[Resolved] Post Form Value from URL Parameter

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[Sean]

I have two post types: Members & Checkins
They have a 1 to Many relationships.

I have a search that returns Members. When that is clicked on, it takes you to create a Checkin based on the URL Parameter (parent_member_id). Everything works so far.
When I click that to create a Checkin (which takes me to something like: website/checking-in/?parent_member_id=10 ),

I want the title to be the exact copy of its parent Member. This is what I currently have:

[cred_field field='post_title' class='form-control' output='bootstrap' urlparam='parent_member_id']

But that only returns the numerical value of the member (10 in the above example), not the proper title.

In the past, before Toolset relationships, I did it using:

[wpv-post-title id="[wpv-search-term param="parent_member_id"]"]

but that doesn't seem to work any longer.
Ideas?

[Nigel]

Hi Sean

You can set a default value using the value attribute. Populate that using the wpv-post-title shortcode and add the item attribute with the id coming from the parameter. Similar to what you describe but using the item attribute, so something like

value="[wpv-post-title item='[wpv-search-term param='parent_member_id']']"

If that doesn't work to set the field value, what happens if you just output that wpv-post-title shortcode in the form directly? What does it display?

[Sean]

It just displays the title of the page where the CRED form is located.

[Sean]

Fixed it.
I had neglected to embed the CRED form within a View. It needed a View with a post ID filter, otherwise it wouldn't return the proper information (which is coming through the URL parameter). I had that in place on my older sites, but had forgotten that one extra step.