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User Printing Form and Post Submission from Form

Gravity Support Forums » General » Pre-Purchase Questions

  1. futurewebboss
    Member

    Couple of pre-sales questions.
    1. After a user fills out a form is it possible to display the form with a "printable" version button so that they can print the form for their records?
    2. When using Post Fields I see that there is support for user defined fields, but might this maybe include fields associated with a plug in. So that one maybe could map the title to the All In One SEO?
    3. When using post fields I'm assuming that the post is created in draft format? True?
    4. When using post fields can this include tags?
    5. Can a confirmation page be a 1Shopping Cart Checkout Page?

    Thank you in advance.

    Dan

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday January 10, 2011 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    1) There isn't a printable version built in. If you want the user to print the confirmation/thank you page then you need to make the page itself printer friendly using CSS to target the print media type.

    2) If the plugin uses custom fields stored in post meta and you know the key that is used, yes you can populate fields associated with plugins using the Post Custom Field in Gravity Forms.

    3) This is up to you. Posts can be created in draft, pending review or published automatically.

    4) Yes, there is a Post Tags field.

    5) The confirmation page can either be text you enter, or you can choose to redirect to a WordPress page or 3rd party URL. So if you want the confirmation page to redirect to 1Shopping Cart, you can do this. Although this will make your first question moot as the confirmation page would be 1Shopping Cart and not a page that you make printer friendly.

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday January 10, 2011 | Permalink

  3. futurewebboss
    Member

    Thanks for your prompt reply. I'm assuming then that this includes taxonomy?

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday January 10, 2011 | Permalink

  4. futurewebboss
    Member

    Also, one last question. If I configure a form to create a post in draft mode will I get a notification that someone has filled out a form? This could be the answer to all my automation dreams if you answer affirmative to the last two questions. I"m waiting breathlessly.

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday January 10, 2011 | Permalink

  5. futurewebboss
    Member

    Just thought of another question. Not a deal breaker but a nice to have Can I take data on a form on domain X and publish a post to domain :y?

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday January 10, 2011 | Permalink

  6. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    It does support using custom taxonomy, however to use custom taxonomy you have to use available API hooks and customize Gravity Forms using code. It doesn't require changing the plugin code itself, it uses WordPress hooks.

    Forms support 2 notifications (admin and user) so if you configure your form to send an admin notification, you will receive an email when the form is submitted.

    You can't publish a form from one site to another. Forms are specific to the WordPress installation they are installed on and can't create posts elsewhere.

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday January 10, 2011 | Permalink

  7. futurewebboss
    Member

    Do I have to have the developers version of gravity forms to use the API Hooks? And is there a developers guide?

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday January 10, 2011 | Permalink

  8. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    No, you do not need the Developers license to use API hooks. We will be launching a very large developer documentation area soon along with the final release of Gravity Forms v1.5. For now the support forum is the best resource for customizations and we can provide you with guidance on what hooks to use depending on what you want to do.

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday January 10, 2011 | Permalink

  9. RichardBest
    Member

    You could use Gravity Forms to create a post on site A and publish the post to site A and site B by using an additional plugin like FeedWordPress. FeedWordPress would be installed on site B and take site A's RSS feed. FeedWordPress takes an incoming feed (i.e., site A's feed) and parses the individual items as discrete posts on site B. When set up and working properly, it's a superb plugin.

    On site B, you could take a category feed from site A. If you didn't want a category of posts produced by site A to be shown on site A, you could simply exclude that category from the loop on site A whilst still making the category feed available (I think that's possible).

    Hope this helps.
    Richard

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday January 10, 2011 | Permalink

  10. futurewebboss
    Member

    Thanks for the great answers and support. Be looking for the developers guide. I think that will be very helpful. Is there a list of developers to be found on the site? I need the form strongly hooked into a post architecture that uses Taxonomy and don't have the time to dig into the code.

    Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday January 11, 2011 | Permalink

  11. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    @futurewebboss If you want to hire a developer to assist you with a customization you can contact David Smith at http://www.ounceoftalent.com. He also works for us, but he does freelance WordPress development on the side.

    Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday January 11, 2011 | Permalink