Problem:
In a CRED form for creating post, We initially had a post taxonomy term select field that was automatically populated based on the page it was on. These industry pages were given the same custom taxonomy we created for the CPT post that was to be created from these forms, and assigned the appropriate taxonomy term to match the term the post needed to go to. The idea was that the user shouldn't have to worry about selecting an option from a "Choose Industry" field when they're already on a page designating the industry they're interested in.
We had it working, but for whatever reason it no longer is, so I'm wondering if there was a PHP solution that I could utilize for this case.
Solution:
There isn't such a built-in feature within CRED forms, see our document:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/cred-shortcodes/#cred_field
The argument "value" works only for custom field in CRED form, it does not work for the taxonomy field.
As a workaround, you can setup a generic field in the CRED form to replace the taxonomy field:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/cred-shortcodes/#cred_generic_field
When user submit the CRED form, you can use CRED action hook "cred_save_data" to trigger a PHP function, and save the "industry" value into database, see documents:
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/#cred_save_data
This hook allows doing a custom action when post data is saved to database.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_set_object_terms
Relates an object (post, link etc) to a term and taxonomy type
See the solution with codes:
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/dynamically-populate-taxonomy-term-select-field/#post-900063
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