[Resolved] Using fields from one post type in view to fill CRED fields for other post type

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[gavinS-2]

Tell us what you are trying to do?

I have two post types, (request-line and accessories), which both have the same parent post type (item-model).

request-line has the field 'quantity' as well as the parent item-model.

accessory has the fields 'amount' & 'accessory-item' as well as the parent item-model.

The field 'accessory-item' is actually storing item-model id's as well as the parent item-model id. The reason for this is that I'm trying to store a list of items that are accessories for the parent item. eg. If you rent a certain item, I want to suggest a list of other items that people normally rent with the original item, for the user to accept or edit.

When a request-line form is submitted, I would like to query accessories to see if there are any that have the same parent model-item as the request-line just submitted.

If there are matches I would like to open a view on a new page which shows a list of CRED forms, one for each accessory that has the same parent, HOWEVER, the forms should be saving to request-line, not accessory.

So If there are three accessories that have the same parent model-item as the current request-line, I wish to show a view with three request-line CRED forms, with the 'amount' and 'accessory-item' fields from the three corresponding accessories filled in as default values for the 'quantity' and 'model-item' parent fields for the request line forms.

So then the user can edit or submit those 3 forms, and then go back to the page where they were filling in the request-lines.

Does this make sense? How could I go about doing this?

[Noman]

Hi Gavin,

Thank you for contacting Toolset support.

request-line has the field 'quantity' as well as the parent item-model.
>> Not getting this point, does it mean that “Quantity” field is present in both CPTs request-line and Parent CPT item-model?

The field 'accessory-item' is actually storing item-model id's as well as the parent item-model id.
>> What does the last “parent item-model id” mean? As you have said that the field 'accessory-item' is actually storing item-model id's.

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[Noman]

Hello Gavin,

You can achieve it by doing following steps:

- When user submit request-line CRED form then we can redirect user to specific page using following hook:
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/#cred_submit_complete
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with parent id in URL i.e your-site.com/cred-page?parent_id=XX

- On that page we need to get all accessory posts that accessory-item field have same value as request-line parent in parent_id parameter. We can use following class:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query
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- Now we need to display same number of CRED forms for request-line CPT as we have total matched accessory posts in previous step.

- To pre filled quantity and parent field in CRED forms we need to make small shortcode and we can use following docs to achieve it:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/#cred_save_data

Please note this requires a custom code or modifications which falls into Custom coding & custom development and it is out of support policy (https://toolset.com/toolset-support-policy/). So we recommend to contact Toolset recommended service providers to further discuss the custom approach. We have some recommended list of service providers here if you would like to take a look: https://toolset.com/consultant/

Thank you