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  1. Anonymous
    Unregistered

    Since I am not able to export and import entries from one form to another, if I am going to test or work on a replacement form, my options seem extremely limited. I can't export the form and then edit it in Excel and then import it again or edit by hand as that seems not advisable (and can clearly mess things up).

    So, here is what I am trying to do as a workaround. I have created a second form based on my active form with the records. I have made the changes to it and tested it out. Can I now go into my FTP client, find the file where the second form is at, copy the text of the xml file and then paste that into the other form? Will it work? If it will work, where do I find the form in the WP structure?

    Posted 14 years ago on Thursday June 9, 2011 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    Forms aren't stored as files. There is nothing to download via FTP. Gravity Forms is completely dynamic. Your Form data and structure is stored in your WordPress database. When you export your form to XML it generates XML based on your forms data.

    I'm not sure what you mean by paste XML into another form. That isn't how the import/export works. You can export the form to XML, and you can then import that XML and it creates a new form. You can't overwrite an existing form, importing a form only creates a new form.

    Forms aren't designed to be edited in Excel, they aren't a spreadsheet. They consist of a complex data structure which is why XML is used.

    What exactly are you trying to do? Gravity Forms is a dynamically driven form builder. It's designed for you to make your changes using the form editor.

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday June 10, 2011 | Permalink

  3. media50
    Member

    Joseph,
    You can export the forms as XML within Gravity Forms. Then you can open the XML files in a text editor and copy new fields from another form.

    I just did this yesterday for duplicating large amounts of fields and it worked nicely.

    Carl,
    But reading between the lines a bit, I think Joseph might be referring to the actual data that the orignal Form collected. If he essentially goes and forks the form design to create 2 forms... now he has 2 sets of data. Which is difficult to manage. I'm in the same boat with a project.

    I would like to take the data that I created in the original form and merge that with the data I created in the modified form. I would love to see this ability in a future version of GF.

    Thanks.

    Posted 14 years ago on Sunday August 14, 2011 | Permalink