Playa field not outputting expected value in zoo visitor update form

Question

I'm trying to implement Chosen as a front to a Playa-field in my Zoo Visitor channel. Entering data isn't a problem, but obviously I want to have the currently selected entry selected as default. This wasn't behaving as expected, so I stripped everything down to the following bit of code:

{exp:zoo_visitor:update_form
    return='profiel'
    class='custom profile'
    allowed_groups='7'
}
    {member_employer var_prefix="employer"}{employer:entry_id}{/member_employer}
{/exp:zoo_visitor:update_form}

When I load this template, it outputs 810, which isn't even an actual entry. When I output the value in another template between {exp:zoo_visitor:details} tags it outputs the expected entry_id of 243. I've tried removing the var_prefix (which was only added later for debugging to be safe anyway). Any idea what's going on here?

Answer 1

The update form works just the same as a Channel Form. You are trying to use tag syntax that works inside a channel entries tag, but that won't work inside a form. Either use {field:your_playa_fieldname} or if you really want to fetch them separately, you will have to resort to using a channel entries tag inside an embed. Also have a look at this thread http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/support/zoo-visitor/viewthread/10501#37493

Cheers, Nico