[Resolved] Copying dynamic select field and saving value into another field for display

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[DieterR7285]

Tell us what you are trying to do?
In an edit post form I would like to save a value from a dynamic select field into another field for display and storage purposes.

Is there any documentation that you are following?
I searched for a similar approach but could not find any documentation or help for this.

Is there a similar example that we can see?
Yes there are forms in place needing the change.

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[DieterR7285]

To elaborate further in the edit post form I have a country look-up select field from a third-party solution. I will need that value selected to be saved into the database. And then retrieved for display in the listings view. Please see the attached screenshot.

The idea here is that I could maybe use a second field into which I copy the selected value and upon saving the form can be retrieved.

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

As I understand, you want to copy the "Select Different country of birth" field value to the field "Place of birth - country stored". If this is correct, then you can use the Form's API hook "cred_save_data":
=> https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/#cred_save_data

For example:
- Please add the following code to your current theme's functions.php file
Or
- You can add the following code to the "Custom Code" section offered by Toolset:
=> https://toolset.com/documentation/adding-custom-code/using-toolset-to-add-custom-code/

add_action('cred_save_data', 'func_update_contry_field',10,2);
function func_update_contry_field($post_id, $form_data){
    // if a specific form
    if ($form_data['id']==9999){
        if (isset($_POST['field-slug-current-country']))
        {
            // add it to saved post meta
            update_post_meta($post_id, 'filed-slug-to-store-country', $_POST['field-slug-current-country']);
        }
    }

Where:
- Please replace 9999 with your original form ID
- replace the correct field slugs with "field-slug-current-country" and "filed-slug-to-store-country"