Hey Christina,

I’ll ask Tim or John to update it.

The date and time stuff should still work, but the post type has changed between ECP 1.3 and ECP 2.0, so you may need to rebuild the form using the new custom post type. If that doesn’t work, then let me know.

Yes, it is, but internally the post type name has changed which is why I think that redoing the form should hopefully fix it.

Thanks for confirming, Christina. John is going to take another look at this and should be in touch here shortly.

Hi folks. It looks I spoke with John about this today and it looks like you can get Tim’s original tutorial working by adding this code to the functions.php file:

add_action(‘save_post’, ‘save_tec_event_meta_from_gravity’, 11, 2);
function save_tec_event_meta_from_gravity($postId, $post) {
if( class_exists(‘TribeEvents’) ) {
// only continue if it’s an event post
if ( $post->post_type != TribeEvents::POSTTYPE || defined(‘DOING_AJAX’) ) {
return;
}
// don’t do anything on autosave or auto-draft either or massupdates
if ( wp_is_post_autosave( $postId ) || $post->post_status ‘auto-draft’ || isset($_GET['bulk_edit']) || $_REQUEST['action'] ‘inline-save’ ) {
return;
}
if( class_exists(‘TribeEventsAPI’) ) {
TribeEventsAPI::saveEventMeta($postId, $_POST, $post);
}
}
}

If anyone has any problems with this or find it non-functional (we tested today and it worked without issue), please let me know.

Awesome, thanks for this Rob. Attempting to do this integration with GFORMS right now

Here is the correct code (did you really try test this?! haha – two equals signs were missing, could not have worked, crashes site)

add_action(‘save_post’, ‘save_tec_event_meta_from_gravity’, 11, 2);
function save_tec_event_meta_from_gravity($postId, $post) {
if( class_exists(‘TribeEvents’) ) {
// only continue if it’s an event post
if ( $post->post_type != TribeEvents::POSTTYPE || defined(‘DOING_AJAX’) ) {
return;
}
// don’t do anything on autosave or auto-draft either or massupdates
if ( wp_is_post_autosave( $postId ) || $post->post_status == ‘auto-draft’ || isset($_GET['bulk_edit']) || $_REQUEST['action'] == ‘inline-save’ ) {
return;
}
if( class_exists(‘TribeEventsAPI’) ) {
TribeEventsAPI::saveEventMeta($postId, $_POST, $post);
}
}
}

No luck, tried everything I could think of…. I don’t expect we’ll receive support on this issue either as the “community events” add-on is coming out sometime…and it’s basically going to do the same thing we are trying to do with gforms

Oh, also – the code is a bit clearer here: http://tri.be/event-submissions-using-gravity-forms-in-2-0/. I doubt you manually rewrote it based on my first note, but if you did, try that code instead.

Hi guys,

I apologize for the syntax error – our issue tracker stripped out the 2 equal signs when I copy/pasted. To save venue and organizer try to add the following lines above the saveEventMeta line.

$_POST['Organizer'] = stripslashes_deep($_POST['organizer']);
$_POST['Venue'] = stripslashes_deep($_POST['venue']);

if( !empty($_POST['Venue']['VenueID']) )
$_POST['Venue'] = array(‘VenueID’ => $_POST['Venue']['VenueID']);

if( !empty($_POST['Organizer']['OrganizerID']) )
$_POST['Organizer'] = array(‘OrganizerID’ => $_POST['Organizer']['OrganizerID']);

What is your venue name custom field called? Is it _EventVenue or _VenueVenue? You should be using the latter.

Excuse me but my english is bad

I have gravity forms license but i thought that with community events was not necessary gravity forms.

Can someone tell me what is the diference becuase im a bit lost.

Hey Rob,

Soo I have followed all of the directions on the Gravity Forms tutorial and get everything up until the “paste into functions.php”. Is there a specific place I need to plug this in?

This is what my functions.php looks like: http://bit.ly/uFAZHN

The file I am editing is “functions.php” edited through the drop down menu under Appearance in the WordPress dashboard sidebar, which traces to my theme folder and functions.php file, so everything is good from what I gather.

When I try to update it, it brings the whole site down, and just shows a blank white screen. Everything fails to load and I have to overwrite the functions.php file with the original via FTP.

I’m not a developer really, but I think it’s pretty straight forward. I just am missing something. What am I missing here?

Went looking into the DB to see what I could see.
-Venues are stored as a custom post type (tribe_venue)
-Venue details are stored as post meta (custom fields) on tribe_venue
-Venue ID is post meta (custom field) on event post type (tribe_events)
-Similar approach for Organizer (tribe_organizer)

Seeing this approach makes me more inclined to wait for the community events add-on, but if I were to take a stab at implementing something specific to GF with TEC 2.0 I might:

-Use a standard drop-down field for Venue ID
-Populate it with hook on gform_validation that pulls all posts with type tribe_venue storing the ID as value and name (post title) in display
-Augment the save_tec_event_meta_from_gravity function Brian wrote to get it into $_POST format expected.

My immediate use cases for GF / TEC integration don’t go farther than that, but if you wanted to add a drop-down option to ‘add new venue’ via the front-end:
-During save event with add new venue selected….
-Create a post (venue) with the venue info as post meta data and retrieve the post ID
-Store that as the venue ID in place of the drop-down value for ‘Add New Venue’ option before letting the function described above occur.

I just finished doing a rideshare board plugin that used GF for front-end submission (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/idealien-rideshare/) with custom post type + taxonomies for the data storage which was comparable, but much easier by being able to just do wp_insert_term for any new elements.

Out of curiosity – did extending terms (something like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/taxonomy-metadata/) ever come up as a potential vector rather than venue / organizer being post types?