Using Toolset Form to Send Data to Custom Table

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Last updated by michaelO-8 4 years, 6 months ago.

Assisted by: Shane.

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June 5, 2020 at 6:09 pm #1652097

michaelO-8

Hello,

I was wondering if it is possible to insert data into a custom wordpress table instead of the postmeta table by using a toolset form.

Thank you!

June 5, 2020 at 6:57 pm #1652141

Shane

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Hi Michael,

Thank you for getting in touch.

Unfortunately no this is not possible to do as our Form is meant to populate the wordpress default Post and postmeta tables.

If you want to add values to custom tables then you will need to use some amount of custom code to achieve this.

When you use our Forms plugin we do provide hooks that you can use and perhaps you can write your custom code in one of our save post hooks, however this will leave duplicates in your database.

These values will also need to be referenced so you will need to write custom code to get the values from the custom database table as well.

Thanks,
Shane

June 9, 2020 at 3:10 pm #1655867

michaelO-8

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!