I want users to be able to fill out a form whetehr they are an existing user or not, and then update role if they are existing, and create a new user with a role if they are not. Does the update user feed do this?
If not, how do we accomplish this?
Hello Phililp,
You require a form where users can either be existing or new. For existing users, their role should be updated; for new users, a new account should be created with a specified role. You are asking whether the “Update User Feed” in Gravity Forms can achieve both of these functions within a single form.
Please note that, Gravity Forms does not support using the same form for both new user registrations and user updates simultaneously. To allow users to register as well as update their details, you will need to create separate forms for each action.
Additionally, the User Registration Add-On does not automatically create custom roles or capabilities in WordPress — any required roles must first be created and configured within WordPress before they can be assigned via the form.
I hope this helps.
Best regards.
Is there a gravity whiz snippet or something where i can just update the user role if they already have an account
Looks like we do have a snippet that could help here:
It’s been a looong time since I’ve used this one but I believe the idea was that you would add a Hidden field to your form to determine if the user is logged-in:
And then you would add conditional logic to the Create feed (in GFUR) so that it only processed if the user was not logged in and the opposite conditional logic on the Update feed.
I also just stumbled across this hook/example that might work well for your needs as well, particularly if there is no difference between your create user and update user feeds.