Custom Display of Form including “Data from Entries” fields

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I have two forms. Form 1 captures address information and work order information. Form 2 is used to track invoices for those work orders. In Form 2, I have several “Data from Entries” fields that automatically pull in address and work order information from Form 1. I’m trying to setup a Custom Display that will show the invoice information, however, in the form fields that are available (if I choose to “Use Entries from Form” – Form2), none of the fields that have data from entries of Form 1 show up. I can’t input that information into the Custom Display for Form2. It’s pretty important to note this information, otherwise no one will know which address is being referred to by the invoice. Any ideas?

If form 2 has the data from entries fields, and your custom display is set to use form 2, then the fields from form 1 show up in the dropdown used to insert the field shortcodes into the content box. Are you not seeing these? The fields from form 1 are listed under the data from entries field.

I'm not seeing those options. It goes straight to the fields that I added to form 2. That's why I was confused. I would think that they would show.  I've attached a screen shot of the custom display form 2 as well as the actual form building page. Please let me know if I've setup something wrong. Thanks.

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"Just show it" data from entries fields aren't available for use. You must have a drop down, checkbox, or radio data from entries field that you select from. The "just show it" fields must be set to conditionally be hidden unless the parent drop down or whatever is equal to anything.

That was the issue. Thank you. This is a phenomenal plugin, by the way.

One more question along these lines. I'm trying to filter what shows on this custom display and I have set the WHERE to "Status is like Invoiced", but nothing appears in the front end display. Any ideas on how to get this to show.

Here's a screenshot of what's happening:

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When using "data from entries" values, you have to specify either the field ID or the field key in the where clause. Specifying the value won't work (knocked myself out on this one...)

In my case, I had "Pet Status is equal to Available" & it didn't work. I changed it to "Pet Status is equal to status_available" where "status_available" is the field_key, and it's good. Same if I set it to "Pet Status is equal to 115" where 115 is the field_id.

Formidable - it would be really nice if, when the Field specified in the Where clause is a "data from entries" field, the value for the Where clause became a dropdown with the available options to select from!

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