How do Formidable/Gravity Forms integrate with WP Tables? Does it allow you to add form options into the tables or is it a separate form that pulls data from the table?
Would the WP table occupy its own page or can I added it to an existing page with shortcode?
1. When you set the editor input type to be "Single-value selectbox" or "Multi-value selectbox", it can be edited from within the cell when you enable "In-line editing". It would come up when you double-click on that cell. Please take a look at the attached screencast to see how it works.
2. Gravity Forms based tables can be edited, while Formidable Forms based tables cannot. That's the main difference between these two add-ons. They are add-ons that require wpDataTables and core versions of these two plugins installed and activated on your WordPress website to be able to work! However, integration with other Formidable or Gravity Forms add-ons isn’t confirmed, so we cannot guarantee that it will work.
For Gravity forms:
- Editing existing entry for multi-page form – Editing will work but it will be rendered as a single page form, the same way as it is on the Gravity forms edit page.
- Duplicate option not working for editing existing entries – Gravity form doesn’t validate this option on editing existing entries.
- Configuring table relations (foreign key) – This option is not available for Gravity based tables, but it is available with Formidable forms.
- Choosing editor input type – This falls under the first limitation. Because we are rendering Gravity form in edit popup modal it is not possible to choose editor input type.
Please note these limitations for both plugins with wpDataTables:
Unavailable options – Because we are using Gravity and Formidable own forms for editing functionalities, some features are unavailable in both table and column settings. These options are grayed out and disabled.
Searching and sorting with Server-side processing – After turning on server-side processing sorting and searching may start to behave unexpectedly. We plan to work with Gravity and Formidable teams to improve it in future versions.
3. You can display the table on any part of the page using the shortcode. However, conflicts with other plugins, themes and page builders are always possible due to the nature of WordPress. So, while we have a lot of users that place our tables in Visual Composer, some issues like padding and word wrapping are always possible.
Please let me know if you have any more questions, I'll gladly help.
Thanks!
Hello Matt.
Thank you for your interest in our plugin.
1. When you set the editor input type to be "Single-value selectbox" or "Multi-value selectbox", it can be edited from within the cell when you enable "In-line editing". It would come up when you double-click on that cell. Please take a look at the attached screencast to see how it works.
2. Gravity Forms based tables can be edited, while Formidable Forms based tables cannot. That's the main difference between these two add-ons. They are add-ons that require wpDataTables and core versions of these two plugins installed and activated on your WordPress website to be able to work! However, integration with other Formidable or Gravity Forms add-ons isn’t confirmed, so we cannot guarantee that it will work.
For Gravity forms:
- Editing existing entry for multi-page form – Editing will work but it will be rendered as a single page form, the same way as it is on the Gravity forms edit page.
- Duplicate option not working for editing existing entries – Gravity form doesn’t validate this option on editing existing entries.
- Configuring table relations (foreign key) – This option is not available for Gravity based tables, but it is available with Formidable forms.
- Choosing editor input type – This falls under the first limitation. Because we are rendering Gravity form in edit popup modal it is not possible to choose editor input type.
Please note these limitations for both plugins with wpDataTables:
3. You can display the table on any part of the page using the shortcode. However, conflicts with other plugins, themes and page builders are always possible due to the nature of WordPress. So, while we have a lot of users that place our tables in Visual Composer, some issues like padding and word wrapping are always possible.
Please let me know if you have any more questions, I'll gladly help.
Best regards.
Kind Regards,
Aleksandar Vuković
[email protected]
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