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How to recover a deleted form?

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  1. David
    Member

    Is there any way to recover a deleted form?

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday July 27, 2010 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    No, once a form is deleted the only way to recover it is via database backups. We may introduce a trash functionality in the future, but even then if you fully delete a form you won't be able to recover it easily.

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday July 27, 2010 | Permalink

  3. David
    Member

    Cool. For everyone out there, I found the Backup Buddy plugin worked really well to recover my form. :)

    Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday July 28, 2010 | Permalink

  4. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    BackupBuddy to the rescue! Great plugin, we use it here also. Another thing you can do is export your forms regularly so you have a copy of them as XML. This doesn't backup your entries but is handy for backing up your forms themselves.

    Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday July 28, 2010 | Permalink

  5. Athar
    Member

    Accidently I clicked on delete form named "part II", it popped up a warning prompt and I choose cancel but still for unknown reason it still deleted the "part II" form (something lacking in feature of gravity form plugin), I am afraid..
    This is something very unfortunate and shocking that happened. I dont have backup what should I do ?

    Posted 12 years ago on Saturday May 26, 2012 | Permalink

  6. jomac
    Member

    Please, please, please add a "trash" bucket!!!

    I just deleted a massive form by mistake after spending over 20hrs creating it (it really was a work of art) - but it had not made it into my database backup cycle and I am now heading out for a bottle of whisky because I need to drown my sorrows. :-(

    Another great help would be a "duplicate page" option, or even better, an option to make a section "repeatable" including all fields in the block - that would really cut back on the repetitive work involved with forms that need to collect information for a variable number of subjects.

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday July 26, 2012 | Permalink

  7. jb510
    Member

    Is there any way to reuse an existing form ID after it's been deleted?

    Posted 11 years ago on Friday February 8, 2013 | Permalink

  8. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    You could reset the autoincrement directly in the database, so long as you don't set it any lower than the ID of any existing form.

    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/example-auto-increment.html

    Posted 11 years ago on Saturday February 9, 2013 | Permalink