Edit a gravity form entry in the front end

  • Resolved dwaber

    (@dwaber)


    4 years, 4 months ago

    Hi I’m

    New to pods and already fan of it!

    I know it works, but I don’t know how to do it.

    I’d like to edit pods and also related list items with the gravity form plugin. But I read the docs and still have no idea how to make this?

    To make an entry with gravity forms is quite easy and there are also some videos.
    But how to edit a specific entry in the front-end, there is no documentation (or I didn’t found it).

    Can anyone give some hints for that? Where do I have to put this shortcode (in posts/pages/pods/pods template) and how look this shortcode for example.
    Any help is very appreciated.

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  • Plugin Contributor Jim True

    (@jimtrue)

    The ‘entry’ you’re editing needs to be fed from the Pods Feed or it will not work.

    Create a form that matches the fields you need to push into the post-type Pod that you’ve created. Then in the Gravity Forms Feed settings, select Pods and match the fields in that feed.

    At the bottom of the feed are the options to ‘Enable Editing with this form using current post” and “Enable Populating field values for this form using current post”. Those must be checked.

    The only way this will work for you is if you put the Form at the bottom of the Single Post Detail Template (or include it in your Auto Templates for the Single Post Detail Template). Then it will be populated with the field values for the current post and you can edit.

    https://d.pr/i/b0673k

    Thread Starter dwaber

    (@dwaber)

    Hi Jim True

    Thanks for the fast reply. Seems to work so far in this way. Is it really the only way or can I put a shortcode somewhere else (when I know the post ID for ex.)?
    I’d like to use the single Post Detail for the website readers, not the editors.

    If there would be a second way (which could be communicated with the form notification) like a edit-page especially for that, then I’d prefer that. If you have a shortcode example, then this would be great.

    Thread Starter dwaber

    (@dwaber)

    Hi,

    I’m asking for the above topic again, because I found a hook, which maybe a way to edit entries outside of the feed itself.

    https://docs.pods.io/plugins/pods-gravity-forms-add-on/hooks-filters-for-pods-gravity-forms-add-on/

    But I’m hanging, since I’m actually don’t know, how to implement it. I copies this snipped to wordpress plugin. How can I now make a link, to activate this function? Are there any further information for that (showcase or a short video)? That would help a lot (since english is not my mother language).

    The goal should be: I’d like to send to the responsible person, which has created the feed via form, that they can update their submissions by themselves. For that, I’d like to send them an email (perhaps through gravityforms or pods) with the specific link for exactly that feed.

    Plugin Author Jory Hogeveen

    (@keraweb)

    Hi @dwaber

    I honestly don’t think GF has a feature to let users change their entry.
    There is an addon called GravityView that claimes to do this.

    Otherwise you could prefill all fields with the previous entry and let users make a new entry. Don’t for get the ID field in that case..

    Cheers, Jory

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