Gravity Forms Zapier Add-On allows you to integrate Gravity Forms with over 200+ (and counting) online services. Zapier enables you to automate tasks between other online services such as Salesforce, Basecamp, GMail and over 200 more. Capture data via a Gravity Form that automatically creates a lead in Salesforce, a new row in a Google Spreadsheet and a new calendar event in Google Calendar. All from the same single form submission. The Gravity Forms Zapier Add-On does not replace our existing add-ons such as MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, etc. but does provide you with a way to integrate with services that we may not already support via official Add-Ons. Just as we consider Gravity Forms a swiss army knife for WordPress, Zapier is a swiss army knife for Gravity Forms. In order to use the Gravity Forms Zapier Add-On you must have a Zapier account. Zapier is a paid service and pricing is based on volume and usage. You can find more about Zapier pricing here. Unlike most Gravity Forms Add-Ons, the majority of the setup involved in integrating with Zapier will occur on the Zapier side via their customer dashboard.
This does mean if you are having an issue with a Zap you have created in Zapier not behaving the way you expected you may need to contact Zapier support for assistance for issues that occur within their Zapier Dashboard, Zap setup and behavior. If you have not done so already you must first sign up for a Zapier account. This can be done quick and easy and includes a 14 day free trial which gives you access to every regular and premium app and has to task or zap limits. After the free trial you can continue to use the free plan or select one of the available premium plans. The Zapier Add-On can be installed from the Add-On manager within Gravity Forms in your WordPress Dashboard. To install manually follow the directions below: After you have installed and activated the Zapier Add-On there is not much you need to do until you are ready to integrate a form with Zapier. There are no global settings or API keys that must be configured. The Zapier Settings page that appears within the global Settings in Gravity Forms is only for uninstalling the Zapier Add-On and its associated data in your WordPress database.
Zapier integration takes place primarily on the Zapier site itself and then from within the Form Settings of a form you would like to integrate with Zapier. The first step in integrating with Zapier is going to be creating the form you would like to use to integrate with Zapier. This can include existing forms. It's best for the form you want to integrate with Zapier to already exist so that when you integrate that form with Zapier the list of fields associated with that form are up to date when you are configuring your Zapier settings on the Zapier site. A "Zap" in Zapier is what they refer to as their action. In Gravity Forms our Add-Ons refer to this as a Feed. In Zapier they call this a Zap. This is the action that you want to occur or be triggered when a form is submitted. In order to create your first Zap you must login to Zapier and then go to your Dashboard. You can then click on the "Create a New Zap" button to begin. Creating a Zap is a 3 step process that must happen in tandem with configuring the Zapier integration in Gravity Forms.
So the first part of the integration will take place within Zapier, the second part of the integration within Gravity Forms and the final part of the integration within Zapier once again. While it may seem confusing at first, it is easy to implement. The best way to make the process as easy as possible is to take advantage of the tabbed functionality available in most modern browsers. Before you begin I would suggest doing the following: Once you have both Zapier and your WordPress Dashboard open in separate tabs select the tab where you have loaded Zapied and do the following: Once you see the "Select a Gravity Forms Account" section with the Webhook URL and orange continue button, now switch to the tab where you have your WordPress Dashboard and do the following: Once you have created the Zapier Feed in Gravity Forms you can now return to the browser tab where you have Zapier loaded and do the following: The reason for the 3 step process is Zapier does not receive information about your form necessary for then using that data in the integration until AFTER the Zapier Feed has been created in the Gravity Forms Zapier Add-On.
Which is why it's a process that involves starting on Zapier, going to Gravity Forms, and then returning to Zapier to complete the process. We will be working with Zapier to streamline this process going forward, but this type of integration is much more difficult to do with a self-hosted solution such as Gravity Forms than it would be if Gravity Forms was a completely hosted SaaS solution such as Wufoo and Formstack. But we will continue to improve the process as we move forward in our partnership with Zapier.CodeAndroidGoogle Fit for Android: Reading Sensor DataEnvato Market has a range of items for sale to help get you started.Google seems to have a hit on its hands with its new social network Google Plus. Despite its still being a "field trial," available by invitation only, Google Plus seen strong adoption, with estimates that it already has over 20 million users. But there's been some concern and confusion over Google's "real names" policy, triggered by reports over the weekend of a widespread purging of pseudonymous accounts.
I am a strong supporter of pseudonymity online, having started my first blog many years ago under an alias. At the time, I was a graduate student, and it was safer for me to not reveal my identity. In an infamous op-ed that appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "Ivan Tribble" made it clear that "bloggers need not apply" for academic jobs. (Let's pause here for a moment to note th irony of his own pseudonym to write his screed). While there were a lot of reasons why I opted to blog under a pen-name, Tribble made it clear that many in power positions -- on hiring committees, specifically -- frowned upon those of us who were cultivating an online presence. Of course, a lot has changed in the six years since Tribble wrote his rant. Blogging has become a far more accepted and acceptable medium for scholars and students alike. We're all supposed to cultivate our online personae nowadays -- albeit carefully -- right? But there remains a long list of reasons why people might prefer to use pseudonym online.
Please read this Geek Feminism post to see who is harmed when we enforce a "real names" policy. A lot of these arguments about pseudonymity come down to questions of safety. "Safety" can mean a number of things: job safety, privacy, avoiding stalkers, avoiding violence. We talk a lot about the safety of students when it comes to their online behaviors. But it is often in terms of protecting students' privacy, protecting them from cyberbullies and predators. Safety could (and should) also refer to providing students with a place in which they are free to express themselves, without the prying eyes of parents, teachers, future employers or college admissions officers, places where they can explore a multitude of identities -- kids do that anyways, you know -- as they figure out who they are, who they want to be. Yes, of course students should be encouraged to claim their own work with their "real" identities. But one of the great things about the Internet, as the oft-cited New Yorker cartoon reminds us, is that no one here need know you're a student.