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Can future users add entries to a form?

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  1. reviewandreact
    Member

    I am a teacher creating a book review site for students at my school. The forms work perfectly when having students submit original book reviews. The forms then create a new post that has all the book's information, a cover image, plot details, etc.

    We'd like this to be able to be a collaborative and ongoing process where books get more information over time. Is it possible for a future student to add details to the book on the existing post without filling out a new form or just editing the post? Ideally, we'd like a user to be able to bring up the original form and add to it at a future date. Then, when they submit, the new information is on the existing page.

    Is this possible? I can explain more if this is confusing.

    Thank you for your help.

    Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday July 18, 2012 | Permalink

  2. David Peralty

    This is something that many people have tried to do. You are basically looking to create an add-on that lists previous entries, allow one to be selected and the details from that entry to be populated in the form. Then the post updated rather than a new post created in WordPress. And despite being easy to lay out the requirements, the actual code is complex.

    It isn't within the feature set of Gravity Forms, but people have done this before, it requires a great deal of custom coding and I recommend hiring a developer to accomplish this if you aren't intermediate or above in your understanding of PHP.

    Gravity Forms is really more focused on information collection, and not so much WordPress post management.

    Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday July 18, 2012 | Permalink

  3. reviewandreact
    Member

    Thank you for such a quick reply.

    I have some students who may be able to help with coding, and I've got an understanding of PHP, so I can work at this. Do you know of any sites specifically that have done this?

    Thank you.

    Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday July 18, 2012 | Permalink

  4. David Peralty

    Here is a plugin someone made relating to editing entries that might be a good basis to begin with: http://software.troydesign.it/php/wordpress/adminsingle-gravity-forms-add-on.html

    And then there is this one to edit posts that might also help in creating what you need:
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-update-post/

    Neither of these is being offered as a complete solution, but it should help get you closer.

    Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday July 18, 2012 | Permalink

  5. reviewandreact
    Member

    Thank you so much. We'll get to work on trying these things.

    I very much appreciate your quick and thorough help.

    Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday July 18, 2012 | Permalink

  6. David Peralty

    Not a problem. Please let us know of any successes or issues you have in completing this. It is something many users want to have, and something we hope to add into the core at some point in the future.

    Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday July 18, 2012 | Permalink