Topic Tag: Forms with post relationships

Problem: I would like to create a link from a View of parent posts to a CRED form that creates child posts. The parent post should be automatically selected in the CRED form when the user clicks the child post link.

Solution: CRED offers a child post shortcode that can be placed in a View of parent posts that will automate this process.

[cred_child_link_form form='506' parent_id='-1' target='_self']

You can place this shortcode in a Content Template or directly into your View's Loop Output editor. If you want to place this code in a Content Template that is constructed with Beaver Builder, then you cannot use a button module. You should use an HTML module.

Relevant Documentation: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/cred-forms-for-child-content/
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/displaying-fields-of-parent-pages/

Problem:
How to display data or field from a Parent post on a CRED form that creates a Child post? I want to add a specific field from the parent post which is a Date field.

Solution:
1. Please add following code in your theme’s or child theme’s functions.php file:

add_shortcode('cred_parent_field', 'cred_parent_field_func');
  
function cred_parent_field_func($atts)
    {
        extract( shortcode_atts( array(
            'id'=>null,
            'field' => null,
            'format' => null
        ), $atts ) );
  
        $parent_id=null;
  
        if ( isset($_GET['parent_'.$id.'_id']) )
        {
            $parent_id=intval($_GET['parent_'.$id.'_id']);
        }
               return do_shortcode( '[types field="' . $field .'" format="'. $format . '" id="'. $parent_id . '"][/types]');
    }

2. Add this shortcode in your child post form:

[cred_parent_field field="assigned-hours" format="FIELD_NAME: FIELD_VALUE" id="program"]

In above shortcode:
==> Replace field="assigned-hours" with your field name
==> Replace id="program" with your Parent CPT slug
==> For Date field format, you can change format value as: format="m-d-Y"