[Resolved] CRED Save Data Hook Not Updating Custom Field

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[julieP]

I have a generic field in a CRED form and I added a save_data hook to my functions file to update a types custom field in the database with the value selected by the user but nothing is happening.

This is the code for my generic field:-

[cred_generic_field field='time_of_day' type='select' class='' urlparam='']
{
"required":0,
"validate_format":0,
"default":[],
"options":[
{"value":"1","label":"10.00"},
{"value":"2","label":"11.00"},
{"value":"3","label":"12.00"},
{"value":"4","label":"13.00"}
]
}
[/cred_generic_field]

and this is the code I added to my functions file:-

add_action('cred_save_data', 'test_one_create_save_data_action',10,2);
function test_one_create_save_data_action($post_id, $form_data)
{
    // This is the CRED form ID
    if ($form_data['id']==131)
    {
// 'time_of_day' is the field name in the CRED generic field setup
        if (isset($_POST['time_of_day']))
        {
            // 'wpcf-time-of-day' is the meta key that the value of 'time_of_day' will be added to
            add_post_meta($post_id, 'wpcf-time-of-day', $_POST['time_of_day'], true);
        }
    }
}

When I first tried it, I hadn't actually created a Types post field wpcf-time-of-day so I created it before trying again but the value selected using the generic field still isn't added to the database.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Can you help please?

Also, just to help me understand the generic field better, what role/purpose do the values I assign to Values have please?

Many thanks

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

This is strange - your code looks OK to me. To investigate this issue further I need problem URL where you added CRED form.

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[julieP]

Hi Minesh

Really sorry but this was down to me; I found some inconsistencies in my functions file that were causing issues, now I've removed them the code works. It's a test site so no harm done but a valuable lesson learned!

Thanks for checking my code 🙂