I would like to funnel jotform submissions into forum topics. I believe I see where and how to map form fields into the topic body, but I'm stumped as to how to specify the author of the post.

My assumption is that I will need to include a hidden field in the form that will map to post author — in this case I would use a forum admin account to be the post author. 

What is the format required for post author that the Invision zap will recognize as author?

 

Edited February 3, 20222 yr by bradl

Interestingly I enabled some advanced editor and it then let me pick any member from a dropdown. So that's great. Next hurdle, setting the forum to post in.

Well I managed to somehow bumble my way through and get it working. For the Forum issue I used the Custom option and inserted the forum slug (e.g., 62-contact-form-feedback) as a hidden form field and lo, a post was created. Mark as solved 🙂 

Edited February 4, 20222 yr by bradl

Excellent to hear. 🙂 

8 hours ago, bradl said:

Interestingly I enabled some advanced editor and it then let me pick any member from a dropdown. So that's great. Next hurdle, setting the forum to post in.

 Do you see any errors in your system log?

Many, similar to these:

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#0 /var/www/html/106152/system/Node/Model.php(1093): IPS\Patterns\_ActiveRecord::load(42)
#1 /var/www/html/106152/system/Node/Model.php(1110): IPS\Node\_Model->parent()
#2 /var/www/html/106152/system/Content/ClubContainer.php(406): IPS\Node\_Model->parents()
#3 /var/www/html/106152/applications/forums/sources/Forum/Forum.php(1817): IPS\forums\_Forum->parents()
#4 /var/www/html/106152/system/Api/PaginatedResponse.php(110): IPS\forums\_Forum->apiOutput(NULL)
#5 /var/www/html/106152/system/Dispatcher/Api.php(335): IPS\Api\_PaginatedResponse->getOutput()
#6 /var/www/html/106152/api/index.php(11): IPS\Dispatcher\_Api->run()
#7 {main}