Limitation - Editing forms submitted with dynamically populated dropdowns

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Hi all…

I’m not sure if there’s a work-around (I guess that’s why I’m posting), but I’ve noticed that if you want to edit an entry that has been created using dynamically populated drop-downs (the issue probably applies to any choice field), those options are obviously not covered by the scope of the edit, and you just end up with blank drop down fields.

As ‘edit’ is such a critical part of Gravity Forms, I was wondering if this issue had ever been addressed?

Thanks

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How are you populating the field?

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Gravity Wiz ‘Populate Anything’ in some cases… In one other case, I’m using a custom filter to create dropdowns out of ‘list fields’ (I hold little hope for solving that one)

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You’ll need to check with Gravity Wiz about Populate Anything, I thought it also filters the form for the entry detail page, so the choices should be available.

For the custom filter, which filter(s) exactly?

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It’s a Gravity Wiz snippet: 'GW_List_Field_As_Choice"

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Their snippet library indicates the code has a filter for the values:

Using their example as a starting point, I’ve modified it for the entry detail edit page:

add_filter( 'gwlfac_list_field_values', function ( $values, $form, $args ) {
	if ( is_array( $values ) ) {
		return $values;
	}

	if ( GFCommon::is_entry_detail_edit() ) {
		$entry = GFEntryDetail::get_current_entry();
		// Verify the entry list field has previously stored values to use.
		if ( $entry ) {
			$values = unserialize( rgar( $entry, $args['list_field_id'] ) );
			if ( ! is_array( $values ) ) {
				return false;
			} else {
				return $values;
			}
		}
	}

	return false;
}, 10, 3 );
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Thanks @richardw8k and hi @user64b9df5e85ccb026, Dario from Gravity Wiz here. Based on my tests, the snippet works as expected.

It won’t work when editing the Entry on the backend because of Gravity Forms limitation that doesn’t support paging in the Edit Entry page and the snippet requires a multi paged form to work.

As an alternative, the snippet should work by editing the entry on the front end using Gravity Forms Easy Passthrough | Gravity Perks by Gravity Wiz or Gravity Forms Entry Blocks - Gravity Wiz

I hope this helps.

Best,

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