I have a site that will allow users to review business and the individual professionals within those businesses. I have created a form that allows users to upload new businesses and individual professionals that work at those businesses. I would like for a user be able to come onto the site and upload a professional (that is not on the site, currently) and associate them with an existing business or the other way around.
Is this possible through Gravity Forms?
When a business is submitted the first time, what *is* the business? Is that a post? Or are you using a 3rd party add-on to create a directory?
The main entity is the business and then any number of individuals can be associated with the business?
Correct. When the business or professional is submitted, it will be a post. I want to know if there is a way to connect a professional (aka employee) to the business or the other way around. I'm not sure if you can use Gravity Forms for this.
Let's focus on creating a business page first. Assuming that works fine, how will the first professional be associated with the business? Are you storing that information as custom fields, attached to the post? If so, you can add meta information to existing posts, using a Gravity Form.
I guess I am wondering with the first form submission, the one that creates the business, what are you doing with the professional who is associated with that business?
Have you seen the third party Directory & Add-ons add on for Gravity Forms? It's designed to create a directory. I'm not sure if that is more along the lines of what you want or not. It was not created by Gravity Forms, but is available at the WordPress.org plugin repository:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-addons/
