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Change field type?

  1. kevinmcgillivray
    Member

    Hi, there. My client set up a form and used a single line text field for what should have been an email field. He's gathered a few days worth of data and now wants to set up notification. He can't though, since the field isn't actually an email field. I also don't want to delete the field and set up a new one because we'll lose the data already gathered.

    Is there a way to switch the field type to make it into an email field? I'm comfortable going to the database if that's the only way to solve the issue.

    Thanks!
    kcm

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday November 12, 2010 | Permalink
  2. I would backup your database before trying this just in case.
    Then, you will need to do the following:
    1- Export your existing form
    2- Open the XML and change the field type to "email"
    3- Import the form (it will create a new form)
    4- Go into the database and update the ID of the new form to match the ID of the old form. (tables wp_rg_form and wp_rg_form_meta)
    Before you can do that, you will need to update the ID of the existing form to some other value or delete the existing form.

    Posted 14 years ago on Saturday November 13, 2010 | Permalink