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bostondave
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I am building a registration form for a non-released website and I am trying to connect GF to a custom user taxonomy. I can get the taxonomy to dynamically populate using the custom post type add on and it shows up on the form but it does not populate the data on submit.

If my taxonomy name is registered as "skill", should I use a merge field {user:skill}?

My method for registering a custom user taxonomy was taken from the example on this page - it is basically registering a taxonomy to a user and not a post.
http://justintadlock.com/archives/2011/10/20/custom-user-taxonomies-in-wordpress

Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday July 10, 2012 | Permalink
David Smith
Member
Hi Dave,

When you say that it does not populate on submit, do you mean that the submitted data is not applied to user taxonomy for the user in question? If so, you will likely need to hook into the gform_user_registered hook and apply some custom functionality to apply the submitted form data to the user taxonomy for that user. The custom functionality will be based on the "Assigning terms to users" section of Justin's article you linked to above. This piece in particular will do most of what you need:
```
[php]
wp_set_object_terms( $user_id, array( $term ), 'profession', false);
```
More info here: http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_user_registered
Posted 12 years ago on Monday July 16, 2012 | Permalink
mstaaij
Member

Hi Dave, take a look at this solution:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-gravity-forms-custom-post-types-custom-user-taxonomies?replies=3#post-3038896

Kind regards, Mark

Posted 12 years ago on Friday August 3, 2012 | Permalink
David Smith
Member

Looking good Mark! Thanks for sharing. :)

Posted 12 years ago on Friday August 3, 2012 | Permalink

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