Sequential Numbering Form Submission

Hi @greenrooster,

Thank you for contacting us.

The feature you are describing is currently not available. The good news is this has been added as a feature request already, so our Plugin team is looking into to consider it for a future release. As a possible workaround, you may try the following snippet as an MU plugin or in theme’s function, which uses a hidden field that will allow to add an incremental ID for each submission:

add_filter( 
	'forminator_custom_form_submit_field_data',
	function( $field_data_array, $form_id ){

		// We're using a custom macro <code>AUTOINCREMENT_INT</code> set as value for a field.
		// Make sure you add this value only in hidden fields
		$needle      = 'AUTOINCREMENT_INT';
		$incremental = get_post_meta( $form_id, 'autoincrement_int', true );
		$update_meta = false;

		foreach ( $field_data_array as $key => $field_data ) {
			if ( isset( $field_data[ 'value' ] ) && $needle === $field_data[ 'value' ] ) {

				if ( ! $incremental ) {
					$incremental = 1;
				} else {
					$incremental++;
				}

				$field_data_array[$key][ 'value' ] = $incremental;
				$update_meta                       = true;
			}
		}

		if ( $update_meta ) {
			update_post_meta( $form_id, 'autoincrement_int', $incremental );
		}

		return $field_data_array;
	},
	20, 
	2
);

In order to make this work, add a hidden field to the form and make the hidden field’s Default Value to Custom and add this macro as value AUTOINCREMENT_INT.

That should create a new post meta that will hold that value. Initially (it will be empty) and then it will set it to 1(you can change the 1 in Snippet to a different starting value). Then on each submit it should increment by one.

Best,
Jonathan S

This snippet works… But when I use the hidden field slug {hidden-1} in ie email subject or email body – all I get is “AUTOINCREMENT_INT”. The only way to output the right value is using {all_fields} – which is unhandy.

So an incremental field type would be great to have – if it plays nicely in other places like email notifications or calculations etc…

Thanks, @wpmudev-support9, I’ll try this out when I am able.

@filak18, I agree, long term this would be great to have and utilize in areas like the email body and subject. For now, this will be a fine solution for me.

@wpmudev-support9 This works exactly like I need it to. Thank you! I’m closing this ticket now.