Standard Fields

Standard Fields are basic form fields that can be customized for just about any use. These can be used to capture and store a variety of data when an advanced field is not available to meet your needs.

• Single Line Text
• Paragraph Text
• Drop Down
• Multi Select
• Number
• Checkboxes
• Radio Buttons
• Hidden
• HTML
• Section Break
• Page Break

Advanced Fields

Advanced Fields are more advanced form field types with specific usage in mind. Advanced fields may actually contain multiple fields in one container. These fields make it easy to capture data such as a users Name, Address, etc.

• Name
• Date
• Time
• Phone
• Address
• Website
• Email
• File Upload
• CAPTCHA
• Password
• List

Post Fields

Post Fields are form fields that enable you to capture data that is then used to create a WordPress Post. These fields make it quick and easy for you to create forms that allow users to submit content to your site. The result posts will be set as a Draft and will need to be published before they are visible.

• Post Title
• Post Body
• Post Excerpt
• Post Tags
• Post Category
• Post Image
• Post Custom Field

Pricing Fields

Pricing Fields are form fields that enable you to create products

• Product
• Option
• Quantity
• Shipping
• Total

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Confirmation Quick Toolbar

Each confirmation item has an confirmation toolbar that displays when you hover over the first cell of an confirmation row. This quick toolbar will allow you to edit the confirmation, duplicate the confirmation, delete the confirmation, or even set the confirmation to “active” or “inactive”.

Confirmation Actions

The following confirmation actions are available per entry in the Confirmation Quick Toolbar. The active and inactive switch is available to the left of each confirmation item.

• Edit
  Edit allows to make any modifications to your confirmations.
• Duplicate
  Duplicate will make a copy of that entire confirmation.
• Active/Inactive
  Active sets the current confirmation to use. Inactive means the confirmation is there but it is not currently in use.
• Delete
  Deleting a confirmation permanently removes the confirmation, and cannot be undone.

Confirmation Columns

• Name
  This is the name your of your confirmation
• Type
  There are multiple types of confirmations. The text confirmation will produce text you have entered in that field. The redirect will redirect you to the URL you have provided. The Page type links to the WordPress related page you have specified.
• Content
  The content is the information that is included in the type you have specified. Ex: Type (redirect) Content (http://www.google.com)

Confirmation Types

Text

• Message
  Enter the text you would like the user to see on the confirmation page of this form.
  • Disable Auto-formatting
    When enabled, auto-formatting will insert paragraph breaks automatically. Disable auto-formatting when using HTML to create the confirmation content.

Page

• Page
  Select the page you would like the user to be redirected to after they have submitted the form.
• Redirect Query String
  To pass field data to the confirmation page, build a Query String using the ‘Insert Merge Tag’ drop down.

Redirect

• Redirect URL
  Enter the URL of the web page you would like the user to be redirected to after they have submitted the form
• Redirect Query String
  To pass field data to the confirmation page, build a Query String using the ‘Insert Merge Tag’ drop down.

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Accessing your form submissions

1. Within your admin dashboard, click on Forms in the left side navigation menu.
2. You should now see a list of all forms. To access the submissions for that form, hover over the form you want to access, and click on Entries.
3. You should now see a list of all form submissions listed there.
4. To access the full information of an individual form submission, click on the individual entry listed.

Filtering form submissions

When reviewing form submissions, it is also possible to filter them to get the exact data you’re looking for. This is especially helpful if you have a large number of submissions over time.

To filter your submissions, simply access all submissions for your desired form, and use the dropdowns and text fields at the top right.

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Shortcode Builder

From the Page or Post Editor you can click on the Form icon in the Upload/Insert toolbar. This is located to the left of the Visual/HTML tabs in the body text editor. Clicking on the Form icon will activate the insert form modal window.

Using the shortcode builder you will first want to select a form from the Select a Form dropdown. If you are unable to find your form in the dropdown list, return to the Edit Forms page and ensure that your form is active. Once you have selected a form, you can specify the following options:

• Display form title
  Checking this option will display the form title
• Display form description
  Checking this option will display the form description
• Enable AJAX
  Checking this option will enable your form to be submitted via AJAX. Submitting the form via AJAX allows the form to be submitted without requiring a page refresh.

Please note, due to limitations with reCAPTCHA, forms containing a reCAPTCHA field will not be submitted via AJAX even if this option is enabled.

After you have specified your desired options, click Insert Form to automatically insert the Gravity Forms shortcode into the body of the post/page content you are editing.

Shortcode Manually

If you would like to build the WordPress shortcode manually, you may do so using the format and options below. You may then insert the shortcode into the body of the page or post you would like the form to appear in.

Example:

• id
  The id of the form to be embedded. (required)
• title
  Whether or not to display the form title. Defaults to ‘true’. (optional)
• description
  Whether or not to display the form description. Defaults to ‘true’. (optional)
• ajax
  Specify whether or not to use AJAX to submit the form.
• tabindex
  Specify the starting tab index for the fields of this form.
• field_values

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Form Basics

• Title
  Enter the title of your form. (Ex. Contact Us)
• Description
  Enter a description for your form. This may be used for user instructions.

Form Layout

• Label Placement
  Select the label placement. Labels can be top aligned above a field, left aligned to the left of a field, or right aligned to the left of a field.
• Description Placement
  Select the description placement. Descriptions can be placed above the field inputs or below the field inputs. Only available when Label Placement is set to “Top aligned”
• Sub-Label Placement
  Determines the placement of the sub-label.
• CSS Class Name
  Enter the CSS class name you would like to use in order to override the default styles for this form.

Form Button

• Form Button
  You may select to either use a text based button or an image button. If you would like to use text for a button simply select Text and type in what you would like to appear as the button text. To use an image, select Image and enter the full path to the image you would like to use for the submit button.
  • Button image path
    Enter the path of the image you would like to use as the form submit button.
• Button Conditional Logic
  This feature allows you to create rules to dynamically display or hide the submit button based on values from another field. Remember, to use conditional logic you will need to create a drop down, checkbox or multiple choice field in the form.

Save and Continue

This checkbox allows you to enable a button in which the user can save their progress and continue at a later time.

Restrictions

• Limit number of entries
  Enter a number in the input box below to limit the number of entries allowed for this form. The form will become inactive when that number is reached.
• Schedule form
  Schedule a time period the form is active.
• Require user to be logged in
  Check this option to require a user to be logged in to view this form.
  • Require login message
    Enter a message to be displayed to users who are not logged in.

Form Options

• Enable anti-spam honeypot
  Checking this option will enable the honeypot spam protection technique, which is an alternative to the reCAPTCHA field. Once activated, the honeypot spam protection technique will function automatically and will not require any user interaction.
• Enable animations
  Checking this option will enable a sliding animation when displaying/hiding conditional logic fields. By default, the displaying/hiding of conditional logic fields has no animation; the fields are displayed/hidden instantly.

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In the top left corner you will see a few pieces of information about the form. The first piece of information is the field type (ie Custom Field, Paragraph Text, Drop Down, etc). This is useful as some fields (such as the Custom Field) allow for different types of inputs. It can be difficult to determine which kind of field you are working with when a Checkboxes Field and a Custom Field set to checkbox inputs both look the same. Problem solved!

The second piece of information is the Field ID. This is super useful for a variety of tasks but especially so when retrieving field values with any of Gravity Forms’ hooks.

In the top right corner you will see the following options:

• Edit/Close
  Clicking the “Edit” link will select the field and open up the full field options. If the field is currently selected, the “Edit” button will be updated to the “Close” button. Clicking the “Close” button will hide the field options.
• Duplicate
  Clicking the “Duplicate” link will duplicate the current field preserving all of the field options in the new field. The duplicated field will display directly below the original field.
• Delete
  Clicking the “Delete” link will delete the field from the form. You will be prompted to confirm before the field is deleted. Don’t forget that deleting a field also deletes all entry data associated with it.

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Forms integrates with reCAPTCHA, a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books while protecting your forms from spam bots. The following settings are required to use the reCAPTCHA field.

• reCAPTCHA Public Key
  Required only if you decide to use the reCAPTCHA field. Sign up for a free account to get the key.
• reCAPTCHA Private Key
  Required only if you decide to use the reCAPTCHA field. Sign up for a free account to get the key.

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1. First, log into your WordPress admin dashboard.
2. From within inside your WordPress admin, hover over Forms and click on Import/Export.
3. You should be immediately prompted with the Export Entries tab. Within here, select the form that you want to export the entries for in the dropdown.
4. Once the form to export entries from is selected, additional options will be shown. The first of these settings is the Select Fields option. This will allow you to specifically select the form fields you want to export. Simply select the checkboxes next to each form field that you want to export.
5. The next available option is Conditional Logic. Here, you are able to export only fields that contain specific information.
6. Lastly, you may also select a date range for the field submissions that are exported. If you leave this blank, all entries will be exported.
7. Once all options are appropriately selected according to your needs, click the Download Export File button. Depending on the amount of information you have within your export, this can sometimes take a few moments.

You have now exported your form entries. From here, what you do with this information is all up to you. This feature is great for backing up your data, as well as generating an offline copy of submissions for further investigation.

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1. First, start by accessing the notification that you want to configure additional routing for. This can be done by accessing the form associated with the notification, hovering over Settings, clicking on Notifications, and then accessing the notification you want to manage. If you want to create a new notification, simply click the Add New button.
2. Within the settings for your notification, you will see an option labeled Send To. If you select Configure Routing, additional options similar to conditional logic will appear.
3. Inside the routing configuration, the first thing you will need to do is determine where the notification will be sent if the routing condition is met. Simply enter the email address of the user that you want to send the notification to.
4. Next, you’ll need to configure the field that the routing condition will use. To do so, use the dropdown box to select the field that the condition will be based on.
5. Now that the field is selected, you’ll need to set the operator used to compare the field and value. For example, if you only want to send this notification if a particular radio button is checked, you would select iswithin the operator dropdown. Conversely, if you do not want a notification to be sent when that radio button field is selected, you would use is not.
6. Finally, you’ll need to set the value that will be used to compare against the field submission result. If using pre-selected options, this will appear as a dropdown. If the field is something like a text field where the user will enter their own value, the condition value will appear as a text box. Within the condition value, enter the value to compare with the submission.
7. If you want to add addition conditions or remove a condition, use the + and – icons to the right of the condition item to either add or remove it.

You can now continue configuring your notification as seen fit. Remember that Forms only sends notifications when conditions are met, so if you’re having trouble, double-check your settings as there is a high likelihood that a condition simply isn’t matching.

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Your form title has now been changed. Of course, if you prefer, you can still change your form title the old way by accessing your form settings.

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