Accessing User Meta Custom Fields to Pre-Populate Forms

[SFireMedia]

I am using Gravity Forms, and love it. Needed to add “2” custom fields to the User Profile. After two days of searching, I found your “Pro” plugin and purchased it.

It does add the fields and shows in the User Profile.

My Gravity Forms Registration “Add-On” and the associated form, can map it’s fields to the 2 custom forms. So far, so good.

Now the problem: I need those two fields to “Auto-Populate” into another form.

Here is the added Codes in my function.php…

/*PREPOPULATE FORM FIELDS */

add_filter(‘gform_field_value_firm_name’, create_function(“”, ‘$value = populate_usermeta(\’firm_name\’); return $value;’ ));

add_filter(‘gform_field_value_firm_phone’, create_function(“”, ‘$value = populate_usermeta(\’firm_phone\’); return $value;’ ));

add_filter(‘gform_field_value_user_firstname’, create_function(“”, ‘$value = populate_usermeta(\’user_firstname\’); return $value;’ ));

add_filter(‘gform_field_value_user_lastname’, create_function(“”, ‘$value = populate_usermeta(\’user_lastname\’); return $value;’ ));

function populate_usermeta($meta_key){
global $current_user;
return $current_user->__get($meta_key);
}

Note the Meta Fields for “user_firstname” and “user_lastname” (default WP fields) work great and pre-populate inside my form.

But the two fields created in your plugin, will not – “firm_name” and “firm_phone”.

What am I missing?

BTW: I am hoping you have a much faster response than I’m seeing as I scan through all the other posts on this forum. When I pay money for a premium plugin, I expect better support than the “free” plugins.

I also in researching this, know many many other people who are looking for this same solution, so if this can be fixed, I will go back and tell all those other users about this solution and that your plugin is the bomb…. 😉

[Insite Advice]

I’m also curious how to access the custom fields in the frontend

• This reply was modified 11 years, 5 months ago by Insite Advice.

[Khaled]

Hello bizanswers,

Unfortunately so far we did not offer filter/action hook for field pre-population. We are hopeful to announce many hook with next release(1.1.3rc2).

In your example,
gform_field_value_firm_name hook might not be available so this hook are triggered.

With GravityForm, if you find any hook that run before showing field data, you can retrieve meta data saved by UMP by calling get_user_meta function anywhere.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_user_meta

Please checkout for next release, it will be arrive soon.

Thanks.

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