Pre-Populate GF form with ACF Field Data

• kkramer2195

• March 19, 2016 at 1:24 am

Hi Everyone,

I am working on getting ACF data (specific to a logged in user) to appear pre-populated in Gravity Forms, I tried using this code from a 4 year old post in GF Forums but no luck.

https://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/dynamically-populate-advanced-custom-field-instead-of-a-normal-custom-field

/* Dynamically populate Gravity
———————————— */
add_filter(‘gform_field_value_dept_name’, ‘my_user_info’);
function my_user_info($value){
return get_field(‘dept_name’);
}

I added ACF Fields for “Logged In” users and have 3 fields (Dept Name, Dept ID and Billing Link), once I get the first piece of code working I will duplicate it (unless anyone has a better solution to consolidate it to one line of code, I am still learning PHP functions.

Any ideas/solutions?

Thanks in advance!
Ken

• John Huebner

• March 19, 2016 at 2:04 am

As long as GF is still working the way it worked in that post. I’m not very familiar with GF, I can help you get things out of ACF but putting them somewhere else…

When getting the value for a user you need to give ACF the $post_id argument.

add_filter('gform_field_value_dept_name', 'my_user_info');
function my_user_info($value){
  $id = get_current_user_id();
  $post_id = 'user_'.$id;
  return get_field('dept_name', $post_id);
}

see getting values from other places on this page http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/get_field/

• kkramer2195

• March 19, 2016 at 2:11 am

Hi John,

That code worked perfectly! Now 2nd part of the question, is best solution to repeat the code or is there a way to have one function return all three values?

Thanks for quick reply!

Ken

• John Huebner

• March 19, 2016 at 2:36 am

If all of your fields in GF have the same field name as the field names in ACF then there is a way that you can use a single function, that’s if I’m understanding the GF hook from what I’m seeing.

I’m assuming that the GF hook is "gform_field_value_{$your_field_name}"

Lets say you have 2 fields

$field_names = array('field_1', 'field_2');
foreach ($field_names as $name) {
  add_filter('gform_field_value_'.$name, 'load_my_custom_values');
}
function load_my_custom_values($value) {
  // get the current filter that was called
  // it will contain the field name
  $filter = current_filter();
  // remove 'gform_field_value_' from filter name
  $field = str_replace('gform_field_value_', '', $filter);
  $id = get_current_user_id();
  $post_id = 'user_'.$id;
  $value = get_field($field, $post_id);
  return $value;
}

• kkramer2195

• March 19, 2016 at 2:42 am

Thanks again John!

I modified the second code example to have a third variable, and it worked perfectly!! I then modified a value and refreshed the page and it brought it in as I want!

This is great!

Thanks again this helps me out a lot! (and good code example to follow!)