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Three things I was surprised to find missing

  1. So surprised that I hope I am just failing to find it as having just paid for it I am approaching regret:

    1) I can see no way to pass an entry id on the query string to prepopulate a form (to allow the ability to edit an entry under the same UI they created it).

    2) I can see no easy way to use the data gathered by forms on my site...no view...no api...no shortcodes for displaying a list....no nothing really. What is the point of data I cannot mine?

    3) I can see no API documentation to add such features if they are use cases somehow only critical to me.

    Without such tools I am going to have to write a lot of glue to bridge this data.

    Thanks for any feedback; form creation and usage has been rather pleasant and I hope there are easy answers to these questions (that sort that make me look sill for not rtfm).

    Posted 11 years ago on Friday March 15, 2013 | Permalink
  2. With regards to 1&2). I found an addon (http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gravity-forms-addons) which does somewhat what i need for display and edit ( I cant get it to work but I think its a few tweeks away).

    With regards to 3 it looks like im limited to hooks?

    Posted 11 years ago on Friday March 15, 2013 | Permalink
  3. David Peralty

    Yes, hooks and filters in our documentation are the best way to do things with Gravity Forms.

    Posted 11 years ago on Friday March 15, 2013 | Permalink
  4. David Peralty

    Here is our developer documentation part:
    http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Developer_Docs

    We have focused on collecting data. You can export data to a CSV. And front end data display is only done through WordPress posts. Most people collecting data don't want it shown to the public. All my best!

    Posted 11 years ago on Friday March 15, 2013 | Permalink
  5. Well, thanks i guess although a rather contradictory response.

    There is a lot of functionality in gravity forms for having it populate a post (ie so we can present data collected by the forms to the public). It is in fact why i chose it over some of the others. So I'm not quite sure I agree with your statement that people don't want to display data. They obviously do, and you obviously support it.

    Thanks for the filter reference. However a simple API to say load, store, create an entry would have been pretty powerful. I guess i will peek inside and see if just rolling my own implementation makes more sense.

    Thanks for the quick response.

    Posted 11 years ago on Friday March 15, 2013 | Permalink