Automatically create related items

If you have the registration form on the same page with the individual event, you can create a ‘hidden’ field in the form that is set to the related event so that the user doesn’t have to or get to select it.

How are you creating the Registration Form? Using the form() function from PODS or a shortcode?

Thanks for the reply Jim.

I’m using a shortcode to create the form. It’s a very bare bones set up at the moment.

I guess my question is how do “create a ‘hidden’ field in the form that is set to the related event”? Is that by setting a default value? What would the magic code be for that?

I’m slowly pulling together an understanding of what magic tags work (and – just as importantly – where) really wish I could find a definitive list/reference.

So it seems like if I could set the default value of my the ‘event’ field in the relationships pod to {@ID} then I’d be good to go but this doesn’t seem to work from within the shortcode Registration form on an Event page.

BTW, I really have no idea what Set Default Value by Parameter does

I hope that all makes sense

There is no way to do a hidden form in a shortcode. Instead use Pods::form()

https://pods.io/docs/code/pods/form/

Is there now way to achieve this using ‘Set Default Value’. It seems like a lot of trial and error to figure out what works.

Where can one learn about ‘via Paramater’

If you’re not terribly comfortable with PHP, you can do exactly what you’re looking for with the Gravity Forms Plugin for Pods:

https://github.com/pods-framework/pods-gravity-forms

Sorry to keep pointing you to different options, but looking at your questions, you don’t seem that comfortable with PHP and the shortcode for forms is VERY rudimentary, there are a large handful of things you can send to that shortcode, though. This article breaks down what’s available:

https://pods.io/docs/learn/shortcodes/pods/

it allows you to specify a Pods Template to use, so reasonably, you COULD create a very specific HTML form using a Pods Template and magic tags to include just the fields you want and set the individual event value on the form.

We don’t really have a way to set a default value for the form, because the form doesn’t know the context of where it is, especially if you’re creating one that is based off another Event. Gravity Forms definitely makes this a little easier.

Hi Jim

No need to apologise, thanks for time and help!

You’re right, I’m no PHP expert, so was keen to explore all options through Pods itself.

My first impression was that I could achieve what I was after (automatically creating a related registration from an event page) by being able to set the default value of the related registration field and hiding it from the UI using Pods Admin. I’m still not sure why this doesn’t work, and what ‘set via parameter’ does.

Anyway, I have managed to achieve what I wanted in a Pods template using Pods::form() as follows…

$regPod = pods( 'registration' );
$thisEventID = $obj->id();
$formFields=array('email', 'event' => array( 'default' => $thisEventID, 'type' => 'hidden' ));
echo $regPod->form($formFields);

I hope that all makes sense

Actually that makes perfect sense and is probably the best way to get the form to work the way you’d like without going the Gravity Forms direction.