Automatic Sign-Up Page Generating a New Web Page or Post

Hi There,

I just purchased the basic Gravity Forms option a few days ago. I'm trying to build a sign-up form for my live bands/live music website (affordaband.co.uk), where instead of new bands emailing me from my website, instead they can click on a sign-up link on my site, and input all their live band details there - band name, biography, photos, mp3's, video clips etc.. I need them to input the data, then click "SUBMIT", where I get an alert that says PUBLISH, and then I can approve, or make changes, I click PUBLISH, and it becomes a nice formatted page (or post) added to a certain area on my Wordpress site. But my webguy can't figure it out, and I've got no chance. Please help!!!

Thanks Heaps,
Stu

Hey David,

I have the same question as Stu, but I can not see any Post Template setting is missing.
What I do see is a Post Format setting, but that is to create a blog post instead of a page.
It makes me select video, quote, link etc. But I can not select page template file.

How can I get those selections, did I do something wrong in other setings somewhere? I tried to find out, but without results so far. Can you advice?

Hi David, do I need a plugin to make them show up? For I can't see them.
Or is Post Format and Post Template the same thing?

Ah ok. Because of the term 'template I assumed it was an option to create a 'page'. Sorry for that.
So it does select a type of blog post, like 'video', 'quote' , etc.

I was looking for a way to create a page (not a post) in a certain page-template like 'full width' etc. (For I think I do have more control over the way the page will look like) and I want the form entries to get in that page design. Is that possible or is it not something Gravityform can do? How can I get the best results?

Purpose:
Maybe I can better explain what the purpose of the website and my purchase of Gravityforms license is: I want to create a website where users can submit a form with their name, a numeric value, and a qoute/statement. Additional also their e-mail address, but that does not show up in the created page. This created page is showing the user's name, numeric value and qoute. (And some other stuff but that has nothing to do with Gravityforms) User can not edit the page, (no user registration involved)

What I already did:
After submitting, the user is directed to his created page (blog post for now). and user receive an email with link to that post. I managed the email and directing to a created blogpost.

Wat is missing:
It is still a blog post that looks like a blog post and only contains the title of the post. The other entries are missing.

Can you help me with this question?

Hello. I am posting on behalf of my Wife's account. I was able to figure out the Create content template. I added a "Body Field" under the "Post Fields" section and converted the other fields to "custom fields" under post Fields (except for the Image fields under post fields). Then I used the insert merge tag combo box to add different merge tags like David mentioned above. When a post is created it looks at two fields: Post Title and Post Body. Then I formatted the merge tags and added some text to make it more readable in the post. That looks like this:

Name: {Name :19}
City, State, Country: {Where do you live?:24}
Website: {Website :25}
{Picture 1:14:medium:left}

The {Name:19} is what was added when I added the Name field from insert merge tag. I hope this helps out. What I would normally do is add screenshots or do a quick video to explain this if I was documenting this feature at my job.

Wow, that works. Now it creates pages instead. But there is no selection in page template yet.
Lets say I want to have those entries end up in a page using the page template called: template-my-form.php

How to add that in this code? This would really help me out.

That code works great. :-) Thank you very much.

And another bug in the code: It stops sending the notification email....
I tested it out and using the previous code block the e-mail notification is working again.....
So for now I just changed the style of the default page.php file, and use the previous code to create a page:

add_filter("gform_post_data", "change_post_type", 10, 2);
function change_post_type($post_data, $form){
    //only change post type on form id 5
    if($form["id"] != 5)
       return $post_data;

    $post_data["post_type"] = "page";
    return $post_data;
}

Hi Chris, maybe it would be nice for other users to know how to generate a page and determine what page template to be used. For I use a portfolio theme (with portfolio template on home page) I do nut need to use the default page.php for other purposes. So I can work with the first code. But maybe maybe other users who bump into this topic would be helped, but then I guess they need to reply with their request. ;-)

Thank you very much for your help! Gravity forms, and the support forum, exceeds other premium plugin customer services. Keep up the good work.

Hi Guys,

I'm the original poster of this thread, I mentioned all my requirements in my original post above. I'm a N00b, the post was about 3 weeks ago - I don't have a clue what to do with any of this. David gave me some nice help to start with, but having read through the comments of much cleverer people above, who are far more coherent with any of this than me, it's obvious I'm not going to succeed here. Is there a way to refund the Gravity Forms purchase I made last month? I'm just going to have to scale down my aspirations to the usual N00b level. Please let me know. Stu.

Hi Chris,

Thank you so much - a light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak! I'll try to be brief:

Generally, I just want a data capture form that can transfer the captured data from my website's live bands sign-up page for my rock/pop bands, and auto generate the same-looking live bands page as the ones already on my website, so I can exponentially populate more band pages on my site (AffordaBand.co.uk) without physically creating a page myself each time for each band submission! So I need GF to send me an alert of some kind when a form is submitted, but then:

I need to then be able to verify the submission, by clicking a "PUBLISH", or "APPROVE", or "EDIT" (for example) button, and have the form then automatically create/publish a new band page that is exactly the same as my current band pages on my site - like this one:

http://affordaband.co.uk/fashion/

I get so many e-mail submissions from new bands, looking for artist representation, that I can't keep up. Can Gravity Forms do this - is it designed to accurately populate a site with new pages, to save me having to manually build each page myself?
David did very kindly create a form on my Wordpress site of how it should be, for me to experiment with and try to finish it off, but I'm not a tech & it’s over my head. I can PM you my WordPress cred's if you'd like to see it?

"The answer my friend.. is blowin' in the wind..". One month later and almost bankrupt, the answer MUST BE blowin' in the wind - cos it certainly ain't comin' from this Gravity Forms """Support""" team.

B.S.