https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/three-things-i-was-surprised-to-find-missing Gravity Support Forums Topic: Three things I was surprised to find missing en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:14:52 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/three-things-i-was-surprised-to-find-missing#post-172495 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:16:58 +0000 jason_rogers 172495@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Well, thanks i guess although a rather contradictory response. </p> <p>There is a lot of functionality in gravity forms for having it populate a post (ie so we can present data collected by the forms to the public). It is in fact why i chose it over some of the others. So I'm not quite sure I agree with your statement that people don't want to display data. They obviously do, and you obviously support it.</p> <p>Thanks for the filter reference. However a simple API to say load, store, create an entry would have been pretty powerful. I guess i will peek inside and see if just rolling my own implementation makes more sense.</p> <p>Thanks for the quick response. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/three-things-i-was-surprised-to-find-missing#post-172486 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:01:21 +0000 David Peralty 172486@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Here is our developer documentation part:<br /> <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Developer_Docs" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Developer_Docs</a></p> <p>We have focused on collecting data. You can export data to a CSV. And front end data display is only done through WordPress posts. Most people collecting data don't want it shown to the public. All my best! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/three-things-i-was-surprised-to-find-missing#post-172485 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:59:40 +0000 David Peralty 172485@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Yes, hooks and filters in our documentation are the best way to do things with Gravity Forms. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/three-things-i-was-surprised-to-find-missing#post-172480 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:43:58 +0000 jason_rogers 172480@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>With regards to 1&amp;2). I found an addon (<a href="http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gravity-forms-addons" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gravity-forms-addons</a>) which does somewhat what i need for display and edit ( I cant get it to work but I think its a few tweeks away).</p> <p>With regards to 3 it looks like im limited to hooks? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/three-things-i-was-surprised-to-find-missing#post-172450 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:01:28 +0000 jason_rogers 172450@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>So surprised that I hope I am just failing to find it as having just paid for it I am approaching regret:</p> <p>1) I can see no way to pass an entry id on the query string to prepopulate a form (to allow the ability to edit an entry under the same UI they created it).</p> <p>2) I can see no easy way to use the data gathered by forms on my site...no view...no api...no shortcodes for displaying a list....no nothing really. What is the point of data I cannot mine?</p> <p>3) I can see no API documentation to add such features if they are use cases somehow only critical to me.</p> <p>Without such tools I am going to have to write a lot of glue to bridge this data.</p> <p>Thanks for any feedback; form creation and usage has been rather pleasant and I hope there are easy answers to these questions (that sort that make me look sill for not rtfm). </p>