Is is possible to assign a category via a frontend Guest Entry form.
I tried
<input type="hidden" name="fieldHandle" value="SomeExistingCategorySlug">
But that did not work.
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Simply put, a Categories field is an array containing category ids, and your form needs to send it that way:
<input type="hidden" name="fields[fieldHandle][]" value="100">
Adding brackets to your field-handle submits the value as an array, and 100 is the id of the category.
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You can either output it in your template:
{{ craft.categories.group('group_handle').slug('some_slug').first.id }}, or go to "Backend -> Categories" inspect a category, and look for thedata-idattribute.– VictorCommented Aug 11, 2014 at 18:03 -
I had tried using the data-id before I asked. Sorry, should have specified. Form sends, all data is recorded, just not the category. Commented Aug 11, 2014 at 18:10
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Try creating a plugin with a
guestEntries.beforeSave-event and dump-die all the data, to check if it gets send correctly.– VictorCommented Aug 11, 2014 at 18:33 -
Replaced
name="fieldHandle[]"withname="fields[fieldHandle][]"and Victor's solution worked. Commented Aug 13, 2014 at 13:27