[Resolved] Passing parameters between toolset and gravity forms

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[ryanM-9]

Tell us what you are trying to do?
I have a range of products, each one displaying on a content template when selected... I have a gravity form at the bottom where the user adds their email address so we can send them more info on the product, I need the form to return this field [types field='q1'][/types] so I know which product the user wants information on.

Is there any documentation that you are following?

Is there a similar example that we can see?

What is the link to your site? hidden link

[ryanM-9]

Here is the template

<div class="prodQ">
     <ul class="curve">
       <li><span>What is it?</span><span>[types field='q1'][/types]</span></li>
       <li><span>Who Is It For?</span><span>[types field='q2'][/types]</span></li>
       <li><span>Why Do You Need It?</span><span>[types field='q3'][/types]</span></li>
       <li><span>Where Does It Fit In?</span><span>[types field='q4'][/types]</span></li>
       <li><span>When Do You Need It?</span><span>[types field='q5'][/types]</span></li>
     </ul>
   </div>
  <div class="prodQEmail">Click Here For More Info</div>
  <div class="prodForm">
 [gravityform id="15" title="false" description="true"]
  </div>
</div>

[Nigel]

Gravity Forms has three ways of passing values to fields within the form, as described here: hidden link

Via the shortcode wouldn't work, and neither would via query string unless you modify the page itself so that a URL parameter was added.

Which leaves using the final option, via a hook.

For the Toolset part, you should be able to get the current value of the q1 field like so:

global $post;
$q1 = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'wpcf-q1', true );

You can then return the value of $q1 (instead of "boom!" as in the GF doc example).

[ryanM-9]

Hi Nigel, thanks for your help... but on the form reply it's just returning '$q1' rather than the actual info - as you'll see in the image.

This is the code in my functions:

global $post;
$q1 = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'wpcf-q1', true );


add_filter( 'gform_field_value_your_parameter', 'my_custom_population_function' );
function my_custom_population_function( $value ) {
    return '$q1';
}

[Nigel]

You are returning the string '$q1' not the variable $q1.

Also you need to include the code to retrieve the custom field in the GF hook.

Try this:

add_filter( 'gform_field_value_your_parameter', 'my_custom_population_function' );
function my_custom_population_function( $value ) {
	global $post;
	$q1 = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'wpcf-q1', true );
    return $q1;
}

Except, you need to change 'your_parameter' to the Gravity Forms field you want to populate with the value of q1, as described in the GF documentation.

[ryanM-9]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!