I have been reading through the documentation, but I am brand new to Gravity Forms and sort of stuck at the moment. I am trying to figure out how to accomplish what I am looking for:
My form is at http://www.dlantern.com, under the menu headings Nominations -> Nominate Someone.
I am submitting nominations as posts, and have used the post title, body and tag fields etc., but there is also other data being entered. It works, and I get an "Entry" for each nomination, and I get a post in pending review...the notifications work, etc.
What I need to do is take some (not all) of the fields that end up in the Entry, or the notification Emails, and add them to the post body as text, transforming them a little bit on the way.
So, for example in this case, nominations have a nickname for the nominator and for the nominee to protect privacy, which I would like to the top of the post in a format like:
"Nominated by: JohnD90210
On: (date/timestamp of form submission
Location: (state/province), (country)"
But nominations also have full name and Email fields that I do not want to embed in the post, so some kind of method of dumping in everything automatically won't work in this case.
Also, the tags are populating correctly, so the nominations can be searched for by tag, but I also want to list each tag field in the body of the post, like this:
"Country: xxx
State/Province: xxx
Area Code: xxx
Zip Code: xxx
Gender: xxx
Age Group: xxx"
If I am barking up the wrong tree in terms of the best way to accomplish this let me know...but my site goes live Monday, and I am not a PHP coder, so something along these lines seems like the best possibility :), if I can figure out how to funnel those fields into the post body via the Gravity Forms interface.
If that's not possible, I am open to suggestions, and while I am a newbie with Gravity Forms, I'm also a former Oracle/Sybase DBA and a pretty good systems analyst ;), so fire away with whatever advice you want and don't worry that it will be too confusing. I basically know *what* should be possible to do with PHP and MySQL (and WordPress and Gravity Forms), just not how to do it yet ;).
It would be great to know the ideal way to do this, but also some way for a newbie to get it working in a limited but functionally-all-there way by the end of the week :).
