user generated posts

Hi,

sorry, my english is not so good, but I'll try to explain;-)

i want to use Gravity Forms for user-generated posts. If they know a hostel, they should answer some questions, where it is, how many beds, a radio-button box... And when they press submit, there should be a new post. I guess, I need to use the custom fields, but I really don't know what I have to do. Could you please give me an idea?
Thanx, peregrino

Hi:-)

I tried what you told me and it works:-) great! It is exactly what I was searching for.
but...just the body-field and the title-field. When I want to use the custom-fields, it doesn't work...? Do I have to enable something in the advanced-options? Or do I have to write something in the single-post-template? I'm sorry, I am a little bit stupid with that...

peregrino

Indeed.

In case you're interested, there are also two other ways of doing it. The first, and very basic way, is to prepopulate the body content in your form with certain text that acts as prompts to the answers/information you want. Those using the form then just complete that populated text. Of course, this is very basic, as it wouldn't - for example - enable sorting by reference to custom field values.

The second and more complicated way is to use the Gravity Form hooks and some function calls, so that when WordPress processes a form/post submission, it inserts content into your post depending on the answers to the questions in the forms. This can be done with or without the use of custom fields, though I guess using custom fields would be preferable, as it'd give you flexibility later on if you wished to output data by reference to custom field values (although you could probably achieve the same effect through a creative use of categories and subcategories).

I probably won't have time to do this, so can't promise anything, but why don't you post all your requirements here. Either I or one of the GF crew will probably be able to help you make this happen.

R.