GravityExport Lite for Gravity Forms vs GF No Duplicates

GravityExport (Gravity Form Entries in Excel) is the ultimate no-hassle solution for exporting data from Gravity Forms. Powerful new functionality is available with GravityExport! Save exports to FTP & Dropbox, export as PDF, and format exports for data analysis. Learn more about GravityExport Export entries using a secure URL When you configure a new export, the plugin will generate a secure download URL that you can share with anyone who needs the data (No need to log in!). Reports will automatically update as new entries are added. GravityExport Lite includes many features: Limit access to downloads—either make a URL public or require users to be logged-in with correct permissions Download reports from multiple forms at once Export entry notes along with entries Transpose data (instead of one entry per-row, it would be one entry per column) Attach entry exports to notifications Export Gravity Forms entries directly to Excel (.xlsx) Export your entries directly to .xlsx format. No more wasting time importing your CSV files into Excel and re-configuring columns. Export Gravity Forms submissions as CSV If you’d prefer to have your reports generated as CSV, GravityExport Lite makes it easy. Add search filters to the URL Once you have your download URL, you can easily filter by date range and field value. Configure export fields Save time generating exports in Gravity Forms: Configure the fields that are included in your CSV or Excel export. No need to set up every time! Documentation & support If you have any questions regarding GravityExport Lite, check out our documentation. If you need further assistance, read this first and our support team will gladly give you a helping hand! Requirements PHP 7.2 php-xml and php-zip libraries. The plugin will check for those. Gravity Forms 2.5 or higher Gain additional powerful functionality The full version of GravityExport unlocks these game-changing features: 📄 PDF Export GravityExport supports exporting entries as PDF! You can choose to have a PDF generated for each entry or one PDF that includes all entries. You can also customize the PDF output by adjusting the size, orientation, and more. 📦 Dropbox integration Save your form data directly to Dropbox. 👩🏽‍💻 Send reports to FTP Store reports on your own FTP server! GravityExport supports the SFTP, FTP + SSL, and FTP protocols. ⬇️ Multiple download URLs Create multiple export URLs that output to different formats and include different fields. 📊 Export data ready for analysis Make it easier to process your Gravity Forms data by splitting fields with multiple values into different rows. We’ve written an article that contains all you need to know about exporting data from Gravity Forms. Credits The GravityExport Lite plugin was created by Doeke Norg

Gravity Forms already has some built-in duplicate submission prevention techniques, including the No Duplicates setting for a field in your form, preventing the same field value from being used multiple times for the same form. Using this setting is a rock solid approach to avoid duplicate submissions, but it requires having a field in your form that you can consider as a source of unique data per submission. This add-on helps using the same idea, without requiring having a field to enable the No Duplicates setting, by dynamically adding a hidden input with a random token to the form, and checks the POST request received for this token value to prevent duplicate submissions. This will stop identical POST requests from being accepted for entry creation, like the ones that some browsers will send when the browser back or refresh buttons are clicked or when browser tabs are restored in mobile devices. Limitations If for any reason the visitor manually fills the form with the same information, and submits it again, blocking this visitor’s behavior is not within the scope of this plugin functionality. To put in another way, the add-on is intended to block automated resend of the same POST request data, it doesn’t block submissions voluntarily initiated by the visitor. If your site is still receiving repeated POST requests created before enabling the add-on, therefore not containing the token field, you would still receive duplicates for these entries. There’s no way for the add-on to be able stop duplicates for requests created before enabling the add-on. How it works: When the add-on is enabled a hidden input with a random token as value is added to each form dynamically in the front-end. When a POST request is received and handled by Gravity Forms, GF No Duplicates checks if this POST request has the token and if its value was used already in an existing entry for the form tied to the POST request. If the token parameter exists but is empty or there’s any form entry where the token value was used already, GF No Duplicates stops the submission. The form is replaced with an error message, which contains a link to the form page, suggesting the visitor to click the link to start a fresh new submission. Requirements PHP 7.0 or higher. WordPress 4.9 or higher. Gravity Forms 2.5 or higher. The page where the form is embedded must be excluded from cache (if you use any caching plugin or server cache, see note below). Usage Install and activate it as you do with any other plugin. Enjoy! Optionally, you can customize the duplicate submission message shown to users from the settings page or using a filter (see the FAQ). Note about Caching The add-on functionality relies on a random token generated dynamically, so for obvious reasons caching the page where your form is embedded would prevent the add-on from working as expected. This is not a limitation of the add-on but the expected if you’re serving a static version of your page, which is the only reason to cache a page, you shouldn’t never cache pages where you expect dynamic data. Most caching plugins provide you a way to exclude URLs from cache, this is for a reason, use it. There are some web hosting providers using cache at server level and not providing their customers with an interface to exclude URLs from cache (e.g. WP Engine, Kinsta, …), you can still ask your host support staff to add the exclusion for you. You can also use Fresh Forms for automated cache exclusion if you use any of the embedding methods and caching plugins supported (see Fresh Forms description for more details).