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Gravity Forms has excellent support for form confirmations. As always, Gravity Wiz aims to take that support a little further.
Gravity Forms provides an easy way to display personalized information via the “Text” confirmation type. You select which Merge Tags (which represent submitted form data) and place them in the text confirmation as desired. When the text confirmation is displayed, the merge tags will be replaced with the submitted data each merge tag represents.
But what if you wanted to do this on a separate confirmation page using the “Page” or “Redirect URL” confirmation types? You could readily pass the required data to the page via the “Pass Field Data Via Query String” option; however, while this option allows you to pass submitted data to the confirmation page, it does not provide a method for displaying that data on the confirmation page.
Post Content Merge Tags provides the following key points of functionality:
Reclaim complete control over the styling of your Thank You / Confirmation pages. And use any Gravity Forms merge tags in the content of the page.
Reuse the same confirmation page for multiple forms. For instance, you might have 25 forms on your site but would like to redirect users from all of those forms to a single, personalized “Thank You” page on submission.
Implement persistent confirmation pages. For example, you could send the user an email including the confirmation page URL to their form submission, which they could save for future reference.
Ready to take your confirmation pages to the next level? Let’s dig in.
Getting Started
The following tutorial requires Post Content Merge Tags to be installed and activated on your site. Once installed, you can add merge tags to your confirmation pages, with ease. Let’s get started.
Steps
Step 1 – Create Your Form
Start by creating your form. There’s no special steps to take here. Build the form any way you please with any fields that make sense for your particular form.
Step 2 – Create Confirmation Page
Once your form is complete, it’s time to build the confirmation page. Create the page you’ll redirect the user to once they submit a form entry. It isn’t required for you to insert the page’s content during this step. You simply need to create the page.
Step 3 – Configure Form Confirmation
Navigate back to your form’s Settings page. Go to the Confirmations tab to set up a page redirect to the confirmation page you created in Step 2. Choose the page from the drop down, and check Enable Merge Tags in Page Content.
Set up a page redirect to the thank you page you createdThen, click Edit Page Content to add the desired merge tags to the post content of the confirmation page. Any merge tag that can be inserted into the “Text” confirmation’s “Message” field, can be used in the post content of your confirmation page. Post Content Merge Tags adds a merge tag button to the WordPress editor to simplify this step.
[eid] shortcode.
{Email:3}, where Email is the field label and 3 is the field id. Dropping the field id and just using the field label (like so: {Email}) is also supported. In fact, label-based merge tags are required if you will be using the same confirmation page for multiple forms. See below for more details.That’s It
Once you have your confirmation page completed, fill out the form you created. If everything was set up correctly, you will have a merge-tag-powered confirmation page!
Tips for using a single confirmation page for multiple Gravity forms
If you have multiple forms that you would like to redirect to the same confirmation page, the first step is make sure you’ve set the confirmation for each form to redirect to your custom confirmation page.
It is important that the field labels for each form match the merge tag label in the confirmation page template. For example if your field label is Email, you’re merge tag would be {Email}. If you changed the field label to Email Address the merge tag for that form would be different and {Email} would no longer work.
This is another reason why you might consider setting an admin label for your form fields and using this instead of the field label when adding your post content merge tags. The admin label is less likely to change and also allows you flexibility on the field label between forms.
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Hello,
Does this work with disable entry creation addon? I was hoping it would work on first load of the thank you page, but it doesn’t to be. Tried to remove the entry using GFAPI in after_submission hook, but same result. Any ideas?
Hi Corey,
This may require a custom code to delay the deletion of the entry until after the “Thank You” page loads. If you have a Gravity Perks license, please submit a ticket for this via our support form, so we can have our developers assist you with this.
Best,
Hi, It seem really good job but I’d like to display merge tags in “any” page or post content not belong with redirecting “confirmation page” Is that possible? Thanks
Hi Ahmet
That’s also possible with Post Content Merge tag Perk. What you would do is pass the Entry ID or encrypted Entry ID via the URL eid query parameter and you can use the field merge tag on any page without it being a confirmation page.
Best,
Very good and details article, but I have one question How can I add merge tags in links? For example, to prepopulate email address in links Here is an example: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/?authuser={email} How should I proceed in this case, please. PS: I’m using Elementor page builder
Very good and details article, but I have one question How can I add merge tags in links? For example, to prepopulate email address in links Here is an example: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/?authuser={email} How should I proceed in this case, please.
Pedro,
You should be able to add the merge in the merge tag in the link href or using the Block Editor href=”https://gravitywiz.com/?ref={merge_tag:1}”
Best,
hi i need show in notifiction part of merge tag example: main data in feild 111111 merge tag in normal mode show :111111 in need send 2 number of end merge tag send to notifiction. plz help me thanks
Hi Reza,
I am not really tracking your question very well, but it looks you need help with the modification of the output of the value in a field. If you have an active Gravity Perks License, you can get in touch with us via our support form with additional information on what you’re trying to do so we can assist you.
Best,
Hi Great snippet
I have a question, i use the elementor page builder, i create a page and insert textblock, this snippet not work, any idea????
Thanks
Hello Leonard, Since you are using the Elementor page builder, page builders do not typically run the content through the standard WordPress filters used by Post Content Merge Tags to parse and replace the merge tags. This is a feature we have within our Post Content Merge Tags Perk. You’ll need to wrap any merge tags with the [eid] parameter to wrap your merge tags to ensure replacement. If you need a license, check out our pricing found here. 😀
Hi. Can this be used on checkboxes form fields?
Hello Stephen,
Excellent question. This snippet is used for allowing merge tags to be used in your confirmation pages allowing you to have much more control over the styling and layout of the page. As for checkbox fields, you can use Gravity Forms built in merge tags to use merge tags within form fields. Here is the documentation for that Checkboxes Merge Tags. :)
Hi, got a couple of errors for encrypt and decrypt i.e.
‘GFCommon::encrypt() is deprecated since version 2.3! Use GFCommon::openssl_encrypt() instead.’
Updated both to ‘openssl_encrypt’ and works fine now.
Fixed. Thanks!
Hi i have copied the code and added to my functions file, i have set up one form that once submitted pre-populates another form all good but i cannot get it to add to the html block i tried adding {Name:5} as that the name and field id from form 1, obviously doing something wrong and help greatly appreciated
Thanks a lot, I have been using gravity forms for like years and wasn’t aware of this feature. its really cool one.