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Problem:
A form to publish child posts is included directly in the template for the parent posts (not linked to separately). How to automatically set the parent in the relationship field?
Solution:
You can provide a default value when inserting/editing the relationship field, and use the shortcode wpv-post-id for the value, which will insert the id of the post where the form is shown (i.e. the parent post).
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Last updated by 5 years, 9 months ago.
Assisted by: Nigel.
Hi Marcel
In the new Form builder the field to select the parent post is no longer included by default, you have to drag it in an add it where you want.
Please see this screenshot.
(I've passed a note to the documentation team to update the link you shared.)
If it is not clear from that link, the parent can be preselected when you link to the child post form from the template to display parent posts.
In the example in the documentation, venue is a parent post type, event is a child post type.
The form to publish child events includes the parent selector field and is inserted on some page.
The template to display venues includes a button to add an event (publish a child post), which is a link to the page where the child post form is shown.
You insert that link using the Toolset Forms button (screenshot), and the link that is generated will add a URL parameter that specifies the parent post that is passed to the page with the child form which the child form uses to pre-select the parent.
In that case if you want to include the form to publish a child post directly on the parent post then when inserting the parent selector field in the form you can provide the default value with the wpv-post-id shortcode (which will output the post id of the post where the form is displayed, i.e. the parent post in this case).
