user_meta shortcode not working as expected…

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Howdy again!  I have another question for Stephanie or whoever…

I have a form that registers users (using the registration addon) and I have a couple of fields for additional user meta… Location and Department (using this to register employee accounts)… both of the fields are dynamic fields pulling in from a location add form and a departments add form.   In the Settings I have two meta fields set up as such:

Employee Location = Location

Employee Department = Department

I’ve verified that the meta is showing up in the user profiles and such fine.  Great!  However when I try to pull in the current logged in users Location and Department into text fields on another form using [user_meta key=emplloc]  (emplloc is the key I assigned to the location field on the registration form) and [user_meta key=empldept] (empldept is the key I assigned to the department field on the registration form) it doesn’t work.  Using other dynamic default values like [user_name] and such work and pull in the correct info, but the user_meta short code isn’t pulling anything in (the field is blank when I go to fill in the form).

Where am I screwing up?

 

Thanks so much for everything… you guys are real life savers and your support is amazing.  I am constantly telling people how great your plugin is!!

Can you please attach a screenshot of the registration settings that are creating the user meta in question?

Of course!  Take a look see...

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You need to use [user_meta key="Employee Department"] to retrieve it. The meta key us whatever you insert in the user meta settings.

I get these errors/problems when I use that:

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What type of field is the drop down showing in the registration form? A regular drop down or a data from entries field? Is that form creating WP posts? Do you have another plugin populating user meta into "Employee Department"?

The registration drop downs for location and department are data from entries dropdowns.  None of the forms are creating posts.  No other plugins populating any user meta.

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Maybe you could make a quick, temporary change to see what value is getting returned? Please go to formidable/pro/classes/helpers/FrmProFieldsHelper.php and go down to 176. Add the line in red right before it. This will output something right in front of the error message you are seeing.

print_r($value);
preg_match_all( "/\[(\d*)\b(.*?)(?:(\/))?\]/s", $value, $matches, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);

The 3 there is the correct ID for the department that my account is associated with.

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Ok, maybe try a small fix. Please go up a few lines to line 168 and change this:
if(is_array($new_value))
$value = $new_value;
else
$value = str_replace($val, $new_value, $value);

to:

            if(is_array($new_value)){
                if(count($new_value) === 1)
                    $new_value = reset($new_value);
                $value = $new_value;
            }else{
                $value = str_replace($val, $new_value, $value);
            }

That does return a 3 into the text field now... is there a way to have it give the department name instead of the numerical value?

Since you're using a data from entries field there, it would probably be better to add a hidden field set as user meta, and populate that with the name with a bit of custom code in your theme functions.php or a new plugin. Please see this related post.
http://formidablepro.com/help-desk/populating-post-meta-data-with-location-name-instead-of-id/

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