FreeForm:Count is supposed to filter by author_id and the filters (parameters) are supposed to be cumulative.

But I can’t make it find entries for the same form that have ‘Open’ status and authored only by the logged-in member.

Here’s the code I’m using:

What do I get? I get a count of every open-status entry. I know (by testing) that the {logged_in_member_id} is correct. I know that the count of open-status entries is correct. But there is no way I can find to get both “open” and “authored by the logged-in member”

Is FreeForm:Count working for anyone else?

PS: I think it would be a great idea to put the"author_id" parameter in the Freeform:Entries tag. That would pretty much eliminate the need for a FreeForm:Count tag, in my view.

You should probably try:

Notice the quotations around the {logged_in_member_id} variable

Thanks Pie Man, but this makes not the slightest difference on my set-up (EE 1.6.1 and FF 2.5.9).

Quoted or not the ‘author_id={logged_in_member_id}’ parameter does not filter for the logged_in member alone.

Do you have it working as expected?

Best,

Peter

This is not yet a feature for Freeform, according to the Documentation:
http://www.solspace.com/docs/entry/freeform_25_entries_tag/#parameters

Sorry for setting you in the wrong direction
I’ll add this as a feature request

Hi PieMan,

As you say, ‘author_id’ is not a parameter in the FreeForm:entries tag. But the problem I refer to is with the FreeForm:count tag, where it IS listed as a parameter. I don’t think it works there.

I apologize for that

Well, the parameter seems to work fine when manually entering an Author ID, but does not seem to support the {logged_in_member_id} variable.

I’ll let the developers know, as even if this feature is not yet implemented, it definately makes sense for it to be.

Thanks Pie Man. No need for apologies. I am grateful for your help.

Best wishes,

Peter

Hi Pie Man,

Just to help others who might be in the same predicament, here’s a little piece of PHP that will perform COUNT by ‘logged_in_member_id’. Where you would use {count} inside {freeform:count} tags just echo the value of a variable such

You fill-in the value of this variable with a small piece of PHP included in the page after you have used EE to check that you have a logged-in member i.e. between the {if logged_in} {/if } tags. Here’s the code I’m using:

Hope this helps. No guarantees… naturally :->.