Form Plugin for form with one parent and multiple child sections

  • Resolved mrthrasher

    (@mrthrasher)


    7 years, 4 months ago

    I need to create a form for applications to a school. The form has two sections, one for the parents’ information, the other for the child’s. A family may apply for more than one child – they would fill out one parent form and 2 or 3 child forms. I need to be able to export that information so that I have a single row for each child that includes both the parent information and the information for that child. So the parent information needs to be able to populate more than one row if there is more than one child.
    Is there a plug in that can do this?
    Thanks!

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    I’m reasonably certain you could do this with Formidable Pro.

    Thread Starter mrthrasher

    (@mrthrasher)

    Thanks for the suggestion, Steve. Looks like Repeatable Fields is the feature that allows this. I’ll take a closer look.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Plus tabs and conditionals.

    Thread Starter mrthrasher

    (@mrthrasher)

    It looks like custom code would be needed to export the data as separate rows for each child, where each row includes both the parent information and the child information.

    https://formidableforms.com/help-desk/export-entries-to-csv-with-repeatable-section-on-seperate-rows/#comment-451375
    Jamie Moderator
    April 5, 2017 at 1:07 pm
    You can export entries directly from the child form, if you would like. If you want the parent form data included, then custom code is needed.

    My other option is to have all the children on the same form and split them out in Excel.

    I have done this quite successfully with Gravity Forms.

    The Trick:

    1. Create your Main Form with Conditional Logic. The logic in the form would show form fields or whole sections based on a form selection. (In your case. How many children?)
    2. You can use such logic to show ‘x’ typical sections.
    3. You can export the submitted forms to a csv file for import into Excel and pick conditionally the fields you want to include.

    In fact, there is a powerful API and integrations like Zapier that allows much more. Zapier can hook into the GF API to send form entry data to many other API’s.

    They are both commercial products, but worth every nickel (IMHO).

    Thread Starter mrthrasher

    (@mrthrasher)

    Thank you both for your suggestions. I appreciate the time and effort!

    It looks like all of the solutions require me to learn something new – which I love to do. But I don’t have the luxury of time on this project. I think that the parent form will need to be phase 2. They’ll just have to fill the section out twice if they have two kids in the meantime.

    Thanks for helping me to understand the choices.

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