[Resolved] Retain Author field value when editing it from the front end

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[Silvia]

Hello, I am developing a project/event management website for my company. I want to have the ability to insert PROJECTS or EVENTS and assign them to a colleague, who is going to be responsible for the planning. Each Project or Event has one or more tasks that need to be assigned to different people based on the type of task (administrative, marketing, communication, logistics etc..)

I used the infos on this thread https://toolset.com/forums/topic/change-cp-author-on-frontend/ in order to be able to change the author assigned to a specific project or project task on the front end with Forms and it works ok except for one small thing.

Following the instructions I used this code in order to insert a generic field in the front end form

[cred_generic_field field='change_post_author' type='select' class='' urlparam='']
{
"required":0,
"validate_format":0,
"default":[],
"options":[ [wpv-view name="All Authors"] ]
}
[/cred_generic_field]

and whenever I display the form, the field has “unassigned” value. This is ok when I am inserting a new project or task.
Whenever I try to modify a project or task tho, the generic field shows the “unassigned” value even tho the task or project has been assigned to a specific author, in fact erasing the original value, even tho I might be editing that specific task or project to change a deadline date or other fields

I would like it to retain the value stored when I am modifying a task or project, and give the user the opportunity to change the original value or leave it as is.

[Christian Cox]

You can use the "default" attribute to specify the value that should be pre-selected in the Form. The value should be the post author's User ID. You can access that value with a wpv-post-author shortcode:

[wpv-post-author format="meta" meta="ID"]

https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-post-author
Depending on where this Form is placed, you may need to add the post's ID to the shortcode in an "id" attribute. If you give me some more context, I may be able to help with that. Is the Form in a View, or in a Content Template, or in a Template layout? What is the URL?

[Silvia]

Hello Christian, thanks for your answer!
Would it be ok if i granted you access to the website so that you can actually see what the problem is?

[Christian Cox]

Yes that will be fine. Private reply fields are available here. Let me know how I can find the Form on the front-end of the site.

[Christian Cox]

I made the change I described dfor you. Here's the updated code:

[cred_generic_field field='change_post_author' type='select' class='' urlparam='']
{
"required":0,
"validate_format":0,
"default":[[wpv-post-author format='meta' meta='ID']],
"options":[ [wpv-view name="Tutti gli Utenti"] ]
}
  [/cred_generic_field]

[Silvia]

Thank you so much Christian,
I proceded to modifying the other form and now it stores values perfectly! Thanks a lot as usual!!