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Second try at getting an answer

  1. I have bought gravity forms and have the following question. Please can somebody answer this?

    I would like to create a form with drop down boxes that pre-populte the next drop down based on the choice made in the previous drop down. After the final choice is made and the submit button is pressed, a pop up opens displaying the requested data.

    Please see this example "Search Your Vehicle Here" top right area of this page: http://www.quantumtuning.co.uk

    I have CSV files with the values used in this example and I want to produce exactly the same result. Can this be done with Gravity Forms?

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday March 2, 2012 | Permalink
  2. This is not something Gravity Forms is going to do out of the box.

    You could use conditional logic to show/hide drop downs based on selections that they make. However, it's going to require you add ALL of the possible drop down combinations to your form and in the case os displaying vehicle information based on model year, make, etc. that is going to be a large number of drop down fields and it's going to be a very cumbersome form to manage. I wouldn't recommend it.

    Anything Gravity Forms can't do out of the box it can be made to do via custom code using the available hooks and filters.

    The only way to accomplish what you want to do is by implementing your own customization. You would need to write the necessary custom code to create a custom field type that behaves the way you describe. There is a tutorial that discusses how to create a custom field on this 3rd party site here:

    http://wpsmith.net/2011/plugins/how-to-create-a-custom-form-field-in-gravity-forms-with-a-terms-of-service-form-field-example/

    As for displaying the results in a popup, this would also have to be done as a customization. You would have to apply a customization using jQuery so that the results appear in a new popup window and the form the user was on resets. So you'd attach an event to the form submit to popup the content you want to popup.

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday March 2, 2012 | Permalink
  3. OK Carl. Thanks for the reply. Can you recommend someone who can do this for a fee? I know its fairly simple but I am business owner not a programmer!

    Cheers,

    Paul

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday March 2, 2012 | Permalink
  4. Hey Paul, you are more than welcome to post on our job board - just be sure to leave some contact info there in case someone wants to take the task:

    http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/forum/job-board

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday March 2, 2012 | Permalink