What I’d like to be able to do is for a member to enter data into a FreeForm form, and then immediately and *privately* be able to view that entered data on a personal member page.  For example, the member enters a note to himself via FreeForm, receives e-mail notification of said note, then can immediately review the note on his own private personalized members page.

The two approaches to this I’ve come up with are:

1. Somehow pass the FreeForm data to a SAEF weblog entry automatically (I need to use FreeForm because of the notify function).

2. Use a FreeForm Entries tag with some sort of {author_id="CURRENT_USER"} parameter… which if I’m not mistaken doesn’t exist yet?

Are either of the two approaches possible?  Is there a different way to accomplish this that I haven’t thought of?

Using the send_user_email="yes” parameter will allow you to have a copy sent to the member…
To then display a template that shows their “notes”, there currently isn’t an “author” parameter yet.... though I wonder if as a temporary workaround would be to do something like this:

Or, come to think of it, you could set the Freeform Form to look like this:

Then pull the entries the same way
No guarantee these methods work

Hi Pie Man, thanks for the super quick response!  I guess I’ll go ahead and put an author_id feature request in for “pro”.

I’ve tried the second way, but unfortunately the form_name parameter doesn’t appear to parse the {member_id} in the freeform:entries tag.  I do currently have it set so that when a member submits a form, they create their own freeform form_name, but it’s a no go with the entries tag for some reason.

The conditional method as entered doesn’t seem to be working—I may try mucking around a bit more with conditionals and see if I can’t find a way to do it.  Thanks for the inspiration!

Does the {segment_3} variable work… with a Segment in the URL of course

Hmm, I actually don’t know what that means. 
What is the segment_3 variable exactly? (please pardon my ignorance)

The Segment variables parse as what is in the URL…

So for example, in this URL:

http://www.yoursite.com/apple/pie/17

{segment_1} will parse as apple
{segment_2} will parse as pie
{segment_3} will parse as 17

The idea here is that if your URL looks similar to that, you can pull data or create conditionals based on what is in the URL.

If the member ID is in the URL… let say 17 in this case, then if you place {segment_3} into your template, it will parse as “17”

Aha, I see!  Thank you for the clarification.

I’d rather keep the member ID out of the URL, because the page is supposed to be a private page that is tailored to each individual member.  I don’t want other members typing in URL’s and getting at sensitive informaiton.  Still, it’s something worth noting for future reference!

Looking through the archives, I saw a use of PHP and database query that may be able to accomplish the task for the time being.  It’s not ideal, but it may tide me over until pro is released (hopefully soon)

Moblogging the user note in, then, EE has an author filter. Gotta run.