https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populating-forms-from-excel-or-access Gravity Support Forums Topic: Pre-Populating Forms from Excel or Access en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:36:11 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populating-forms-from-excel-or-access#post-15036 Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:37:04 +0000 Carl Hancock 15036@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Gravity Forms only stores data in it's own database tables. It isn't designed to store database in 3rd party tables or externally.</p> <p>If you need to store data in a different location you would have to use the gform_post_submission hook and write custom code to store the field values in your external database. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populating-forms-from-excel-or-access#post-15032 Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:46:48 +0000 ssteinerX 15032@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have almost the same question, maybe I can make it a bit clearer what I'm trying to do.</p> <p>I have an existing database table.</p> <p>I want to design a form for entering/updating data in it.</p> <p>1&gt; Can I generate a form from the database structure?<br /> 2&gt; Is there something in the product that will automatically handle the POST of the form and stuff it into the database from which the form was generated.</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>S </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populating-forms-from-excel-or-access#post-5398 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:26:40 +0000 Chris Hajer 5398@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Do you mean you want to submit the form (preferably in some automated fashion) so all your existing members are part of your new online database, created by Gravity Forms? Or do you want to add this data to the form some how? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populating-forms-from-excel-or-access#post-5354 Mon, 10 May 2010 10:33:05 +0000 AnandRao 5354@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have created a membership form for my non-profit. I want to pre-populate these forms with existing data. I have an Access database and my hosting provider as mySQL.</p> <p>How do i pre-populate the forms using my Access database? Would appreciate any help. </p>