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Some questions about capabilities of the plugins

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  1. maorb
    Member

    Hi,

    I'm impressed from you Gravity forms plugin, and I might want to purchase a copy to build a site for a customer.
    Before I do that, I have 3 important questions I'd like to investigate in order to see if your system suits the needs.

    First - dynamically forms status managing. It means that each form is received in the system in a status "new" and the manager might move forms between pre-defined statuses, such as "in treatment", "rejected", "approved", "canceled" etc.
    Is such a thing possible?

    Second - multinlanguage. Does the system supports Wordpress in multi language, to show the user the form in the correct language? using for example the qTranslate plugin or WPML

    About language - one language is Hebrew, which is rtl direction. Do you have support in rtl langs? Does this plugin is prepared for localization via getText (.po/.mo)?

    Third - If it is a long form with a lot of fields, and some of the mandatory fields not filled, is it possible that the page will "jump" to the area of the first problematic field, and not to the top of the page?

    I'll be happy for your quick respond for this issues.

    Thanks,
    Maor

    Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday July 14, 2010 | Permalink

  2. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    My experience as a user. I have no experience with RTL CSS or languages.

    1. Not really. Forms are either inactive or active. You mean for the actual forms, not form submissions, correct?

    But, you could always have the form completed, then have the status of the post or page where the form is embedded be "published", "draft" or "pending review" using the built in WordPress statuses. I'm not sure if there is a WordPress plugin to extend those statuses or work flow at all.

    2a. yes: http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/qtranslate-and-gravity-forms

    2b. There was this recent tweet from Carl Hancock, one of the main guys at Rocket Genius/Gravity Forms. http://twitter.com/miriamschwab/status/18055117656 There was a forum post here as well but I can't find right now.

    2c. Yes, the plugin can be localized and includes a .pot file for translation.

    3. On form validation, the default behaviour is that the form reloads at the top, even if your non-validating field is at the bottom of the form. I didn't like that so have a way to scroll to the error on load. There have been other posts here about how to scroll to the error rather than just reload the form at the top. So, yes. This is possible.

    Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday July 14, 2010 | Permalink

  3. maorb
    Member

    @illinoisharley, thanks for your detailed response.

    I think that the first issue will be the most important thing for the customer.
    The thing is that there will be a page that will hold the form, and a lot of users will submit it.
    The customer wants to be able to manage the forms statuses for each form that has been received to the system, so i don't think that using the draft/published built in options will be useful in this case.
    Is the following might be possible: Having a hidden select box with a default selected option, and to show this select on the admin menu, and also letting the admin changing the value of that select box. If such a thing is possible, I think that it might be a solution.
    Any ideas about that?

    Thanks

    Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday July 14, 2010 | Permalink

  4. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    There are not a lot of hooks in the admin for things like this check box. So, I am unsure if it will be possible.

    Can you explain the need for these different statuses, and what they would mean to someone? I am having trouble envisioning the work flow.

    Thanks

    Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday July 14, 2010 | Permalink