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If I buy GF will I be able to do these things?

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  1. SpikeHammer
    Member

    Before I commit to buying GF could you let me know if it will be capable of doing the following (reading about it and watching the videos etc it looks like it will).

    I want to use GF on a site built for a local football (soccer) club that has about 300 players and obviously all their relations etc , so quite a sizable community body. The site uses Wordpress.

    The site link is : http://www.oadbyowls.com

    I want the Managers or an appointed person from each team to be able to submit a couple of forms after each game.

    Form 1: This would be a simple results form the would have fields such as:
    Username
    Password
    Date
    Person submitting
    Team names (home team and opponents)
    Win/Lose/Draw
    Score
    Scorers name
    Man of the Match
    CAPTCHA
    All fields would be mandatory.

    Form 2: This would be a match report form.
    It would contain all the above info (so could it auto-populate from that form?)
    plus a report on the actual detail of the match.

    I would then like to be able to pre-vet the submissions and publish them on the relavent teams pages on the site.

    It would be great if the Results Form (Form 1) could auto-populate the results sidebar on the site..:)

    Thanks in advance for any help

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday December 7, 2010 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    A couple things to note here, this can be accomplished with Gravity Forms but what you have described isn't going to happen without some work on your part to 1) configure the forms the way you want them and 2) setup form 1 to pass data to form 2 so that they can pre-populate information in form 2.

    I'm not sure what you mean by username/password in Form 1. If they need to be logged into your site in order to submit a report then you would want to put the form on a page that requires the user is logged in before they can access it. Gravity Forms doesn't have access control, it's simply forms. So you'd have to setup something such as a Members plugin so that only specific users could post a result.

    Gravity Forms can create posts so you could have the forms generate Posts with the included information and you could set them so they are Drafts and require your approval before they are published. You do this using Post Fields. Only Post Fields create post data.

    As for auto-populating the results sidebar on the site, this isn't something Gravity Forms does. It's strictly forms and data. If you have a sidebar on your site with links to results then you would have to configure your theme to display Posts from whatever category these results are being posted to.

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday December 7, 2010 | Permalink

  3. SpikeHammer
    Member

    Thx for the prompt reply.
    Happy to configure the forms etc and was expecting to have to do that anyway. The site has no user logins, it is just a site with the update done by a couple of guys. I'll look into WP and see if we can have at least a page that would require a login.
    Everything would be treated as a Draft awaiting approval
    Auto-populating the side bar would have just been a 'nice to have' but it's no big deal.

    I presume from reading the GF site that images with the forms won't be an issue either?

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday December 7, 2010 | Permalink

  4. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    Users can upload images with forms and if you use the Post Image field they get processed and added to your media library. They can then be added in the post itself either by using the Content Template functionality of the Post Body field or by using the gallery short code in the Content Template or calling the gallery in your theme template file.

    You should be able to do what you want to do. If you have any questions when trying to implement it for your specialized use case, just post on the forum and we will be glad to give you guidance.

    A good plugin for managing access to content on a page or entire pages and posts is the Members plugin. It was created by Justin Tadlock and is available in the WordPress.org plugin repository.

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday December 7, 2010 | Permalink

  5. SpikeHammer
    Member

    Have now purchased GF and will start 'playing' today :)

    Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday December 8, 2010 | Permalink

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