[Resolved] Displaying parent field as default value

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[gavinS-2]

Tell us what you are trying to do?

I have a single post page for a parent field (request). On the page I have a CRED form for submitting fields for a child type (request-lines). I am trying to use the request field 'start-date' as a default value for the request-line field 'line-start-date'. (Ie. I want the field for the parent start-date to display on the form as the default value for line-start-date.)

Is there any documentation that you are following?

I have been trying to follow this: https://toolset.com/forums/topic/cred-form-dynamic-default-value-based-on-post-custom-field/ (#56273) where it says I should try and do this:

[cred-field field="benchmark" post="wod-logs" value='[types field="xxxx" id="$yyyy"]']

On my form I have the following:

<div class="form-group">
		<label>Line Start Date</label>
		[cred_field field='line-start-date' post='request-line' value='[types field="start-date" id="$request"]' urlparam='' class='form-control' output='bootstrap']
	</div>

But even though there is a value for start-date, the line-start-date is showing as a blank.

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[Noman]

Hi Gavin,

Thank you for contacting Toolset support. Date filed takes value in unix timestamp. You can fix this issue by adding following code in your theme’s or child theme’s functions.php file

function convert_date_timestamp_func($atts) {
	$a = (shortcode_atts(array(
	    'date_string' => '',
   ), $atts));
   $date_string = $a['date_string'];
   $date_timestamp = strtotime($date_string);
   return $date_timestamp;
}
add_shortcode('convert_date_timestamp', 'convert_date_timestamp_func');

And then use following field in CRED form.

<div class="form-group">
        <label>Line Start Date</label>
[cred_field field='line-start-date' post='request-line' value='[convert_date_timestamp date_string="[types field="start-date" id="$request"][/types]"]' urlparam='' class='form-control' output='bootstrap']
</div>

I hope it helps.

Thank you

[gavinS-2]

It works!

Thank you sir