https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moving-the-add-notes-box-in-16 Gravity Support Forums Topic: Moving the Add Notes Box in 1.6 en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:39:22 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moving-the-add-notes-box-in-16#post-40298 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:39:10 +0000 David Smith 40298@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Glad to help. :) </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moving-the-add-notes-box-in-16#post-40293 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:45:56 +0000 mark.dillon 40293@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p><strong>Thank you for the explanation, David!</strong> Having the correct code is great—but knowing why my code <em>wasn’t</em> correct is even more helpful. Resolved! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moving-the-add-notes-box-in-16#post-40291 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:18:56 +0000 David Smith 40291@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The problem is both textareas are named "new_note" and the original textarea in the left column is actually loaded lower in the page so when the page is submitted, the empty value takes precedence.</p> <p>You could change the name of your textarea and then update another bit of the core to save your custom field as well; however, for the sake of keeping your customzation consolidated in a single spot (making re-adding this for future versions nice and easy), I think it is easier to update the original textarea with the value of the new textarea on submit.</p> <p><a href="http://pastie.org/2827143" rel="nofollow">http://pastie.org/2827143</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/moving-the-add-notes-box-in-16#post-40257 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:42:18 +0000 mark.dillon 40257@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>On the entry detail screen I would like to add a <strong>Notes</strong> section in GF 1.6 on the right hand side— basically to make it match the notes section in GF 1.5.</p> <p>I placed the following code between lines 367 and 379 in the entry_detail.php file:</p> <pre><code>&lt;!-- =Begin Custom Notes Section EDITED by MD --&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;postbox&quot;&gt; &lt;h3 style=&quot;cursor:default;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;Notes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;inside&quot;&gt; &lt;textarea name=&quot;new_note&quot; style=&quot;width:100%; height:100px; margin-bottom:4px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;?php $note_button = &#39;&lt;input type=&quot;submit&quot; name=&quot;add_note&quot; value=&quot;&#39; . __(&quot;Add Note&quot;, &quot;gravityforms&quot;) . &#39;&quot; class=&quot;button&quot; style=&quot;width:60px;&quot; onclick=&quot;jQuery(\&#39;#action\&#39;).val(\&#39;add_note\&#39;);&quot;/&gt;&#39;; echo apply_filters(&quot;gform_addnote_button&quot;, $note_button); ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;!-- =End Custom Notes Section EDITED by MD --&gt;</code></pre> <p>As expected this code adds a new note, but each note created is <em>empty</em>. </p>