Forminator and Pods

Hi @beelinedigital,

I hope you are doing well today!

Please elaborate the query a little bit more such as what kind of checklists do you want to add and what will be the main purpose of them etc.

Also please share the link of the form page and an export of the form with us, so that we can check further.

You can find more info on how to export the form here : https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#import-export

After exporting, please share the code using a service such as https://pastebin.com which is free to use.

Please always make sure to use such service to share the code and don’t post the code here directly as it will most likely be unusable.

Kind regards,
Zafer

Thank you

I am not using code just the plugsin PODS and Forminator Pro.

The checklist is for a registration form (but using the Post Form so it adds to a POD) and could be for anything. But an example would be

Please tell us which industry you have worked in?
Manufacturing
Construction
Finance

I would like their selection to be automatically added to the POD by completing a form.

Hope this helps.

Karen

Hi @beelinedigital

I hope you’re well today!

There are two aspects here:

1. To map form checkbox to custom field that PODS uses for this checklist.

This is possible and you can do it this way:

– add a checkbox field to your form, with all the options needed
– then in “postdata” field enable “custom fields” option
– then define custom field: in “label” put exact name of your custom field and in “value” you can click the “+” icon to select your chekbox field of the form.

This is the basis and should be done anyway but whether it will work out of the box or not, it depends on the format used by PODS to store information about checked checkboxes.

2. PODS checkbox data format

So that’s the second aspect. Forminator will only send the data in a simple “flat”/string format and most likely PODS uses a different format. In ACF that’d be an array; PODS may be using the same format or json or some other format.

So what would need to happen would be to convert that data provided by form into format expected by PODS.

In case of ACF this code would help

https://gist.github.com/adczk/68db359343f68533d8df184b6ccccec7

Configuration is simple and described in code header comment (basically just define ACF checkboxes names) and the code should be added as MU Plugin.

I’m not sure if PODS stores data the same way but it’s quite possible so you may want to give it a try.

Best regards,
Adam

Thank you for your help with this.

Unfortunately, it hasn’t worked. I have followed the instructions and added the code as MU Plugin.

Do you have an email so I can set you screenshots of the steps I have taken.

Thank you

Karen

Hi @beelinedigital

To speed up the process here, please use this form https://wpmudev.com/contact/#i-have-a-different-question and make sure that subject is “I have a different question” and:

– Mark to my attention: ATTN: Kris

– Link back to this thread

so that we will follow up there to check this issue for you.

Kind Regards,
Kris

Thanks Kris,

Will do.