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Multiple forms going into one entries location

  1. Hi there,

    Is there anyway to do this? I have 3 very similar forms in 3 locations and would like all of the bookings to appear in just one entry locations. My clients aren't a fan of having to check multiple locations and is a bit of a pain to maintain.

    Kind of a side question. If this is in no way possible, is there a way of merging all three of these booking entry folders into one?

    Cheers,

    Tom

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday June 27, 2012 | Permalink
  2. David Peralty

    There isn't any way to have three forms that load into one entries location unless you cheat and use one form on three different pages, and pre-load different values into it. I guess it depends on how similar the three forms are. As for merging data, there currently isn't any way to do this either.

    Can you link to the forms?

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday June 27, 2012 | Permalink
  3. Sure thing.

    In need of styling up but all working OK.

    http://www.londoncocktailclub.co.uk

    There is a "main" multi choice booking form from the main menu. Then two sub forms within each bar which are specific. The only difference is a multichoice list on the main and none on the other two.

    Thanks David.

    Tom

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday June 27, 2012 | Permalink
  4. David Peralty

    Right, so basically they are the same forms, but what you probably want to do is to take the main form, and then on the two bar specific pages, allow the choice list to default to be selected to what bar they are filling the form for. Then you would be using one form for all three spots.

    You will want to allow the field to be populated dynamically. You will want to give it a parameter, and then in your bar links, you can link with the parameter in it:

    http://www.londoncocktailclub.co.uk/our-bars/goodge-st-gin-palace/?bar=goodge-st-gin-palace
    or through some create PHP find a way to do that with the url as it stands currently (though I'm not sure how to do that off hand... maybe through grabbing the page title and pre_populating the selected field using a Gravity Form hook.

    Does this make sense to you?

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday June 27, 2012 | Permalink