is there anyway to pass data to a form so it populates the form. for example if i have a page that is of a car and i want to get more info about the car then clicking a get more info button which links to a page with a form on then passes the car name to the form.
is this possible?
It will be possible in the v1.2 release which will be released as a beta on Monday or Tuesday. The beta will be available for download to license holders here on GravityHelp.com once it is released. It will not be available via automatic upgrade until it is out of beta.
This will be one of many new features that will be introduced in the v1.2 release.
Yes you can do this with 1.2 You can either pass data to a field using the query string, hook, shortcode or function call.
Look at the "Dynamic Field Population" section and video on this post:
thanks carl ill check that out. what would be good for a future release is to be able to put in the edit mode something like {the_title} into the field you want populated with the page title for example. then the form can be on the page and be automatically populated with that data
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Member
I am searching for way to insert the post title to the data field.
I am not still understand how to do it. I have been watching the video. I understand that I can pass variable using http://mydomain.com/page/?id=adada. But still not understand how to pass post title to the data field.
Please help.
You will need to write a little bit of PHP to do that. The following should help you. (The assumption is that the form is embeded in the post you would like to get the title from)
1- Add the Post Title field to your form
a- Allow it to be populated dynamically (advanced tab)
b- Type "posttitle" in the "parameter name" text field
2- Add the following code snippet to your template's function.php file
add_filter("gform_field_value_posttitle", "populate_post_title");
function populate_post_title(){
global $post;
return $post->post_title);
}
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WIll try it
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/domain/public_html/wp-content/themes/mythemes/functions.php on line 48
It should be
add_filter('gform_field_value_posttitle', 'populate_post_title');
function populate_post_title(){
global $post;
return ($post->post_title);
}
Cool, good to hear you got it working!
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Member
Now that I have added title to the data field. How do I add 'custom fields' in post to the data field in gravity forms.
For example, when I'm creating new post, I have set 'custom fields' price in the post. How do I add 'price' field to the data field in gravity forms?
Please help. Let me know.
Thanks
alexinfiniti
Member
I want a member of my site to login, and once they visit the contact form i want the fields to automatically populate themselves using the information in their profile. These are the same fields in all wordpress signup pages. Can someone help me out?
:D
Next year,
Use the following code snipped to populate a field with a post custom field
add_filter('gform_field_value_postcustom', 'populate_postcustom');
function populate_postcustom(){
global $post;
return get_post_meta($post->ID, "my_custom_field", true);
}
Note: Replace "my_custom_field" with your custom field name and "postcustom" with your field's parameter name
alexinfiniti,
I will give you instructions to populate a field with the WP username.
You will need to repeat it for each field you want to populate (i.e. First name, Last name, email, etc)
1- Add the Username field to your form
a- Allow it to be populated dynamically (advanced tab)
b- Type "username" in the "parameter name" text field
2- Add the following code snippet to your template's function.php file
add_filter('gform_field_value_username', 'populate_username');
function populate_username(){
global $userdata;
//populating field with the username
return $userdata->user_login;
}
alexinfinity,
To populate other user related fields, replace the following line:
return $userdata->user_login;
with one of the following:
1- to populate field with display name
return $userdata->display_name;
2- to populate field with email
return $userdata->user_email;
3- to populate field with url
return $userdata->user_url;
4- to populate field with status:
return $userdata->user_status;
sorry to hijack this thread again but i thought my question is relative to this.
Is it possible for me to create a link with a query in it to pass the text to a gf form?
sor for example the url would be http://www.domain.com/contactpage.htm?pass=datatpass
then 'datatopass' is input into the form automatically
is this possible?
Yes, you can pass data to pre-populate a field using the query string.
You need to turn on dynamic data population for each field you want to do this with, and then give it a parameter name when you do so.
That parameter name is then what you use int he query string to pass the data to the form.
So if you have a field for email, you can edit the advanced settings for that field and turn on dynamic data population and then give that field a parameter name of email.
Then when loading the page with the form on it you would pass ?email=VALUE and the field would be pre-populated using that value.
