Greetings Gravity,
First time user here - love the plugin.
I'm trying to find an easy-going solution for my users so it saves them the full registration process in one sitting. I'd like to just ask a few details, an get them to submit a username and password. Then once they submit those details I can check and send them a link for a second round of brutal questioning....
With my current caveman like approach I thought I would get those details and make a second form on an unlinked page... but then how would I track the new data with the previous submission.
If anyone has any suggestions, please use Layman's terms to address my woe.
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user can complete registration later with password/username
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Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday June 7, 2011 | Permalink
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I don't have a viable solution for you now; however, we've recently been discussing a way to allow users to save their current form progress and come back to complete it later.
In the meantime, I will leave this topic open for other users who have suggestion and/or tips for you.
Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday June 7, 2011 | Permalink -
Cheers David, I'll bite the bullet for now :)
Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday June 8, 2011 | Permalink -
Oh, there is one thing that could help out the form user - less scrolling. If anyone could supply some nice CSS that would allow more than one field on one line, it would be great, awesome in fact. I tried previously to do something similar to "name first last", but failed :(
Also is there a way to change the "browse" button for file upload.Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday June 8, 2011 | Permalink -
Check out the CSS Ready Classes we introduced with the 1.5 version. There are classes to emulate column layouts and there also an inline class "gf_inline" that will place subsequent fields in a row next to each other.
http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/CSS_Ready_Classes
The "browse" button can't be changed. That's locked down by the browser and can't be manipulated via CSS for styling.
Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday June 8, 2011 | Permalink -
Using the User Registration plugin and adding custom user meta data boxes it's possible to save data in the user database. But, is there a way to hook into the "next page" button in GF and also have it save the data to the custom user meta?
If this could be done, every time the user hit the next button the info would be saved to the user database and then used to dynamically generate GF fields.
Is it possible to have the next button do something like this?Posted 12 years ago on Saturday June 25, 2011 | Permalink -
+1 on @mgyura's question! I'm in the midst of trying to create a multi-step form with data saving to the user's account at each step and/or if they choose to leave and come back later to finish. I thought Gravity Forms would be the ticket but it sounds like that functionality's not ready for primetime yet. Any advice or help on how to hack this together would be MUCH appreciated!
Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday July 12, 2011 | Permalink -
I really need the ability to easily implement a way for a user to save a form in progress. Please implement this! I'm kind of surprised it's not built in already.
Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday July 20, 2011 | Permalink -
If you want to dynamically populate fields with pre-existing user data for the logged in user there is no need to do anything fancy or create save functionality, etc. All you need to do is make use of the Default Value functionality and use the merge tag for displaying user meta.
Here is the merge tag:
{user:KEY}Replace KEY with the actual user meta name you want to display. So you'd have to know the user meta key for the user meta field you want the value of. If the user is logged in and that user meta has a value then the field would have a default value set to that value.
Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday July 20, 2011 | Permalink -
Thank you, but I have no idea how to do what you just suggested. I think for non-tech folks like me, a simpler solution would just be a box that you check in WP admin that says "let users save their form data" or something like that.
Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday July 20, 2011 | Permalink -
@info@customlivingsolutions My post was in reference to @mgyura above who asked how they could pre-populate form fields using user meta data. Which is what I described. It doesn't have anything to do with saving form field values. It is for pre-populating field values with user meta.
Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday July 20, 2011 | Permalink
