Gravity Forms capabilities

I got this now – first you have to set Gravity Forms access to the Role in [Miscellaneous] Capabilities. (we have 200+)

Then, you will see Gravity Forms and Flow and can control finer access as required.

Thanks

• This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by Brian_Milnes.

Thanks Brian

As an AAM newbie, I tried adding this in Miscellaneous: “gravity_forms”, but there was no visibility in AAM.

What are the exact steps to enable Gravity Forms in AAM?

Many thanks

Just to clarify above – I’ve got “Forms” displaying on the left WordPress Admin menu, to manage all our Gravity Forms. However in AAM it’s not displaying.

So would like to know how to enable G-Forms so I can grant individual Form ID access to specific user/roles.

Thanks

So – your user roles will not have access to Gravity Forms or Gravity Flow
Go to AAM
Select the Role [or individual user] that you wish to grant access
Click on Capabilities
Find Miscellaneous
find and check gform_full_access
Go to Backend Menu and control those Gravity Forms features that you want to enable/disable

see this video showing control of similiar features:

Thanks Brian

gform_full_access didn’t exist inside Capabilities so I manually created that in.

Then in Backend Menu, “Forms1” displayed for the first time.

When expanding that it has selection boxes for Forms, Entries, Import, Export etc available for restricting.

The question now is, where in AAM do I restrict a user/role to specific Form IDs?

Thank you

@panto and @brian_milnes,

Thank you so much for keeping this conversation going. So Gravity Form is a tricky plugin. It does not registers its own capabilities with WordPress core (does not append them to the roles & capabilities option in the database) HOWEVER uses the concept of “dynamic capabilities”. This is type of capabilities that are injected to the user object during the request to a website. That is why you’ll not see any GF capabilities on the Capabilities tab.

Plugin like Members explicitly have a piece of code that checks if GF installed and if so, fetches the list of capabilities from it. We are trying to keep AAM pure and do not reference to other plugins. So you best way to manage access to Gravity Forms is to recreate all capabilities (as you’ve already figured).

Another problem with GFs is that it does not use the concept of WordPress post types. Yes, the list of form may look exactly like list of posts or pages, however under the hood it is “reinvented wheel”. I’m sure the GF core developers had a solid reason to go this route.

I’ve obtained a copy of the latest GF plugin and will look if there is any way to integrate with it and if so, we’ll introduce a new free AAM extension to cover your needs. Currently I can’t provide any ETA on this as we are working on the next AAM version 5.5.

Thank you for your interest in AAM and feel free to ask more questions.

Regards,
Vasyl

Thanks Vasyl

Besides this GF issue – AAM has saved us from an enormous multi-user admin issue. Your work is brilliant. Especially keeping to the WP core.

Keep up the great work – we would happily pay for a pro version to incorporate your updates mentioned above.

cheers

I too am quite interested in this functionality. Today I went looking for the ability to manage capabilities for GF and came up short. Google brought me here. As wide spread as GF is, I’m surprised there aren’t more people clamoring for this.

I understand I can add them manually but really, there should be an extension for this. I’m happy to hear it’s under consideration. And while no ETA is provided, it has been 2 months so I’m just wondering if there’s an update on whether it might see the light of day?

Many thanks!

Just bought AAM today and am pleased so far. However, a Gravity Forms extension would be a HUGE help!!!

Thanks!