How to set the parent in a CRED form for child posts on the same page

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Problem:
Client has a CRED form to publish child posts, and wants to include the form itself on the parent page. In that case how to set the parent post id in the CRED form?

Solution:
Use the wpv-post-id shortcode for the field value, like so:

[cred_field field='_wpcf_belongs_party_id' value='[wpv-post-id]' select_text='--- not set ---' class='form-control' output='bootstrap' ]

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Last updated by gavinS-2 6 years, 10 months ago.

Assisted by: Nigel.

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January 10, 2018 at 1:04 pm #605109

gavinS-2

I'm not sure if I'm just being stupid, but I can't seem to find this info anywhere.

I'm trying to create a CRED form for a child post type. But I want to display the form on the parent post.

In other words, I have a parent post type called Parties. On the single page for parties I want to include a CRED form for a child post type called Quotes. I have done this, but when I save the form it does not save the parent details. I'm not sure how to tell it to save the parent ID as the parent post above the form.

January 10, 2018 at 2:42 pm #605140

Nigel

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Hi Gavin

I haven't tested this, but if you are displaying the child form directly on the parent post, then you should be able to use the wpv-post-id (which will be the id of the current post, i.e. the parent) in your child post CRED form as the value for the parent post selector.

Your child form must include the field for the parent post id (even if you hide it with CSS), so try setting the value with wpv-post-id.

Let me know how you get on, if it doesn't work I'll have a re-think.

January 11, 2018 at 8:47 am #605352

gavinS-2

Hi Nigel

Thanks for the help, but this doesn't seem to have worked. I'm assuming you mean I should do this in the CRED form:

<div class="form-group ">
		<label>party Parent</label>
		[cred_field field='_wpcf_belongs_party_id' value='wpv-post-id' select_text='--- not set ---' class='form-control' output='bootstrap' ]
	</div>

However when I go in to the Quote post in the backend in the post relationship box it says:

This Quote belongs to Party [Search for Parties]

which I'm assuming means the relationship has not been set?

January 11, 2018 at 9:36 am #605372

Nigel

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Hi Gavin

Sorry, you need the square brackets around the shortcode, I didn't have it in my original reply because of formatting limitations, but it would be like so:

[cred_field field='_wpcf_belongs_party_id' value='[wpv-post-id]' select_text='--- not set ---' class='form-control' output='bootstrap' ]

If that doesn't work I will need to think of something else.

Let me know.

January 11, 2018 at 9:55 am #605379

gavinS-2

Ah silly me. That's it. Thank you sir.