set logged in user as pods post author

You would actually do it the same way through Gravity Forms. You wouldn’t change that action for Pods. Just map the WP Object field as you normally would, though you might need to create a hidden field for it to map over to the Pods Processor with.

Hi Jim Thanks for the response, I got it working in the end along the lines of your suggestions, I was just wondering if was an option in the drop down mapping in a similar way gravity forms uses a check box in the post title or post body field, for us ones slow on the uptake, saves the need for a hidden field. Any way just rambling now.
Thanks for your good work I just found pods a week ago and love it.

Matt

On these you have to think of the form as a different entity from Pods. We can connect to taxonomy and relationship fields, but until we have the ability to ‘edit’ existing records with Gravity Forms (a planned update), we won’t have full two way communication, so it’s going to be harder for us to incorporate direct field checkboxes like that. You are welcome to add a GitHub Feature request for that, though. https://github.com/pods-framework/pods-gravity-forms/issues/new

For User Author, if you look at the list of available fields, there’s a whole set of auto defined fields (like IP Address, etc which includes logged in user): you could map that to your author field in the Pods Processor.