[Plugin: Gravity Forms Directory] User Edit Record Ongoing Issue

It’s still not working for me. Ugh. ?? I’ve done everything above, installed the new plugin and changed the entry to match the user. I’m using the Members Plugin and have assigned a role for the members of the organization. What capabilities should they have assigned?

https://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/17/members-wordpress-plugin

The only time I can make edits is when I’m logged in as Admin. Even then I get an error when updating the entry.

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Hi @dj Smith
I had the same problem, also use the Members Plugin and was only able to edit the entries when logged in as admin. But for me it is solved now, I added the capability gravityforms_directory to the role that required to edit the entries and voila! Hope it works for you too.

That’s a security risk though. By doing that you give everyone who’s logged in permission to edit anyone’s record. I don’t want someone else going into another members record and making a change. That just opens a can of worms.

The way this plugin should work is only giving the person who created the record permission to edit their record, and only their record. I’m hoping that Zack is either making needed changes, let me know if I’m doing something wrong or another solutions. Thanks.

I am having this problem as well. I originally set up my users as Authors, but I had a problem with them creating and publishing new content when all I wanted to allow them to do was edit their entries from the form. I changed their roles to Contributors, and now they no longer see the “Edit Entry” link. I then went and changed their roles back to Author, but the link is still not coming back up. Is there any way to allow them to edit their form entries using the Subscriber role? I really don’t want them to be able to do anything else on the site, but I’ll conced the Contributor role if I have to.

@firstep3 While Zack is working on this issue, one thing you might do is restrict access to areas of the Dashboard and Configuration using plugins like Adminimize and Admin Editor Pro.

@nancyeb01 – Thank you so much for your suggestion. I actually ended up going with Adminimize to restrict what the users can see in the admin area, but I still needed to give them a way to see and edit their own posts without seeing or editing other people’s posts. I picked up two additional plugins that allowed me to accomplish everything I needed. One was called Manage Your Own Posts, which was not on the WordPress site, and the other was User Role Editor, which allowed me to make sure that my Authors could edit their changes but not publish them. This allows me to validate the content before it goes live.

I am still not seeing the “Edit Entry” link, and I was hoping to go live with my site this weekend. If it has to wait it can. One major favor I would like to ask is to have the “Edit Entry” link moved to the top of the page, rather than the very bottom. Some of our entries are VERY long, and ALL of the users who did the early testing (when my links were working) complained about how difficult it was to locate the link.

@djsmith I agree it would be dangerous if they can edit someone elses post but they can only see their own posts in the directory. There’s not another place they could see the “edit” button is there?

@PamelaLooper – I am using Gravity Forms to create posts with some of the data we collect, we are storing some of the other information separately. I need my users to be able to go into WordPress later and have the ability to edit their posts. The “Edit Entry” link that we are having problems with is part of the Gravity Forms Directory that is being used to allow them to edit the data that does not get displayed in the post. (Editing that data in Garvity Forms does not update the post data.)

I wanted to make sure that my users could go into WordPress and edit their own posts, but not be able to see anyone else’s or edit those. Sorry for the confusion!

@firstep3 Thanks, I block my users from the wp dashboard. They can only post and edit posts via the gravity forms. I agree the Edit Entry link would be much better at the top.

However, after editing via the Edit Entry link the changes are not actually dynamically made in the post, which makes it a little useless. Am I overlooking something?

Nope, you’re not overlooking anything. The Edit Entry link only allows you to edit the Gravity Forms data. Once your form creates the post, everything tied to that post is now in the WP tables. That’s why I’m allowing my users to access the admin area in WP. The plugins I am now using only allow them to see their own posts and their profile page. They don’t have access to anything else. Also, I have it set up so that any changes they make get submitted for review. They can’t actually publish their changes. Publishing is only allowed for admins. We use other data from the form that gets used for a custom search, and we need the Edit Entry link to be able to update that data separately from the post data.

Ah, that’s a little disappointing, the form data was so nice and clean, the posts have a lot of custom fields that may confuse. I’ll check out the Manage Your Own Posts Plugin though, my users do need to be able to edit the post. I have Members plugin installed for role access.
Thanks very much @firstep3 for your advice!

I’m a little frustrated that Zack doesn’t monitor the support page for his plugin more often. I have a client that has been waiting for this to work for months. They want their members to be able to edit their entries. I can’t do that because I get get an error when trying to edit an entry. Plus the link appears for all members which gives anyone access to changing another members entry. Does anyone have any suggestions or had luck at making contact with Zack? I e-mailed him over a week ago with no reply. Ugh. I know know this is free but you still have an obligation to the WordPress community.

Been having the same problem that the user has to be an admin to edit their own details when the level of user I want is subscriber. A good way around this is to install the Members plugin, and set subscriber role to be able to do this by selecting ‘gravityforms_directory’.

This seems to work and adds an edit entry link to the single page view of the user’s details.

I recently wanted to use this plugin and was having the same issue, users that were subscribers (or any role for that matter) could not edit their own entries (because there was no entry link)

I am not sure if this is entierly correct, but I have isolated the issue to 2 lines in the gravity-forms-addon.php file

on lines 459 and 806, the following statement is made:

(!empty($options['useredit']) && is_user_logged_in() && $current_user->id === $lead['created_by'])

the problem with the last part of this expresion ($current_user->id === $lead['created_by']) is that this will always fail, since $current_user->id is an INT, while the $lead[‘created_by’] is a string. The === comparison compares types as well, so it will always return false.

This might be due to some update in GF, or maybe WP core, I don’t know.

Anyways, the patch I had to do is to replace the lines with:

(!empty($options['useredit']) && is_user_logged_in() && $current_user->id == $lead['created_by']) (only 2 equal signs, ignoring the type in the comparison)

Hope this helps