[Resolved] Ability to create new child posts during the creation of a parent post in CRED

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[larryB-3]

Tell us what you are trying to do?
I have a parent post type called "Facility Report" that basically only has a couple of fields. I also have numerous child post types for that parent that a user could choose to create when completing a Facility Report. I'm looking to create a front-end form using CRED where a user starts a new Facility Report, completes a couple of data fields and is then presented sections on the form for each of the child post types, for example "landscaping", "gates", and "clubhouse". The user should be able to click on something, maybe a "+" and complete the couple of fields associated with that child post type as necessary. Repeating with the other children sections also. When all done, the main parent post type of Facility Report is then created and when viewed you could see the parent fields and the child post fields that were completed.

Is there any documentation that you are following?

Is there a similar example that we can see?

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[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

Well - you can use CRED API hook cred_save_data in order to create child post.

Considering that you have created parent/child relationship using Types:
=> https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/creating-post-type-relationships/

Now, you can use CRED hook: cred_save_data to manipulate your data and create child post
=> https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/cred-api/#csd

Using above hook you can create child entry using the WordPress function - wp_insert_post:
=> https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_insert_post/

To establish relationship (connection) between your parent and child post type entry you need to add postmeta key. When using Types posts relationships, the parent of a given type is stored in a field:

_wpcf_belongs_{parent-posttype-slug}_id

Let’s assume that we are displaying a Car post type that has a Maker as a parent post type.
Each Car will store its Maker (parent) id in the field _wpcf_belongs_maker_id.

update_post_meta($child_post_id, '_wpcf_belongs_maker_id', $post_id);

Please check following related ticket that may help you:
=> https://toolset.com/forums/topic/automatic-post-creation-on-registration/#post-555243

[larryB-3]

Thank you.