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stan
Member

I'm creating a website with MANY authors (100+).
I want each of them to be able to create their own custom contact form on their posts, as well as be able to organize the information users put into their contact forms.
Is this possible with gravity forms?

Posted 12 years ago on Sunday August 21, 2011 | Permalink
Chris Hajer
Key Master
You can give authors permission to create forms. I'm not sure you want to, but you can. But the permissions are not so granular that they can only edit their form and their entries. Here are the Gravity Forms permissions you can assign by role:
```
gravityforms_addon_browser
gravityforms_create_form
gravityforms_delete_entries
gravityforms_delete_forms
gravityforms_edit_entries
gravityforms_edit_entry_notes
gravityforms_edit_forms
gravityforms_edit_settings
gravityforms_export_entries
gravityforms_mailchimp
gravityforms_mailchimp_uninstall
gravityforms_paypal
gravityforms_paypal_uninstall
gravityforms_twilio
gravityforms_twilio_uninstall
gravityforms_uninstall
gravityforms_user_registration
gravityforms_user_registration_uninstall
gravityforms_view_entries
gravityforms_view_entry_notes
gravityforms_view_settings
gravityforms_view_updates
```
(Some of those permissions come from Gravity Forms Add-ons.)

I don't think the capabilities built in to Gravity Forms are sufficient to do what you want. If you assign all authors the capability to create forms, view entries and edit entries, they would be able to view all entries and edit all entries, not just their own.
Posted 12 years ago on Monday August 22, 2011 | Permalink
Chris Hajer
Key Master

An alternate approach could be to create one contact form, then embed that in the post template you're using to display the stories (or wherever you want the form displayed.) Then you could conditionally set the notification so that it's emailed to the post author only, and let the author's manage their contacts on their own, based on the information they were emailed. They could use their own address book or Excel or whatever works.

That way you would not need to give authors the ability to create forms, or view or edit entries.

Posted 12 years ago on Monday August 22, 2011 | Permalink
stan
Member

Thanks for your response!
I'll put that into consideration.
I appreciate it.

Posted 12 years ago on Monday August 22, 2011 | Permalink
Chris Hajer
Key Master

Please ask if you have any more questions before purchasing.

Posted 12 years ago on Monday August 22, 2011 | Permalink
pjeaje
Member

this is exactly what i want to do, have a contact form in the sidebar that will allow for someone to send an email to the post author with the subject line being the post title.

Is there a tutorial or an example i can upload to make this for my GF?

Thanks
Pete

Posted 12 years ago on Saturday December 10, 2011 | Permalink
Chris Hajer
Key Master

If you have already purchased Gravity Forms, please feel free to start a new topic and we'll address your question there. Thank you.

Posted 12 years ago on Saturday December 10, 2011 | Permalink

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