TutorialGenerate unique ID for Entry Gravity Forms

Maybe you want to generate a unique ID, code, number or combination of numbers and letters for each entry in Gravity Forms. This is very easy with the special Gravity Perk Unique ID.

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Star Rating

Ranking

Unique ID

Copycat

Address autocomplete

Autocomplete

GP Limit Dates

Preview Submission

Word Count

Likert Scale

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List Field Number Format

Make a choiceEnable Number FormatMerge TagsBoth

Likert Scale

Gravity Forms Survey Field Likert Scale

	Strongly disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly agree
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Preview Submission

Your name(Required)

GP Limit Dates

Date

MM slash DD slash YYYY

Select your date between today and 1 month ahead. You can only select Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in this period. That’s what this plugin does, and more. For example you can set fixed dates, ranges from today, etc.

Date +365 days

MM slash DD slash YYYY

This date must be exactly 365 days in the future.

Advanced Merge Tags

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Date

MM slash DD slash YYYY

Copycat

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Copy Field 1 to Field 3

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Copy Field 2 to Field 3

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Copy Field 1 to 3 and Field 2 to 4

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Address Autocomplete

Address

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Unique ID

Text

Unique ID Alphanumeric

Unique ID Numeric

Unique ID Sequential

Unique ID Sequential with Text Prefix

Unique ID Random with Text Suffix

Star Rating

Example ranking (order) field

• First Choice
• Second Choice
• Third Choice
• Fourth Choice
• Fifth Choice

Star Rating

Star Rating

ExcellentPretty goodNeutralNot so greatTerrible

Checkbox Images

Checkbox images

Checkbox Images

Radiobutton images

List Field Number Format – Activate Number Format

9,999.99 Number Format

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9.999,99 Number Format

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Valuta Number Format

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Rounding

Round up

Round down

 

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List Field Number Format – Merge Tags

List single column (Field ID: 1)

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Column total

Total number of rows

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List multiple columns (Field ID: 7)

Quantity

Price

Total

 

Add Remove

Column 1 total

Column 2 total

Column 3 total

Examples Modifiers:

:gwp_remove_accents	{Text:59:gwp_remove_accents}
:gwp_urlencode	{Text:59:gwp_urlencode}
:gwp_length	{Text:59:gwp_length}
:gwp_word_count	{Text:59:gwp_word_count}
:gwp_case to=upper	{Text:59:gwp_case to=upper}
:gwp_case to=lower	{Text:59:gwp_case to=lower}
:gwp_case to=lower_first	{Text:59:gwp_case to=lower_first}
:gwp_case to=upper_first	{Text:59:gwp_case to=upper_first}
:gwp_case to=upper_words	{Text:59:gwp_case to=upper_words}

Examples Merge Tags:

Date Field	{Date:63}
First day of next month
Next Monday
Monday this week

{Your name:72} rules

{Your name:72} on Names.org {Your name:72} on Behind the Name

Types of Unique ID’s for Gravity Forms

You can create three types of custom and unique codes for your Gravity Forms Entry:

• Alphanumeric Contains letters and numbers (i.e. gravitywp12z9)
• Numeric Contains only numbers (i.e. 20155512)
• Sequential Contains only numbers and is sequential with previously generated IDs per field (i.e. 1, 2, 3)

Add a prefix or a Suffix to your unique id

In the advanced tab of your Gravity Forms field you can choose several options for your Unique ID:

• Starting Number (in case it’s a Sequential ID) with an option to reset the numbering
• Lenght: how long should the unique ID be?
• Prefix: what should be ‘before’ every ID?
• Suffic: what should be ‘after’ every ID?

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