Issue with older thread regarding gift subscriptions

Hello.
About a year ago i asked for a way to automate gift subscriptions between members.

Krileon kindly provided an excellent solution that can be found here #328607

I followed step by step Krileon's tutorial and everything seems working pretty fine except one thing.

When the gift plan is ordered through paypal, the plan's integration -> CB Fields cb_gifts (integer field) is not updated (+1).
When the gift plan is activated from backend, the plan's integration -> CB Fields cb_gifts (integer field) is updated (+1) perfectly.

So when the gift plan is activated through paypal, a certain field is not updated through plan's integration -> CB Fields!
Can we use an auto action to update this field and how will this auto action be?

Can you please advise?

Thank you.

Shouldn't matter how they pay. My guess is maybe another store is happening causing the cb_gifts value to be overridden. Do you have any auto actions acting on CBSubs payment triggers? If so try turning on Reload User under Parameters for those auto actions so it has an up to date user object before it stores or use the store directly functionality for field actions (should be on by default).

As for your question regarding CB Auto Actions yes you can use it to update cb_gifts if you wanted to. Is this a subscription plan or a merchandise plan as that'll make a difference in how to set this up.

Thank you for your reply Krileon.

As for your question regarding CB Auto Actions yes you can use it to update cb_gifts if you wanted to. Is this a subscription plan or a merchandise plan as that'll make a difference in how to set this up.

This is a subscription plan.
 

You can use the below in CB Auto Actions to implement any auto action you like on plan activate and deactivate states in that case.

Plan Active
Global
Triggers: onCPayUserStateChange
User: Automatic
Access: Everybody
Conditions
Condition 1
Field: Custom > Value
Custom Value: [var3]
Operator: Equal To
Value: PLAN_ID_HERE
Condition 2
Field: Custom > Value
Custom Value: [var2]
Operator: Equal To
Value: A

Plan Expired
Global
Triggers: onCPayUserStateChange
User: Automatic
Access: Everybody
Conditions
Condition 1
Field: Custom > Value
Custom Value: [var3]
Operator: Equal To
Value: PLAN_ID_HERE
Condition 2
Field: Custom > Value
Custom Value: [var2]
Operator: Not Equal To
Value: A

Be sure to replace PLAN_ID_HERE with the actual id of your plan as found in CBSubs > Plans. In your case you'd just use the Field action and adjust the fields value however you like.