How to allow editing field values thru Frontend Submission by the author only?

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June 6, 2018 at 2:51 AM #10066

EddyPiV
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Members of my website enter their profile information through Frontend Submission.
The info is shown in the frontend: post + all fields.

How do I give a member the possibility to edit his data in the frontend?

First of all: only for his own post (there is only 1 post per member) there should be a link (preferrably a button) to this edit form.
How to do that?

Second: how to have an edit form in Frontend Submission with all values from the database filled?

Thanks for your help.

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June 18, 2018 at 7:34 PM #10240

EddyPiV
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Hi Anh,

I have installed the Frontier plugin, which allows my users to edit their own post(s) in the front-end.
All well, but what remains is how to allow them to edit the MB fields in the front-end?

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June 22, 2018 at 3:54 AM #10297

lighterdayz
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Following for the answer.

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June 22, 2018 at 11:54 AM #10305

Anh Tran
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Hi,

Each submitted post will have an unique post ID. You need to get that ID and set it in the post_id attribute of the mb_frontend_form shortcode. That will allows user to edit the info.

There is a similar topic that you might be interested in.

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June 28, 2018 at 3:08 PM #10371

EddyPiV
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That works great, to a large extent.

As I want to allow users to edit their own fleds in the frontend, it should only be possible for their own posts, i.e. where the author = logged in user.

Any suggestion?

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June 28, 2018 at 5:07 PM #10372
Anh Tran
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You can:
- Get the author of the submitted post (via post_id)
- Get the current user ID
And just compare them. When they match, output the shortcode. Otherwise, output some error message.

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June 28, 2018 at 6:01 PM #10373

EddyPiV
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That's how far I got as well. I was hoping you could give me some php code, as I am not familiar with php myself. And I guess this may be useful for other users as well?

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June 29, 2018 at 1:15 PM #10378

EddyPiV
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I managed to display the link only for the author. This item can be closed now. Thanks.

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