true, false, '', false); ?>

For testing, the plugin that links blogs to categories in the groups runs a function to enable front end posting hence it's create page and needs the function set:

add_action('bcg_post_form', 'rh_student_form',10,2);
function rh_student_form($cats,$url){
//$cats is arra of category ids associated with this group
//url is the url of current page
//echo do_shortcode('[gravityform id=4 name=wppost title=false description=false ajax=false]');
//gravity_form(4, true, true, false, '', false);
}
?>

But this aspect I'm not tackling until I can get basic submission working.

Sorry my bad,

have to give you an admin account as the group blog plugin appears to be restricting the create page or roles are set up badly.

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That's great yes it does allow the form submission to pass through from that page correctly, many thanks for that. The page slightly oddly refreshes back to the members top level directory which I'll have to look into.

I'm going to try and push the form through the plugin function I showed above, although I'm not expecting huge success there partly as there isn't any real documentation as to how that part of the plugin is functioning.

The only real reason I can see for the function is to pass through the array of categories selected in that respect I only really need to pass through one category which needs to ID the group that I can do simply by accessing the group object and getting the group slug and using that as the post category if necessary rather than an array of selected categories, but how do I pass a category through to the GF form prior to submission? I'm guessing I need to do this via the form settings page by allowing Allow field to be populated dynamically and adding a variable - does GF then simply collect any data from a variable if I create it on the page?

Hi Fozzybear,

I'm assuming the $group object might be global. If so, you can likely declare the global from within the gform_field_value hook and populate the field that way. Here is more information on dynamic population via hooks:

http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Using_Dynamic_Population#Hooks

I apologise for bringing this back up but I'm getting stumped on trying to pass a value to the form despite trying a few variations,

Currently this is the working form:
primary page runs this function:
bcg_get_post_form(bp_get_group_id());

it grabs the function in functions.php:

function rh_student_form($cats,$url){

global $group_slug;
echo $group_slug; // this variable is valid

//$cats is arra of category ids associated with this group
//url is the url of current page

gravity_form(4, true, true, false, '', false);
}

In this sense the form works fine -ish it's displayed and will submit albeit re-freshing back to the members directory but this I think is an issue with the complicated way BP creates urls and root components.

What I can't work out is how to pass $group_slug to the GF form category field to pre-populate it or simply populate it as group_slug is dependent on the group id being viewed at that time so isn't fixed. I tried the suggestion earlier and have set the form to take a parameter tried as '$group_slug' & 'group_slug'

The snippet I'm working with is:

add_filter("gform_field_value_category", "add_field_value");
function add_field_value($group_slug){

    return $group_slug;
}

This I have tried in functions.php and actually within the function above 'rh_student_form'

But no joy. I realise that what I have doesn't remotely feel like it ought to work but even checking a few other posts where you mention 'create_function'? in the add_action I'm failing to see how to accomplish this or really what to try next.

Help / further guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Carl, appreciate it.

Ah I had tried the above but I hadn't set the form dynamic parameter to 'category' I had assumed that this would be 'group_slug' so I will give that a try the only other thing that does confuse me is where this function should run inside of the other plugins function that holds the GF form or outside that function both positions being in functions.php but I guess that's one of those trial and error questions :)

Thanks for the help, I shall report back on success or fail.

I have now created a test page and embedded the form on this (did this originally but not with later changes) to remove the BP aspect altogether.

I can see that the value is being passed to the field that I have set as a simple string but I don't see how the form control as any relationship to a WP post category or how the form action is being constructed this simple page name / slug is returning the user to the BP members directory instead of simply doing a '/'

<form id="gform_4" action="/test-gf-post-page/" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
<div class="gform_heading">
<div class="gform_body">
<ul id="gform_fields_4" class="gform_fields top_label description_below">
<li id="field_4_1" class="gfield">
<li id="field_4_2" class="gfield">
<li id="field_4_5" class="gfield">
<label class="gfield_label" for="input_4_5">Post Tags</label>
<div class="ginput_container">
</li>
<li id="field_4_6" class="gfield field_admin_only">
<input id="input_4_6" class="gform_hidden" type="hidden" value="All Saints School" name="input_6">
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="gform_footer top_label">

I set the 'Post Category' to admin only for this test but either way I appear to get same results?

Hi Fozzybear,

So the category ID is populating the field specified correctly; however, the created post is not automatically assigned that category?