https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/order-form-with-quantities-showing-125-items Gravity Support Forums Topic: Order form, with quantities, showing 125 items en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:12:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/order-form-with-quantities-showing-125-items#post-200570 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:13:27 +0000 johnnyriss 200570@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks Chris,<br /> Ok. Given your response above, I'm not going to create form fields dynamically from Custom Posts anymore.<br /> Next question:<br /> I have 125 products, in 11 categories. So, in order to make the form more user-friendly for my client would it be possible to create 11 different forms in the GF admin area – one for each category – then compile and display them, or render them *into* one form with one submit button on one page?<br /> I've looked at a lot of the filters. But I'm not quite seeing how I might be able to do this.<br /> Maybe I could just filter out the form opening and closing tags completely, then I could hardcode one form opening and closing pair around my shortcodes? Is that possible?<br /> Again, with 125 menu items, a SINGLE form admin is cumbersome to navigate or revise, and often it seems like the form fields aren't updating properly when I create them. Sometimes I have to add descriptions several times before they actually stick.<br /> ANY suggestions you can provide are greatly appreciated!<br /> Thanks for your input. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/order-form-with-quantities-showing-125-items#post-192764 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:17:44 +0000 Chris Hajer 192764@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>This customization is beyond the support we can give in the support forums. You're on the right track with gform_pre_render. You're going to have to do everything before the form is rendered though. You might want to post this on our job board to solicit other input <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/forum/job-board" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/forum/job-board</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/order-form-with-quantities-showing-125-items#post-192379 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:08:32 +0000 johnnyriss 192379@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Greetings Chris,<br /> Thanks for the suggestions above.<br /> Quick background – I'm creating a menu for a catering company.<br /> After reading the above, I understand how the gform_pre_render filter works. And I was able to duplicate the example.<br /> However, since I need to create the entire form from my Custom Post Entries, I need to loop through the data earlier than the field choices in the examples provided.<br /> I know how to query to get the posts. But I don't know how to match the queried post data to the form elements/structure.<br /> Basically, here's my sitch: I'll have 10 categories, so it'll be something like,<br /> Foreach category, loop through the posts and display a form field for each post.<br /> From each post, I'll have title, description, price, and maybe another piece of data (added as custom field to my post) that I'll want to insert like "unit" – since some item prices on my menu will be "per person" while others will be "each." Those will just be a string, displayed so that customers understand what they're ordering.<br /> Anyway, I need each of the form fields to be a Product Field. Again, I don't know how to pair the form elements with the data from the custom posts. If anyone can point me in the right direction on this, that'd be awesome.<br /> Much thanks! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/order-form-with-quantities-showing-125-items#post-92164 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:48:06 +0000 Chris Hajer 92164@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <blockquote><p> 10 categories with total of 125 items<br /> Needs to have price and quantity box for each so that a customer can order multiples of 1 item.<br /> Summary should show total.<br /> Confirmation Email should be sent to customer specifying complete order and total.<br /> No eCommerce/PayPal or any payment needed. </p></blockquote> <p>This is all possible. Use product fields so that the total can be added automatically.</p> <p>For the rest, sounds like you need to dynamically populate your form. You need to look into the gform_pre_render filter. <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_pre_render" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_pre_render</a></p> <p>There is an example showing how to populate a drop down with posts from a certain category. You could use a similar process to populate your form from a custom post type. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/order-form-with-quantities-showing-125-items#post-92163 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:44:58 +0000 Chris Hajer 92163@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Moved to the regular support forums. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/order-form-with-quantities-showing-125-items#post-91174 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:54:24 +0000 johnnyriss 91174@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Greetings Gravity Formers,</p> <p>I assume GF can do what I need it to but I’m not sure how.</p> <p>I have a client who wants a menu order form.</p> <p>Details:<br /> 10 categories with total of 125 items<br /> Needs to have price and quantity box for each so that a customer can order multiples of 1 item.<br /> Summary should show total.<br /> Confirmation Email should be sent to customer specifying complete order and total.<br /> No eCommerce/PayPal or any payment needed.</p> <p>So, as mentioned, I assume GF can do this. My question is how?<br /> Can GF create a form by pulling form elements from a custom post type?</p> <p>Let’s say I create a custom post type called Menu Items.<br /> Each has a Title, Description, Category, and custom meta field called Price.</p> <p>Can a Gravity Form query all active Menu Items, sorted by category, each item showing a price, with a form field for quantity, and when user enters a quantity, the form tallies the total of the order, on submit the order is sent to admin, with confirmation to user.</p> <p>Please let me know. Thanks so much! </p>