Only the fields in the Post Fields toolbox create post data. So selecting the Checkbox field from Standard Fields is not going to have any post related options such as the custom field name.
The Post Custom Field in Gravity Forms v1.5 does not support Checkboxes as a field type. This is primarily due to the fact Custom Fields are single value fields. They consist of a Name and a Value. They don't consist of a Name and multiple Values.
HOWEVER Gravity Forms v1.6, which is available as a beta test release, does add Checkboxes as a field type option on the Post Custom Field. For each checkbox selected it creates a new custom field. So it creates multiple custom field records all using the same custom field name.
This means that when utilizing a custom field like this, with multiple custom fields using the same name, you need to know how to display this properly on the front end of your site if you are displaying custom fields in your theme. Your theme needs to get all of them and loop through them to output the values.
Posted 12 years ago on Friday September 23, 2011 |
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