Many apps you hook Gravity Forms to require a 2-character state abbreviation and won't take a long state name. There should be a checkbox in the Gravity Forms State field to write the 2-character code into the database, rather than the long name.
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State Abbreviations Output instead of Long State Name
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Posted 14 years ago on Friday February 19, 2010 | Permalink
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If Gravity Forms is used to send info to most any payment Gateway, such as Authorize.net or PayPal, the abbreviation is required. Of course you can whack on a conversion routine with a hook, but this is so commonly needed it should be in core code.
Posted 14 years ago on Friday February 19, 2010 | Permalink -
I agree and we are going to look into adding this. It might even make it in the next release, which was not planned as a feature release, although no promises. Either way it will be added to a future release.
Posted 14 years ago on Friday February 19, 2010 | Permalink -
Totally agree that would be a very useful option. Meanwhile, I posted a workaround a few weeks ago:
http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/abbreviate-city-fieldsPosted 14 years ago on Wednesday March 3, 2010 | Permalink
