Creating hidden fields with static values ...

Hiya,

We're looking to create hidden fields in forms with static values ... just for internal tracking more than anything else, and to make some coding easier to do.

Now, I see in js.php, in the SetDefaultValues() JS function, switch() statement, the 'hidden' field goes something like this:

case "hidden" :
            field.inputs = null;
            if(!field.label)
                field.label = "<?php _e("Hidden Field", "gravityforms"); ?>";
            break;

I'm making an additional entry in the switch JS there, and trying to find a way to set the value of the hidden field while creating it. field.value and field.content do not work for this purpose, is there another attribute that would? Alternatively, is there another method that I could call this via javascript? I'm outputting my JS following the contents of js.php via the 'gform_editor_js' action hook.

Well ... kinda maybe, I guess. Best as I can figure with that method, I'd have to store the value in the meta of the post that contains the form, then do something like ...

add_filter("gform_field_value_myfield", "populate_myfield");
function populate_myfield($value){
return get_post_meta($GLOBALS['post']->ID, 'myfield', true);
}

like you said, but ... there's no way to pre-populate them as a static value from the form editing page? Because with that method, it's case will depend on where the form is placed. We want it to be static on a form-by-form basis, regardless of where that form is placed.

Make sense?

Yeah, that's the problem. I've added some filters/hooks to 1.5 to let me add new custom field types and the like (and started another thread asking for some to be rolled into to the source) ... but I can't seem to sort out exactly how to finagle this.

Is there some documentation explaining exactly what properties the field object (in JS, that gets sacked back and forth from php) can have, how to set them, and what they mean?

Also -- one thing to tidy up the JS a bit -- you can do the following:

jQuery(document).ready(function($){
    $('div#blah').whatever();
});

-- as a shortcut to use $ in noconflict mode ... just pass $ to the function. I saw in the JS you were using the long-hand version for all of it, and it can get a bit messy to parse through.

Cheers!

Rightio. One potential discrepancy I've found is that it seems the HTML elements that get shoved in a form seem to get set
field.inputType = 'html';
whereas all other field types get set
field.type = "select";
or the like. Is this syntax intended to merge at some point in the future? I'd hate to code to one set of data, only to have the back-end plugin of GravityForms pull the carpet out from underneath me after an upgrade!