Link form responses to particular (custom) posts

So you want to have Posts that are associated with another Post? You can do this but you would have to store the Post ID as post meta on the new Posts that are created... which would associate the new Post with the Post they were submitted from.

You would then have to write a custom loop to pull in and display posts with that post id stored in custom meta. It is doable but obviously will require customizations to your theme to display these associated posts.

- Add a Post Custom Field to your form

- Edit the Post Custom Field and give it a Field Label (ex. Associated Post)

- For Custom Field Name Select NEW and give it a Custom Field Name (ex. associated_post_id). The custom field name is the meta key, so no spaces.

- Select the Advanced Tab

- In the Default Value select "Embed Post/Page ID" which will insert this into the Default Value: {embed_post:ID}

- Set the Visibility to "Admin Only"

This should now create a field that will store the post ID of the post the form was submitted from as post meta with the key you configured in the custom field name. You can then write a WordPress loop to display all posts with that custom field key that have a value equal to the post id for the post that is being displayed.

You can't copy-n-paste the form source code. It won't work. The form has to be output by the shortcode or function call. You can't just copy-n-paste the form HTML itself. So if that is what you are doing, that is why it's not formatting correctly. So you have to use the shortcode, or the function call. If you use the function call, you may have to manually enqueue the necessary scripts. The shortcode should do this automatically if executed within a loop.

To answer your questions above, yes these should be possible if you set it up correctly.

Shortcode's are only executed when they are used in the post body content. They aren't parsed if you place them directly in your PHP template files. They are only parsed if they are in the Post Content themselves. So that is why it isn't being parsed. That shortcode needs to go in the content of the post that is being displayed.

If you want to display a form via PHP in your theme template files you have to use the function call.

Documentation for both can be found here:

http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Embedding_A_Form

@macnet You need to configure the Notifications for that form. A and B are both possible with the tools available when configuring your Notifications.