[Resolved] Assign parent post title to child post title using CRED

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[Joan]

I have a cred form to create post types items where I choose the parent post type item trough a select control and when I click to the submit button it is created a child post item. I want that this selected parent title was the post title of the child post type item created.

I try to add to assign the post-title trough a cred field that it would be hidden.

I get a similar issue in: https://toolset.com/forums/topic/auto-fill-child-post-title-with-parent-title/

What I was not able to get the title of the parent post. Instead I get the title of the page when I try to get it. This is the code of the cred form:

[credform class='cred-form cred-keep-original']

[cred_field field='form_messages' value='' class='alert alert-warning']

<div class="form-group">
<label>Parent title</label>
[cred_field field='_wpcf_belongs_socicdp_id' value='' select_text='--- not set ---' class='form-control' output='bootstrap']
</div>
<label>Child title</label>
[cred_field field="post_title" post="child slug" value="[wpv-post-title id="$parent"]" urlparam=""]

I try to use [cred_post_parent get='title' post_type='child slug'] instead of [wpv-post-title] but I get some problem with the syntax of the nested shortcode. But if I insert just the code:

[cred_post_parent get='title']

I get the title of the page instead of the post title of the parent.

Is there a way to do it? If is possible trough shortcodes it was perfect, elsewhere by code.

Thanks.

[Christian Cox]

There's not a way to do this with shortcodes, but you could use the cred_save_data hook to automate it.
- Edit your child CRED form. Delete the Post Title input field.
- Add custom code to your functions.php file that will set the child post title to match the parent post title:

add_action('cred_save_data', 'copy_parent_title_to_child',10,2);
function copy_parent_title_to_child($post_id, $form_data)
{
  // if a specific form
  if ($form_data['id']=='12345')
  {
    if (isset($_POST['_wpcf_belongs_parentslug_id']))
    {
      $my_post = array(
      'ID' => $post_id,
      'post_title' => get_the_title($_POST['_wpcf_belongs_parentslug_id'])
      );
     wp_update_post( $my_post );
    }
  }
}

Change '12345' to match the numeric ID of your CRED form, then change 'parentslug' in both places to match the slug of your parent post type. For example, if your parent post type slug is "something-great" then your code should be:

$_POST['_wpcf_belongs_something-great_id']

[Joan]

Perfect!

Thanks.