Gravity Support Forums Topic: Build and submit a form invisibly with submit event outside of form

Gravity Support Forums Topic: Build and submit a form invisibly with submit event outside of form https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/build-and-submit-a-form-invisibly-with-submit-event-outside-of-form Gravity Support Forums Topic: Build and submit a form invisibly with submit event outside of form en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:12:13 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 <![CDATA[Search]]> q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php komododigital on "Build and submit a form invisibly with submit event outside of form" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/build-and-submit-a-form-invisibly-with-submit-event-outside-of-form#post-95616 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:12:32 +0000 komododigital 95616@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Thanks Dave. Yes it is a bit odd. We were looking to find a way of logging details of each download, but without pestering the user each time they downloaded a voucher. The capturing of user data was essential to the process. We figured that the best way was to write directly into the DB, with some custom PHP script. It basically does the action we are after ( on downloads 2 and above ) so long as the data from download 1 is stored in a session variable. We could have built a completely bespoke thing for this, but Gravity Forms so elegantly handled 85% of the journey, we wanted to keep that mechanic and build upon it. David Peralty on "Build and submit a form invisibly with submit event outside of form" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/build-and-submit-a-form-invisibly-with-submit-event-outside-of-form#post-94909 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:35:38 +0000 David Peralty 94909@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ I have been puzzling over it since I saw your original message, and I can't think of any way of doing that. It probably could be done, but would need some extensive customization to make happen. I mean, the user should be able to submit a form as many times as they want, so I guess I don't really understand the issue, except for the building/hiding a form. All my best. komododigital on "Build and submit a form invisibly with submit event outside of form" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/build-and-submit-a-form-invisibly-with-submit-event-outside-of-form#post-94742 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:40:58 +0000 komododigital 94742@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ I've figured out that the best way to do this is to write directly to the database table, which is what I've done and made work. I'd like to know if the solution I was originally after will work or not. komododigital on "Build and submit a form invisibly with submit event outside of form" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/build-and-submit-a-form-invisibly-with-submit-event-outside-of-form#post-94388 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:44:54 +0000 komododigital 94388@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Hi This is a weird one, granted, I want to know if there's a way of submitting a form based on an action of something else on the screen. I'll try to detail it.... 1) A user on my site clicks a button to download a voucher. I call a Gravity Form first, to capture their details. On submission I set a session variable, and the user is able to download their voucher. 2) Within this session I the user wants to download another voucher. Rather than ask them to fill in a form again, I build a form invisibly on the page, and populate it using my stored session variables. The bit I can't do... 3) On clicking to download this second voucher, the form is sent and I log the details in the gravity forms database. I've searched around, but I can't find any pointers on this. Can it even be done? Many thanks in advance