Multi Page Forms

I need a multi page form which Gravity should work well for.

What I am wanting to know is if the person fills out the first form. Which is the most important one for me but does not fill out the second or third part of the form would I still capture this information?

If this is integrated into Mail Chimp and they did not fill out the 2nd or 3rd part of the form would I still get notification of a lead or would this be something I would need to check on manually.

I guess I am trying to figure what happens when there is abandonment on the 2nd and 3rd part of the form.

Hey Rob,

Thanks for your reply, I have the exact same request as mrmatt - in my first section I collect the users email address, if it saved this data on hitting the next button I would be able to follow up with users who abandon before reaching the last step, which on any form on most websites is the majority of users.

i understand you do not have this functionality, what I am wondering is if you could put me in the right direction as to how I would accomplish this. Would this require custom development, if so could you let know how hard this would be?

Thanks David.

Just wondering, couldn't you not make a database call at each step so that you are inserting the data entered at each step into the database? So as you click the 'next' button:

1. Push the current data to the database
2. Load the next section

Just thought and trying to understand why this wouldn't work / be a bad idea.

Is there an update on this feature?
Would love to start to use it :-)

@Chris Hajer

I've read almost every thread on this forum about the GF persistence add on.

I notice you keep saying the plugin only works if the user is logged in... My question is, does this mean we have to have a membership-based Wordpress website, like s2member? I'm totally cool with that but I just want to make sure.

2nd Question... is s2member the membership plugin that GF uses for their support forum? I like the way this area looks and I think I have seen it before.

Thanks, Ben

I contacted the guys from asthait about their Data Persistence Add-On. The info saves in the database which is good.

Unfortunately, I need the ability to allow my users to navigate to each page of the form on their own.

asthait stated that this is not possible with their Add-On and suggested I use multiple 1-page forms.

My question is, if I choose to use multiple 1-page forms, is it possible to:
1. change each page's "Submit" button to a "Save" button
2. then the final page's "Submit" button will submit ALL the pages.

I don't mind doing custom programming for this.

Finally, if I do institute this solution, does GF allow for cross-form conditional logic? (ei: answers on page 1 affect the questions on page 2)

Thanks!

Chris,

Awesome answer. I am going to create multiple 1-page forms that pass the data. But not the question remains, when the user finishes a page and clicks "Save", the form will be submitted and the user will not have the opportunity to go back and change/update that info.

For example, lets assume there are 4 single pages. User completes page 1 and 2 and clicks save at the end of each page. User moves onto page 3 and 4 and realizes they want to change the info on page 1 and 2.

But it's too late because they already clicked "save" .... is this correct? They can no longer access the info... they will now see a blank form.

thanks in advance
Ben

Chris,

Okay, so here is my solution. I am going to create 5 single page forms. I will carry the data to the last page. After submitting each page, the user will then be able to access the last form page where all their info is listed for further editing

When the user submits page 1, 2, 3, or 4, the confirmation message will say:
Thanks for submitting, please go to page 5 to make further edits.

So now my question is:

Is it possible with GravityForms to permanently show that confirmation page (thereby hiding the form)? In other words, after the user submits each page, I want to hide the form because I would rather the user make changes on page five. This means the confirmation page for each form must be displayed because it instructs the user to go to page 5 for further edits.

Possible? If yes, how... custom php?

Thanks!
Ben

Thanks Chris. My problem is straight forward but the answer does not seem easy. That is why I have resulted to various hacks and work arounds.

I have a 6 page form. I need the user to be able to navigate to any given page that they want. The user also needs the option to save any given page so that they can return later if they want.

Sounds simple but when you think about it, the current limitations of GF come just short of a solution:

multpage with persistent addon wont work because user cannot navigate the form at their will

6 single page forms with dynamic population & persistent addon wont work because each form will still display after the user hits SUBMIT, thereby confusing the user. (the user completes a page and comes back the next day to find the form empty... they will surely get confused and attempt to redo the page again).

still pondering a solution. hoping i discover something soon.

to recap, all i need is a 6 page form with a save button on each page and navigation ability for easy access to each page.

thanks!
Ben