Update form is not populating

I’m having a similar issue. The form is not populating for some users. It seems to work fine for me, but the screenshots i have been sent from others show that it clearly does not populate for them.

I was thinking that it was probably a permission level issue. But am only just starting to investigate.

Ok. For me it is a matter of ‘contributors’ not having access to edit posts.

When i switch my test user to ‘author’ status the form will populate, but switching back to ‘contributor’ the form will not.

When I did my testing, I was logged in as an admin so it is not related to a lesser role on the site.

Not sure if I’m doing something wrong but it seems that I have the same issue of the form not being populated… The documentation is saying that all we need is the form, but what will that form have in it? How does the post meta get mapped to the form elements? Should it work by default?

Nevermind the previous question! Of course, 2 minutes after I posted I realized how to do it by looking at the demo video of the initial plugin, “Gravity Forms – Update Post”. The info should be added to this one’s documentation as well.

And to the original poster, didn’t mean to hijack your thread, but I thought I had the same issue with you.

I need to test this. This is the only notice I have gotten on this. Sorry for the slow response, just a crazy couple weeks and traveling now… I will try to get to this as soon as I can which should be this week, but not likely today.

So the issues still seems to be there but only when you use the edit link.

If I use the [gravityforms id=”4″ update] within the body of the post or add it to the template it will populate fine, but if I use

do_action('gform_update_post/edit_link', array(
    'post_id' => $post->ID,
    'url'     => home_url('/edit_post/'),
) );

it will not populate the fields but the form will update the contents of the post with the values specified in the form…

How are we doing on this, @jcow? I just had to revert an update that I inadvertently did to the plugin.

For the time being, I have specifically disabled updates for your plugin using this code:

add_filter( 'site_transient_update_plugins', 'vm_filter_plugin_updates' );
function vm_filter_plugin_updates( $value ) {
    unset( $value->response['gravity-forms-post-updates/gravityforms-update-post.php'] );
    return $value;
}

Seems i’m having exactly the same problem, no form field fetches data except the featured image shows on edit form.

any update ?
@marj does that means the older versions of the plugin work gret and populate data fine? if yes could you direct me to version no or possible fwd that very one ?

@kais12 – Based on my experimentation, yes. I had a very old version of the plugin working. It was the version that I downloaded from JupiterCow’s Bitbucket repository long before it was published here as a plugin in the WordPress repository. That is still working. It is v0.6.3.0.

When the updated “broke” the plugin on another development, I backed it out and am still running v1.2.10 there. I disabled updates using the code that I posted above.

Jake has not come back the last few times that I asked about it at BitBucket. We haven’t heard from him here for 3 months.

Here’s that thread:
https://bitbucket.org/jupitercow/gravity-forms-update-post/issue/32/form-is-not-populating-with-data

@marj Thank you for such a quick reply. .
Can ya forward me a copy of that version ?
It would be so nice of ya

You can download it from here:
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/gravity-forms-post-updates/developers/

Don’t forget to add the above code to disable updates of that plugin at your site.

To disable updates, you can also just use the Disable Updates Manager plugin.

I try to avoid adding plugins when the code to accomplish the task is just a couple of lines, as in this case. ??

I am really sorry to disappear. It was not my plan, but a few things got in the way. I am making updates now.