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Previewing documentation before purchase

  1. johnbw1
    Member

    Hi,

    We're considering Gravity Forms for our website once we move from Joomla to Wordpress. I'm new at creating forms on Wordpress, so good documentation is critical to our success. I'm used to being able to preview the documentation (and usually the forums) before paying for a product. Is there any way to preview the Gravity Forms documentation before buying a license? We're non-profit, and I'd catch hell if I spent the money for a license, and then found out that the documentation isn't sufficiently detailed to enable us to use the product to do the things we need it to do.

    Thanks.

    Posted 13 years ago on Sunday December 12, 2010 | Permalink
  2. Currently the documentation and support forums are only accessible by customers. As Gravity Forms is open source one of the things you are paying for is access to these additional resources. Documentation covers how to use the toolset, and the support forums are here to provide you with assistance if you have questions or issues.

    If you provide more details on what you would like to do with the plugin I can let you know if it's possible using the plugin. After you purchase you can access documentation and the forums to receive support.

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday December 13, 2010 | Permalink
  3. johnbw1
    Member

    Hi Carl,

    Thank you for your reply, which helps me understand your position. We have two kinds of forms that we would like to replicate using Gravity Forms:

    * Contact Us forms that seem to be no problem using the Form Builder. The question here is whether we can arrange the fields for a clean, compact form. In the past, we've used tables and other HTML code to visually organize the form. Is this possible with Gravity Forms, and is it documented?

    * Order forms. The difference here is the ability to perform math calculations on the fields and display totals. From some of the posts in this forum, it seems Gravity Forms can do this. Our question is how much of a learning curve will there be coming from embedding Javascript in the HTML code for a form? Is the process of adding calculations to a GF form sufficiently well documented that we'll know what to do? I'm not talking about teaching us jQuery, but how to add the jQuery code when building a form.

    Thanks.

    Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday December 14, 2010 | Permalink
  4. To answer your first question, Gravity Forms is designed using list style markup and CSS. No tables are used. It's all standards based code utilizing CSS. The forms by default are very clean. In order to customize the look of the form you would do so using CSS. We have a CSS style guide that you can use as a reference for styling your forms with CSS, but it's not going to teach you CSS itself.

    Gravity Forms v1.5 which is currently a Release Candidate and not a final release features Pricing Fields which allows you to do math calculations on pricing. No Javascript or HTML knowledge is necessary to use the Pricing Fields.

    The form builder is entirely visual. You don't need to know HTML, Javascript or CSS to build a form. You only need to know CSS if you want to customize the look of the form. If you need to do more advanced customizations using API hooks then you would need to know PHP and possibly jQuery.

    Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday December 14, 2010 | Permalink
  5. johnbw1
    Member

    Hi Carl,

    Thank you for your reply. I've been using CSS on the websites for years, so that's no problem. I can always pick up PHP and jQuery if necessary, but pricing fields sound as if they might just be what we need. "Release candidate" sounds encouraging, and your quick responses reflect well on your organization. I'll go see what I can do about getting a GF license.

    Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday December 15, 2010 | Permalink