Allowing users access to form entries

Is is possible to allow a specified group of users access to the form entries without allowing access to admin controls?

This is great.

Now is it possible to download data based on conditional logic? For instance, can a user select to only export entries that have a specific trait, such as state="WA". Or would I need to build this form myself.

I was checking out the Members plugin, and according to the details at the link provided, it does not currently support Wordpress 3.1 (only up to 2.8.4). Has anyone experienced issues with this plugin or is there an alternative I should use with the most current version of Wordpress?

Thanks a lot, LOVE gravity forms so far!

I am researching creating a Business directory with GF for a community site http://www.foster.vic.au to replace the currently very buggy "Business Manager" plugin. So.. I really need to give logged in users the ability to edit their listings.

So have I understand correctly that using the Members plugin, the user can only edit their already submitted form data via the backend? If there is a front end solution for this, could someone please give me a heads up?

And one more...

Carl, in your reply above I can't make sense of "You can then edit the role the users you want to grant access to are part of and check the Gravity Forms capabilities when editing the role that you want to give them access to." - though I've read it 3 times. Could you please elaborate?

BTW loving GF very much!!

Thank you Carl, very useful!

I'll look into how to setup post editing from the front end (anyone recommend a plugin for this?) and making a custom post type for the Business Listings, and keep categories separated from normal posts.

I think using 'Post custom field' GF form field might be the way to go for standard info (tel number etc) to keep it separated from body text etc. Not sure how the user will edit this in the front end yet... anyone have some advice?

Is there a way to restrict a user to only be able to edit their own entries? I would like users to be able to edit their own entries, and unfortunately, this cannot be a post because there are a lot of custom fields that need to be collected.

How can I display a list of entries created by the currently logged in user, and then allow them to edit those entries?

Carl, one thing that would be really helpful in future updates for my clients would be that logged in user without the capability to edit forms would not see the edit forms button in the forms menu.

Hi Brian - I'm just another GF user but have been deploying GF on multiple sites since shortly after it was first released. I'm not entirely clear on what you're trying to do, but it sounds like you:

- are setting up a pay to post mechanism (doable with the PayPal Add-On); and
- would like a user (who has presumably paid to post) to be able to logon and see only his/her paid-for posts.

If that's right, you can achieve that with a combination of Peter's Logon Redirect plugin and creating a dynamic link in the navigation for "My Posts" which only appears when the user is logged in. This is the code I've used in the past to achieve the latter (which in my case I added to the theme's header.php file alongside the existing horizontal nav list):

<?php global $user_login; if($user_login) { ?><li><a href="http://yoursite.com/?author=<?php echo $user_ID; ?>/" >My Posts</a></li><?php } ?>

In essence, the redirect plugin can be used to take the user straight back to the homepage (or other designated page) upon logging in and the code above can be used to create a link to the user's posts. I've not tried adding the code above to the entry for the redirect in the backend/admin. Perhaps that would work. Come to think of it, it seems that that's what you're after. Might be worth a try.

Richard,

That is extremely helpful. Your assumptions were correct. However, I've inserted the code you posted into a PHP widget on my sidebar and when I click it (while logged in as an author I use for testing) I get this resulting url: http://www.testmymessage.com/?author=/ with a 404 error.

Any further help is greatly appreciated!