Jive Software
Member
Are there any hooks for Gravity Short Codes? I would like to pass page variables to my forms so I can populate hidden fields for different types of tracking technologies...
Or can some on point me to any online documentation on customizing Gravity Short Codes?
Thanks!
Steve
There isn't anything in the shortcode, but there is some PHP you can use to grab variables from other things to pre-populate hidden fields:
http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_pre_render
Make sure you have allow dynamic population checked on any fields you want to have values pushed into.
Jive Software
Member
Hi David
Thanks... This helps... I can see this working for web service calls... I am having a hard time visualizing how to integrate your hook at the auther contribution level...
Ideally for the future it would be great if we could hook into the short code so I can use the forms created on the forms menu as templates verse actual forms. The when the author adds the form to a post or page they can insert the short code like so:
[gravityform id=1 name=Example Form title=false description=false ajax=false campaignId=123 campaignName="hello world" assetId="1245" assetName="hello world whitepaper" ]
If you want default values like that for certain hidden fields, you can do that in the form builder. But you are right, you can't do it in the short code currently. All my best!
Jive Software
Member
I just learned from reading on another blog that i can just use "field_values", and then I check the prepolutate check box... =O)
[gravityforms id=2 field_values='id=1234&name=test']
Or if I want to get fancy embed a short code inside another short code...
Be careful with the shortcode within a shortcode thing, as I think it can cause issues in certain cases.
Also, make sure you have the populate dynamically selected on the fields you are going to push values to in this way. The field_values call is almost never used, hence why I blanked on that. Sorry!
Hi!
there is something i do not understand or not work properly.
I need to populate dynamically an Hidden field with a shortcode.
The shortcode in anypage seems to work and give me a number.
But when i try the pre population seems to ingore it...
@simmons: Closing this topic as a duplicate of the one you started here:
http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/hooks-shortcode-to-populate-dynamically
