dwdutch
Member
I'd like to create a GF form that displays profile information for a particular user BUT not have that form administrate (or, at least, prevent SUBMIT) unless it is the user himself viewing the form.
Is this possible? Perhaps there is already a description of how to do this and I just couldn't find it in the forum.
Gravity Forms is currently designed to create data, it isn't designed to edit data out of the box. It would be possible to do what you want to do, but would require custom code and the use of a bunch of different api hooks to pull off. So it is possible, but it's a fairly advanced customization to implement something like this.
dwdutch
Member
Fair observation but, let me make an observation by first breaking my original posting into two distinct components:
1) ability to display profile data
2) ability to edit profile data
Having just tried out the new User Registration plug-in (very nice, by the way!) i can see that once this is stable it becomes a very good platform to solve component #1... by simply reversing the actions to pull the data from the WP tables rather than pushing it.
As for #2, i acknowledge that this may be a different beast (but, a guy can still hope :)
Thanks for the feedback, Carl.
Yes, that was what I was referring to with the hooks. It's possible to customize it using hooks to be able to pre-populate the fields with the existing user's data and then update rather than create a new user on submit. One of our developers has already done so on a freelance project. So it is possible.
We want to make it possible without having to write code, etc. but we have to work out the best way to handle it from a UI standpoint and how to present that to users when creating forms, etc.
@shomalgan Gravity Forms is a form builder so it doesn't display user profiles, that isn't what it is designed to do. WordPress has built in user profiles that users can see when accessing their profile in the Dashboard. You could also use other plugins that add user profiles to the front end of WordPress.
