Clearing the Persistent Data

I’m having this same problem after clearing my cache in chrome the data disappears, until I login to the site again it’s re-populated. Is there a way to permanently delete the persistent data if the user chooses?

Thanks

It’s funny, for me, I would want it to be the exact opposite – I am using gravity forms to have my clients (brides and grooms) fill out big pre-wedding forms that collect all kinds of information about them, the reception agenda, etc (I’m a Mobile DJ). So I specifically WANT this plugin to hang onto the data. It would be best if it were an admin setting – “clear persistence after successful submission.”

Has anyone found an answer for this? We have a form for first responders that will have confidential information. I want users to be able to come back to the form as many times as necessary to get it done but then clear the information after they submit. Thanks.

https://www.harrisoncommunitynetwork.org/40-2/community-living/health-caresafety/safety/safety_hcn-activities/first-responder-information/

The only way to do so is manually from the database. If you don’t know what you’re doing it can screw up your WordPress install. This would be a useful feature to add, a checkbox the user can tick “delete my persistent data”

You can contact Riz (the maker of this plugin) directly here:

https://www.asthait.com/contact.aspx

He does respond, however he is in Bangladesh so there’s a time difference and I’m unsure of his current workload.

Thanks. Obviously, I have very limited knowledge about what I’m doing, so I will leave hands off. Thanks for the contact info.

I’m not sure, but this seems to be a bug inside the ‘Enable multi entry from same user while form is persistent’ functionality. In my opinion, the form should be cleared out when a user submits the form, so that a new entry can be made without using the old persistent data.

The ‘persistent_multipage_forms.php’ file contains a specific function that does the job. Provided with the correct $lead_id, the function ‘delete_entry_from_gf_tables’ removes all persistant data from the database. Maybe we could access this function directly and force a cleanup during a gform_submission_hook of some sort.

– Jelle

This is what I did following bwhontwerpers road:

Find the file persistent_multipage_forms.php and inside set_post_content() function find the line that says:
update_option($entry_option_key, $entry[‘id’]);

and write just below it the following one:
update_option($option_key, json_encode(”));

it will clear all the user data related to the form.

Thanks for the quick fix berio. All is good now, although I was hoping for a solution that didn’t involve ‘hacking’ into the plugin source code. But still, it does the job, so thanks again!

– Jelle