kyounger Gravity Support Forums User Favorites: kyounger en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:46:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/hooks-filters-documentation-custom-field-update-concept#post-4025 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:01:14 +0000 Carl Hancock 4025@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The documentation for the API hooks needs to be overhauled. There are a lot of hooks that need to be documented. We will be working towards doing this.</p> <p>If you want to read up on how to dynamically populate a drop down, here is a thread that touches on that subject that includes code snippets:</p> <p><a href="http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text" rel="nofollow">http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/hooks-filters-documentation-custom-field-update-concept#post-4012 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:29:28 +0000 Idealien 4012@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>When was the last time the documentation for GF had a thorough review? This post on <a href="http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/new-hooks-and-fliters" rel="nofollow">hooks / filters in 1.3.9</a> mentions a new hook not covered in the expected <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/hooks-and-filters/" rel="nofollow">documentation on hooks and filters page</a>. It might save some questions in the forums if each documentation page had atleast a last updated on, accurate as of version X type of detail.</p> <p>My primary question is how one can pre-populate values into a drop-down or other type of field based on the contents of a custom field / post.</p> <p>Simple example: Classified Ads or Auction</p> <ul> <li>Category view displays all posts.</li> <li>Click on a post and custom post template (<a href="http://idealienstudios.com/projects/ice" rel="nofollow">Idealien Category Enhancements</a>)</li> <li>The template calls get_post_meta to pull (price, status, other custom fields, etc)</li> <li>User submits form with their new information</li> <li>Through a post-submission of form hook, the appropriate custom fields would be updated</li> </ul> <p>Yes? No? I'm Crazy? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/apiset-of-hooks-for-defining-new-form-field-types#post-3421 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:22:21 +0000 Anonymous 3421@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>FWIW, I think adding APIs should be a software company's highest priority. Doing that allows 3rd party support to form around your solution which is extremely valuable from a marketing and usefulness perspective. Plus adding an API keeps you from chasing so many feature requests and lets us do it "self-serve" and "peer-to-peer" in many (most?) cases.</p> <p>Venture capitalist Fred Wilson from avc.com says "Do one thing, do it extremely well, and then add an API to let others extend what you offer." (I'm paraphrasing, of course.) </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-custom-field-values-without-having-to-use-ids#post-3415 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:59:39 +0000 Carl Hancock 3415@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Very nice. It's great to see people thinking outside the box and leverage some of the capabilities the plugin has from a customization standpoint using hooks with php and jquery.</p> <p>We do have plans to add value/label capabilities as well as field calculations in the future.</p> <p>Just remember that Gravity Forms is still in it's infancy, we still have a long journey ahead of us as we continue to add new features and improve existing features.</p> <p>Thanks for sharing! If you would be willing to write this up as a guest blog post, give some background to what you are doing and write up a detailed blog post/tutorial, we would be glad to post it on the blog and make it available to users who want to read up on how to do this. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-custom-field-values-without-having-to-use-ids#post-3414 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:00:04 +0000 wunderdojo 3414@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Something like this may be posted elsewhere, but as I haven't found it, figured I'd post in case it helps someone else. </p> <p>I needed to use custom values for some drop down menus on a form I'm doing for a client. This is my first time using Gravity Forms and I found here in the forums that you have to do a bit of coding to accomplish this -- the built in functionality is to make the value and the label of a field be the same. So if you need option 1 value='1" and the displayed value = First Option, you've go to do some work.</p> <p>The solution posted here in the forums requires you to get the field ID of the field you want to use custom values for by looking at the source code of the form. No big deal if you're only modifying one or two fields, but I have the drop down repeated potentially up to 10 times on the form.</p> <p>The work around I came up with is to add a custom css class to the form field. In this case, I have a dropdown menu that I gave a css class of "customvalues". I then use that css class to access the fields and use the custom values:</p> <p><code><br /> add_filter('gform_pre_render_1', 'fieldvals');<br /> function fieldvals($form){<br /> items = array();<br /> $items[] = array('text' =&gt; "-Displayed Value 1", "value" =&gt; '10');<br /> $items[] = array('text' =&gt; "Displayed Value 2", "value" =&gt; '20');<br /> $items[] = array('text' =&gt; "Displayed Value 3", "value" =&gt; '30');<br /> foreach($form["fields"] as &amp;$field)<br /> if($field["cssClass"] == "customvalues"){<br /> $field["type"] = "select";<br /> $field["choices"] = $items;<br /> }<br /> return $form;<br /> }<br /> </code></p> <p>If you want to do any dynamic updating on the form, you can then access those dropdowns using jquery and the same css class, like so :</p> <p><code><br /> jQuery(document).ready(function($jq) {<br /> $jq(".customvalues select").change(function(){<br /> $jq(".customvalues option:selected").each(function(i){<br /> alert($jq(this).val());<br /> });<br /> });<br /> });<br /> </code></p> <p>I'm using it to dynamically calculate totals based on membership options selected on a member sign up form and display the running total. The example above just alerts the value of the selected options. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/apiset-of-hooks-for-defining-new-form-field-types#post-3410 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:17:59 +0000 Carl Hancock 3410@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>It's really difficult to say. We work on things based on need and priority. We have a laundry list of features we plan on adding to the plugin that based on user feedback rank as a higher priority. It will be this year, but it's hard to tell you an exact release version or date at this time. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/apiset-of-hooks-for-defining-new-form-field-types#post-3404 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:43:26 +0000 Anonymous 3404@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Cool! </p> <p>I know you hate these kind of questions, but... when? :) Approximate is fine.</p> <p>Next week?<br /> Next month?<br /> Next quarter?<br /> Next year? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/apiset-of-hooks-for-defining-new-form-field-types#post-3394 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:29:28 +0000 Carl Hancock 3394@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Currently there is not an API hook for adding custom field types. We do plan on adding this in the future. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/apiset-of-hooks-for-defining-new-form-field-types#post-3373 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:46:12 +0000 Anonymous 3373@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>While you've got lots of field types and that's a great thing about Gravity Forms you can never meet everyone's specialized needs so I assumed you'd have an API/set of hooks to allow a developer to define a new field type but I've looked all over your website and even in the code and best I can tell there isn't one.</p> <p>If I missed it can you please point me to the docs and if it isn't there any chance you could add this sooner than later? Much thanks in advance. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/ajax-for-submission#post-1515 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:29:45 +0000 Alex Cancado 1515@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Kenny,<br /> AJAX form submission is not currently supported. We are not sure that will make it into the core, but it would certainly make a nice add-on. If I were to implement this add-on using our hooks/API, I would do the following.<br /> 1- Use the gform_submit_button filter to output a button that does not causes a postback, but instead calls a javascript function that will perform the AJAX call passing all the inputs in the form.<br /> 2- Add a WP AJAX action (i.e. add_action('wp_ajax_submit_form', 'submit_form'); )<br /> 3- In the submit_form() function, call GFFormDisplay::validate() and GFFormDisplay::handle_submission() to help you with validation and saving the data<br /> 4- Depending on the result of validate(), display the error message or the confirmation message</p> <p>These are obviously over simplified steps, but should give you a step in the right direction. If you do decide to tackle this add-on and have some questions, I will be glad to help. You may also want to talk to Zack Katz (<a href="http://www.seodenver.com/gravity-forms-addons/" rel="nofollow">http://www.seodenver.com/gravity-forms-addons/</a>) as he has been writing add-ons for Gravity Forms and AJAX submission is in the list of the ones he is interested in writing</p> <p>Thanks for the support and good luck! </p>