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    • April 26, 2018 at 8:06 am #8873
      thor
      Member

      How would you set up a field, that reflects the current user.

      piklist('field', array(
	'type' => 'text',
	'field' => 'my_filed'+currentusersIDhere,
	....

      Would it work and be safe to use the users id integer?

    • May 2, 2018 at 10:27 pm #8895
      Steve
      Keymaster

      @thor– Try adding this to your form file:

      
  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'hidden'
    ,'scope' => 'user'
    ,'field' => 'ID'
    ,'value' => $user_id  //pass the id here
  ));
    • May 3, 2018 at 5:18 am #8896
      thor
      Member

      Thanks @Steve.

      But I am not sure if it will work in my case.

      Imagine a site with authors, that each have their public “author profile page” – where they have som featured posts.

      I want to use piklist to have a checkbox saying “feature this post” (which will determine if the post is shown on their author page). So this box is per user, hence I was wondering if ‘field’ => ‘my_featured_post_’+$user_id would be the best approach? Each user would only see their own “feature this post” field.

    • May 3, 2018 at 10:03 am #8897
      Steve
      Keymaster

      Save the field as scope => user, and it will save to user meta. Then you can pull that meta per user. Does that make sense?

    • May 3, 2018 at 10:28 am #8898
      thor
      Member

      ah yes, I think that makes sense 🙂

    • May 3, 2018 at 10:37 am #8899
      Steve
      Keymaster

      Great! Let us know if you need any more help. Closing this ticket.

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