[Resolved] Preselect parent in childpost form

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[Thorworx]

Tell us what you are trying to do?
Preselect parent in childpost form

I have done many searches of the documentation, but most results are very old, and many of the solutions seem to be hidden in the support threads.

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I've created a CRED form to add new child posts to a CPT parent. This form will display ON the parent CPT page (and maybe in a View loop).
I have a relationship field that was inserted via the relationship field in the Form Wizard.
This generated the following code in the form:

<label for="%%FORM_ID%%_@competition-entry-competition-entry-rating.parent">[cred_i18n name='@competition-entry-competition-entry-rating.parent-label']Competition Entry[/cred_i18n]</label>
			[cred_field field='@competition-entry-competition-entry-rating.parent' class='form-control' output='bootstrap' select_text='--- not set ---' required='true' author='$current' urlparam='parent_competition-entry_id']

(I've switched to the advanced form editor, and don't think I can switch back to the wizard without losing manual changes I've made). I tried doing this manually in a hidden field, but was not successful.
The above wizard code generates a drop-down select that works fine for creating the child post relationship, but I just need to have this field value pre-selected (and hidden - I know I can hide it with CSS).

It would seem that it should be easy to change this select to a single (hidden) field, but I'm not seeing how to do it.

[Luo Yang]

Hello,

Please try to replace the shortcode you mentioned above from:

[cred_field field='@competition-entry-competition-entry-rating.parent' class='form-control' output='bootstrap' select_text='--- not set ---' required='true' author='$current' urlparam='parent_competition-entry_id']

To:

[cred_field field='@competition-entry-competition-entry-rating.parent' class='form-control' output='bootstrap' select_text='--- not set ---' required='true' author='$current' urlparam='parent_competition-entry_id' value='[wpv-post-id item="$current_page"]']

and test again

More help:
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/forms/cred-shortcodes/#cred_field
value. Optional. Preset value
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views/views-shortcodes/item-attribute/
$current_page is used to retrieve data from the current page being rendered.

[Thorworx]

Thanks Luo. That works perfectly.