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Pre-sales questions

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  1. Jeanette
    Member

    After trying to struggle with TDO Miniforms, I think your plug in may be a better solution. Although many of my questions were answered using the search function, I still have a few:

    1. I would be using this plug in for short product reviews to be added to the WP as posts. If I did a drop down that included certain sub-categories, and that was a required field for submission of the review, that post then appear as part of that sub-category, correct? And would then be able to be searched for using the standard search function in WP?

    2. Can the results of the data submitted on the form be sorted and used on a page? Maybe by an export? For example, if the form asked people to review chocolate, and the fields asked for Manufacturer, Type (white, dark, milk), Price and Rating - could this information be exported then sorted for use on another page or a widget? Like - highest rated dark chocolate under $20?

    2. I would also like to be able to have reviewers rate each product - you had a field that included five checkboxes (strongly like, like, neutral, dislike, strongly dislike - or something like that). Could this be used for ratings? Or are you going to install a star rating system (if so, when?)

    3. If I purchase the $39 license, do I get free lifetime upgrades as they are released? (I do realize that the support is limited on that license).

    (please accept my apologies if some of these questions are showing my lack of WP and coding knowledge.) Thank you.

    Posted 14 years ago on Sunday May 2, 2010 | Permalink

  2. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    Hi Jeanette, as a very happy Gravity Forms user, I hope I can answer some of these questions for you. These are not official answers by any means.

    1. Yes to the categories. Yes to the search. Built-in WordPress search does not search Pages or custom fields (I don't think) so if you were planning on using either of those, you'd need a WordPress search plugin. That's not a Gravity Forms limitation but a WordPress search one. Search Everything is one such WordPress plugin that will allow you to search pages and custom fields:

    2. Not exactly sure what you mean here, but when the data is submitted, you can use it pretty much however you want. If you are creating a Post, it sounds like you're going to want to store some of that data in custom fields (price, rating, manufacturer, etc) then display that on the front end. So, yes, I think you can do what you want, although it might require some work on your widget to use those custom fields. The Query Posts plugin from Justin Tadlock might be able to do what you want in a widget. It will enable you to pull posts based on all sorts of conditionals.

    2b. I can't answer if GF is ever going to add rating. It was suggested in the past, but I don't think it was ever addressed. http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/star-rating

    But, if you used radio buttons from 1 to 5 (I think they're called Multiple Choice in GF), I think you could probably use that as a sort criteria as well, to get the highest rated product. This is going to require some work on the front end (in your widget or wherever else you want to display the data.)

    3. http://www.gravityhelp.com/important-gravity-forms-announcement/#more-950
    "Support and automatic updates will change to a 1 year term for all NEW purchases beginning on that date."

    Based on that, I think you get support and upgrades for a year, not lifetime. The new terms are not online yet, and I believe Gravity Forms is going to extend the deadline for the Developer license. http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/deadline#post-5158

    Hope that information helps. Gravity forms really excels at making it supremely easy to create a form (like, less that a minute to create and publish a simple form) and then you need to do the work to display the data on the front end. I think everything you are asking is possible, probably possible in more than one way as well.

    Also, Carl Hancock posted something interesting yesterday:
    http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/insert-shortcode-in-post-body#post-5151

    In fact it's going to allow you to insert ANY form field submitted with the Post Body field to be inserted into the post body. Basically we will allow you to insert form field variables into the default value of the Post Body, which will effectively allow you to dynamically control the output. This will be coming in a future release.

    That sounds to me like it will be even easier in the future to do the things you want. But I think it's possible to do all that you want right now.

    Posted 14 years ago on Sunday May 2, 2010 | Permalink