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Export/Import Form Settings

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  1. fuhrmara
    Member

    Is it possible to export/import the Form settings ?
    I would like to build a form at my local host to check and test the form, do some CSS codings ...
    After this i will install the form on my website.

    Is there any feature for this ?

    Posted 14 years ago on Sunday January 10, 2010 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    Currently you cannot import/export a form.

    This feature is going to be part of the 1.4 release so it will be coming very soon.

    Posted 14 years ago on Sunday January 10, 2010 | Permalink

  3. sxmungall
    Member

    Hiya Carl! How soon are we talking? A week? A month? Cheers!

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday January 19, 2010 | Permalink

  4. fuhrmara
    Member

    I saw that it's possible to get the form-data from the database.

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday January 19, 2010 | Permalink

  5. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    We haven't announced a timetable or 1.4 yet as we are wrapping up 1.3.9 and the first add-on that will be released very soon.

    Yes it is possible to use PHPMyAdmin and copy form data from the database and create a new form that way.

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday January 19, 2010 | Permalink

  6. sxmungall
    Member

    Guess we're going to need a workaround before the release.

    I've had a look at PHPMyAdmin, which files do I need to export/import to copy a form across blogs? Cheers x

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday January 22, 2010 | Permalink

  7. Alex Cancado
    Administrator

    sxmungall,
    There are a couple of ways we can do this and the approach will depend on the following:
    1- Do you want to copy all forms or just specific forms?
    2- Do the target blogs (the blogs you are copying the forms to) already have other forms that you don't want to lose?

    Posted 14 years ago on Monday January 25, 2010 | Permalink

  8. Fred Romano
    Member

    I have the same situation, I have a specific form on blog A that needs to be duplicated to blog B. I have some forms on blog B wich I need. I am not familiar with PHPmyadmin. How do I do this? It's a long form and I hate to have to recreate it.

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday January 26, 2010 | Permalink

  9. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    It's going to vary depending on your needs, you would have to answer Alex's questions above before he could post instructions.

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday January 26, 2010 | Permalink

  10. Fred Romano
    Member

    I did answer his questions...
    1-specific form from blog A
    2-Yes I have forms I do not want to lose on blog B.

    I just don't know much about PHPmyadmin to be able to do it. This is the only thing I miss about using cforms... It was easy to do that. But your are much nicer. Help would be appreciated.

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday January 26, 2010 | Permalink

  11. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    Sorry Fred, my response was to sxmungall who needs to follow up her post with additional details. I'll let Alex know you have a specific scenario and he can post some instructions.

    Export/Import of forms is coming in 1.4 so it will be native soon.

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday January 26, 2010 | Permalink

  12. Fred Romano
    Member

    YES! I can't wait!!! I have so many large forms to duplicate from site to site... THANKS!

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday January 26, 2010 | Permalink

  13. sxmungall
    Member

    Hi! Sorry for getting back so late. I sent a priority support message, with the same question, so I was keeping an eye out for a response there. I'd completely forgotten about this thread.

    I can't wait for 1.4 to come out and to see what else the Rocket Genius crew are going to develop.

    Answering your questions:
    1. There is only one form on the source blog so either way is fine (but for future reference please explain instructions to copy all the forms across)
    2.The target blog has no forms, so no worries about losing any existing forms.

    Thanks Guys x

    P.S. The Haiti pledge for $1,000... This is why doing business with you guys is a no-brainer.People before profits. My sort of company! Keep up the great work!

    Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday January 27, 2010 | Permalink

  14. Alex Cancado
    Administrator

    sxmungall,
    Since your target blog does not have any forms, you can just import the two main form tables from one blog to the other.

    You can login to phpMyAdmin on the source blog and export (to SQL) the tables wp_rg_form and wp_rg_form_meta.

    Then import those tables into the target blog.

    Posted 14 years ago on Thursday January 28, 2010 | Permalink

  15. Alex Cancado
    Administrator

    Fred,
    Your task is a bit harder since you won't be able to do a full export/import.
    Since you don't have a lot of experience with phpMyAdmin, I would recommend waiting for that feature and just recreate the forms manually. This feature is definitely going to make it into 1.4 since it is a very popular one.

    Posted 14 years ago on Thursday January 28, 2010 | Permalink

  16. sxmungall
    Member

    Alex, thanks for your help. I'll let you know if I run into any problems. Cheers x

    Posted 14 years ago on Thursday January 28, 2010 | Permalink

  17. Fred Romano
    Member

    Thanks Alex I am waiting!!! Hopefully soon please :)

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday January 29, 2010 | Permalink

  18. RichardBest
    Member

    Ditto... . This is going to be a cracker of a feature. R.

    Posted 14 years ago on Saturday January 30, 2010 | Permalink

  19. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    Import/Export is a feature planned for the 1.4 release.

    1.3.9 will be coming first, it will be bug fixes and will also add support for the first batch of add-ons we plan on releasing.

    After that 1.4 will be the next release that brings new features to the core Gravity Forms plugin... with Export/Import of forms being one of those features.

    Posted 14 years ago on Sunday January 31, 2010 | Permalink

  20. dorsini
    Member

    will the import functionality in 1.4 be MU compatable?

    Posted 14 years ago on Monday February 1, 2010 | Permalink

  21. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    The import/export will be compatible with MU.

    After MU is merged into WordPress with Version 3.0 we will most likely produce some MU specific tools. We have held off on creating a MU add-on specifically because it is being phased out and the MU functionality is being rolled into WordPress itself as a multi-site feature.

    Posted 14 years ago on Monday February 1, 2010 | Permalink

  22. tcham
    Member

    Thanks to Alex Cancado's post above I just was able to do this with phpMyadmin (and I'm no expert, but so far it seems to have worked out).

    In case it might help someone, here are the steps that I took once inside phpMyadmin to transfer a form from Blog A (the test site) to Blog B (the ultimate site) ...

    1) Logged into phpMyadmin for Blog A.

    2) Clicked on the wp_rg_form table on the left-hand side of the page.

    3) Hit "export" at the top.

    4) Ensured that the radio button was selected for SQL (as opposed to CSV or any of the other options).

    5) Selected button towards the bottom for "save as file"

    6) Hit "go" [box pops up to save the file to hard drive]

    THEN

    7) Clicked on the wp_rg_form_meta table on the lefthand side of the php panel.

    8) Hit "export" at the top.

    9) Ensured that the radio button was selected for SQL (as opposed to CSV or any of the other options).

    10) Selected button towards the bottom for "save as file"

    11) Hit "go". [box pops up to save the file to hard drive]

    12) Hit EXIT

    ***ON BLOG B***

    1) Logged into phpMyAdmin for Blog B

    2) Located wp_rg_form on left hand side.

    3) Clicked on "Operations" at the top

    4) In "Table Options" box located line that says "rename table to"

    5) Changed the name of this table to wp_rg_formorig (to prevent problems with the import)

    6) Hit "Go"

    7) Located wp_rg_form_meta on left hand side.

    8) Clicked on "Operations" at the top

    9) In "Table Options" box located line that says "rename table to"

    10) Changed the name of this table to wp_rg_form_metaorig (again to prevent problems with the import)

    11) Hit "Go"

    12) Click on database name (string of numbers underneath "information schema")

    13) Hit "Import"

    14) Under file to import box, hit browse and looked for wp_rg_form sql document just saved from Blog A. Selected this file.

    15) Hit Go.

    *new wp_rg_form table appeared in left side panel

    16) Repeated steps 12-15 for the wp_rg_form_meta file saved from Blog A

    *new wp_rg_form_meta table appeared in left side panel

    Hit EXIT

    Then I logged into the WP Administrator panel for Blog B, clicked on Form in the dashboard, and voila-- my form was there (with all of the same fields and everything). I was able to then publish the form on Blog B using the regular steps and did not have to recreate the form.

    Hopefully this was clear. Cheers!

    Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday March 10, 2010 | Permalink

  23. blafarmm
    Member

    tcham

    Just a quick "Thank You" for posting these instructions.
    It was nice to have a little "hand holding" through this process.
    For anyone else needing to do this before 1.4 - these instructions are perfect.
    I actually omitted the renaming process - and it was just fine.

    Thanks again.

    Posted 14 years ago on Saturday April 24, 2010 | Permalink

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