Custom Search Criteria Archives - Maxi Charts

Display results on confirmation page for current user

MaxiCharts allows you to display a chart on the confirmation page corresponding to the form the user has just filled. In order to do that, you have to add the shortocde inside the confirmation page and use the {entry_id} merge tag inside the shortcode as the value of the gf_entry_id parameter. Set something like this

Filter on date : date_start and date_end

More examples in order to filter entries on a starting date using date_start. All accepted input of PHP function strtotime will work. date_end parameter works the same. Examples

Custom Search Criteria – Display only logged-in answer

Count pre-defined GF entries properties

MaxiCharts GF can also graph data based on entries properties, as listed here : id integer : The entry’s Id. form_id string : The ID of the form from which the entry was submitted. created_by integer : ID of the user that submitted of the form if a logged in user submitted the form. date_created

Custom search criteria – Filter by Field Values

After an interesting question from academicdigital on the wordpress.org support forum, i would like to show now how to filter results by field values.

Custom Search Criteria – current user data

Here is another example of creating a custom criteria in order to filter form entries based on current user particular data. In this case, we are going to filter only entries which email field (number 2) matches with current user email.

Custom Search Criteria

The advanced custom_search_criteria parameter provide a way to pass to gravity form submission query, a set of filters, as defined by their API documentation here.

# of entries to fetch

The maxentries parameters defines the number of entries to get from the GF database : by default, maximum 200 entries are retrieved (which is Gravity Forms API default), increase at your own risk (performances).

All shortcode parameters

Here is the list of all shortcode parameters, briefly described, see examples for further explanations: