Hi, this is about the add-on on Gravity Form integration.

Currently, wpDataTables uses the Gravity Form "Field Label" (ie a form's field question asked to the user) as the title for the Column of a table. Is there an option to use the Gravity Form "Admin Field Label" (in gravity form, when you click on a field, this is located in the "advanced" section) instead?

Example: 

- "Field Label" = "Please tell us a little about what you did last Saturday between 5pm and 7pm? We need the location, address, people you were with, etc..."

- "Admin Field Label" = "Alibi"

There are 3 reasons for this:

- Questions "Field Label" can be really long, and hence not convenient as column title. Of your you can change the title later (in column settings), but this can get tedious.

- wpDataTables  Table creation does not work if the "Field Label" exceeds a certain number of characters (e.g. 272character). It gives an error. So in this case, to use this field, the "Field Label" (ie the question in the form) must be reduced in size in gravity form! Not a solution.

- Report Builder that rely on wpDataTables  as data source use the column Name (not the displayed heather). The column name is made using the first 67 characters of the "Field Label" (after removing all spaces and special characters). This is not great, because to refer to the column, we must use this very long name. 

Letting the user "Admin Field Label" instead solves for all of this.

Serge

Thank you Milos. I look forward to hear back from you. 

FYI, the "Admin Field label" is freely accessible as any other field for each field of a form in the "pqlf_gf_form_meta" table of the database, in the Column: display_meta

You can see (in the below example) that the label is "Input your Email" but the adminLabel is just "email". So you can get it from the same place. Just another part of the JSON.

{"title":"Test From","description":"","labelPlacement":"top_label","descriptionPlacement":"below","button":{"type":"text","text":"Submit","imageUrl":"","width":"auto","location":"bottom","layoutGridColumnSpan":12,"id":"submit"},"fields":[{"type":"email","id":15,"formId":1,"label":"Input your Email","adminLabel":"email","isRequired":true,"size":"large","errorMessage":"","visibility":"visible","inputs":null,"autocompleteAttribute":"email","description":"","allowsPrepopulate":false,"inputMask":false,"inputMaskValue":"","inputMaskIsCustom":false,"maxLength":"","inputType":""

Hi, I also wanted to provide more explanation on this point: 

"wpDataTables:  Table creation does not work if the "Field Label" exceeds a certain number of characters (e.g. 272character). It gives an error. So in this case, to use this field, the "Field Label" (ie the question in the form) must be reduced in size in gravity form! Not a solution."

This creates 2 problem: 

1. In the backend: The field cannot be added to the table. If you try to add it, you get an error.

2. In the frontend table: The entry cannot be edited (even if the field is not in the table). When clicking on edit, the table freezes and never comes back.