LexiLynStudio
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Is there a way to make it so if a certain option is chosen it will determine the next set of questions? So if the question is a yes or no question, if the person chooses "yes" then a new set of questions appears, if "no" is chosen then those extra questions don't appear?
Sorry...not quite sure how to explain it...
Yes, that's called conditional logic and you can enable that per-field or for whole sections of your form.
http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Enable_Conditional_Logic
you can see it in action on this demo
http://www.gravityforms.com/demo/gravity-forms-conditional-logic-form-demo/
change the "who would you like to contact" selector to see different options.
What do you mean by "or for whole sections of your form"? It's not addressed in the docs at the link you provided. Do you just mean you can apply the same rule to multiple fields to have them show?
I'm trying to do a simple membership eligibility/interest question that seems to require some "or" login, not just "all" or "any".
I guess I can repeat the field multiple time with different sets of rules, but it seems like it should be doable within one instance, no?
Alternatively can multiple instances of the same field have the same field nale so the data is in one place?
Does that make sense?
Thanks,
Michael
Conditional logic can be applied to the section break elements as well as individual fields. Anything within that "section" up to the end of the form or the next section break will be shown/hidden conditionally based on the rules you apply. There's currently no thorough documentation for this that's specific to the section break, but it works just the same as single fields.
http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Section_Break
No, the fields are all dynamically assigned unique names so it won't work the way you're describing If I understand correctly.
Thanks for the response. i get the section thing now.
I basically have a questionnaire in this format:
A. Are you Member?
Yes | No
B. Do you meet these criteria?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
C. Do You meet this Criteria?
Yes | No
D. Would you like to be a member?
Yes | No
I'd like to show the last question, D, to show if the answer to A is No, and either check any of B-1, B-2, B-3, B-4, or they answer Yes to C.
Is that doable in anyway?
Thanks,
Michael
Yeah, it sounds like all that's doable with the conditional logic. Let us know if you run into any problems and we'll be happy to help guide you through.
I think your use case is too complex to handle with conditional logic as you wrote it. You want to do a combination of AND and OR
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(("A == NO" AND B IN (1,2,3,4) OR "C == YES")which is not currently possible with the conditional logic in the form builder. You may have to think of a different way to phrase the questions as qualifications so they can arrive at "yes, I would like to become a member" which is likely the goal?
If the answer to A is YES, they never get the option to join. Maybe what you could do is make the submit button conditional based on the answer to question A? Or have an additional form as the qualifying question. If they're not a member, then you can send them from form one to the second form, which would have questions B and C, which you can certainly use in conditional logic to show field D. If they're already a member, are they even going to be interested in the form?
What should happen if they do NOT meet the criteria (if they answer NO to C or check B5, correct?) Do you show them anything? Also, what happens at the end if they say, NO, they do not want to become a member? Can they still submit the form?
You could also just accept their answers on the front end (just ask all the questions) then use more complex conditions in functions.php to customize their notification email or the confirmation message they see:
I've found that with conditional logic you sometimes needs to revise the workflow or thought process to make it work with simple AND/OR logic. If you can post your complete form and what should happen in every case (flowchart?) we may be able to help you come up with a solution.
It's actually a contest entry form, so that's the main goal — get them to enter:
http://trojandreams.df-dev.com/wordpress/contest/
I think the simplest solution is to have the client just make the Live/Work in LA question a checkbox in the previous Affiliation question, but they may want to keep them separate somehow.
The second goal is to get them to be a member if they are not already. To be eligible they need to be any USC affiliate (except just a fan) or they need to live, work, attend school or church in the City of Los Angeles... So it's kind of broad, but out of town guest and people living outside the city are not eligible for instance.
Thoughts?
-Michael
I've been thinking about it all day, and I have not come up with a solution. I think it needs to be simplified to have a straighter path through, but I can't wrap my head around the best way yet. It might need to be broken up into multiple forms, or even allow the contest entry if they are eligible, then follow up with email to try to get them to become members.
Will think more, but I think simplifying it will make it possible with Gravity Forms.
Thanks, Chris.
We ended up just making the field show if they are not already a member. They'll just have to visually triage eligibility based on the other selections for now.
It would be nice if Gravity Forms conditional logic let you build something a little more complex in future versions.
Thanks,
Michael
Glad you found a workaround.