User Specific Form Fields

Hello,

I've created a gravity form to act as a work request form. Essentially the user logs into a private site, and fills out the work request which is then submitted to a field rep via email routing. Easy enough.

What I'd like to accomplish is to have a drop down menu populated with selection choices based on the user logged in. In other words, when User A logs in he/she can pick from option 1 and 2, but when User B logs in he/she can only pick option 3 and 4.

I'm currently using the Extra User Details plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/extra-user-details/) to add additional fields to the user profile and pre-populating single line text form fields using the Default Value variable created with the plugin (e.g. {user:user_phone} ).

However, what I can't figure out is how to tie drop down selections (radio buttons, checkboxes) to the user. I realize there may be some custom code involved to pull this off, or an additional plugin, etc. Any help pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.

Thoughts?

David,

Thank you for your quick reply. I've read several of your posts before and you're very helpful on these forums. I appreciate you chiming in here.

I read through the page you linked and I understand the principle. I played around with the code for a while and am still having trouble with the exact arguments to use.

Please see the code.

I think I'm supposed to use "get_metadata" to retrieve the user fields. But I'm not sure what follows in the parenthesis and then how that translates to the array. Ultimately I'm trying to grab information listed in a "meta_key" (e.g. community_name) in the user profile.