Gform_get_meta returns nothing [RESOLVED]

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HI,

I have the following snippet of code that has been working for several years. Recently updated GravityForms and now it seems like the gform_get_meta function is not returning anything.

add_action( 'gform_after_submission', 'set_post_content', 10, 2 );
function set_post_content( $entry, $form ) {
     

    //if the Advanced Post Creation add-on is used, more than one post may be created for a form submission
    //the post ids are stored as an array in the entry meta
    $created_posts = gform_get_meta( $entry['id'], 'gravityformsadvancedpostcreation_post_id' );
    foreach ( $created_posts as $objpost )
    {
        $post_id = $objpost['post_id'];
        $post = get_post( $post_id );


I cannot figure out why it is returning empty.  When I use phpAdmin to look at the meta table, I can see the records in there.

Thanks,
Westley
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Hey Westley,

It looks like the hook has not been depricated and still available in the following URL. Do you have any update regarding this, @chrishajer?

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If it is on tap to be deprecated, what should I use instead?

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This is because Advanced Post Creation Add-On feeds now run asynchronously, meaning when your custom hook runs, the post has not been created yet.

You can change this using the gform_is_feed_asynchronous filter to disable async feed processing for Advanced Post Creation feeds.

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Thanks a lot Travis!

That did the trick. I just wish somewhere in the documentation I had seen a reference to that or at least the fact that the Advanced Post Creation Add-on switched to asynchronous processing.

Thanks again!

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The following page of the documentation lists which add-ons use async/background processing and the version it was enabled in: