gform_helpscout_tags

• Description
• Usage
• Parameters
• Examples
• Placement
• Source Code

Description

This filter is used to dynamically alter the tags being created for a Help Scout conversation.

Usage

Applies to all forms:

add_filter( 'gform_helpscout_tags', 'your_function_name', 10, 4 );

Applies to a specific form:

add_filter( 'gform_helpscout_tags_4', 'your_function_name', 10, 4 );

Parameters

Examples

This example retrieves the license type a user has associated to their user meta and adds it as a tag.

add_filter( 'gform_helpscout_tags', 'add_license_tag', 10, 4 );

function add_license_tag( $tags, $feed, $entry, $form ) {
    global $current_user;
    get_currentuserinfo();

    $license_type = get_user_meta( $current_user->ID, 'license_type', 'No License' );

    $tags[] = $license_type;

    return $tags;
}

Placement

This code can be used in the functions.php file of the active theme, a custom functions plugin, a custom add-on, or with a code snippets plugin.

See also the PHP section in this article: Where Do I Put This Code?

Source Code

gf_apply_filters( 'gform_helpscout_tags', $form['id'], $tags, $feed, $entry, $form );

This filter is located in GFHelpScout::process_feed() in class-gf-helpscout.php.