Connect form entries to fields on page

If I understand correctly, you want to pre-fill the form fields with values from the entry fields? If so, you can do it with $args: https://advancedforms.github.io/guides/basic/displaying-a-form/

There’s the part ‘values’ => array() that you can use to pre-fill the form fields.

For example, could use this in a template file:

$args = array(
	'values' => array('field_name_on_form' => $value_from_entry),
);
advanced_form('form_id_here', $args);

This of course means that you have to first get the value from the entry and save it as a variable, in this case as $value_from_entry. How to do that depends on the field and how it is set up, but if you’re using ACF, there’s a pretty good documentation for things like this.

If this is not what you’re after, then excuse me ??

Hi!

If your aim is to be able to edit posts I would recommend checking out the pro version available here: https://hookturn.io/downloads/advanced-forms-pro/. It has post editing built-in which means you can just specify a post ID when displaying your form and it will automatically pull all fields from the post.

If you want to do this yourself that is possible too! As @tuuuukka helpfully explained you can use the values argument to specify pre-filled values for your fields (fetched from your entry of choice). You could then use the af/form/submission hook to save the updated values back to your entry. This is how the pro version does it but a bit more automated!

Also I should note, the built-in entries are mostly for administration and are not really meant to be used on the front-end. This means that they are set as non-public and if you want to use them as a regular post type you would have to change this with a filter. I would instead recommend creating a new post type and using that instead!

Hope this helps! ??