Gravity Forms is an excellent WordPress plugin, which allows flexible and easy control and creation of pretty much any kind of form in your website. Behind the scenes it has a very flexible integration with the WordPress system of roles and capabilities, which governs who can do what in your admin area. The code below can be cut and pasted into a small plugin or, easier, your functions.php to allow your editor role users to do everything with your forms, except for updating the plugin, installing add-ons and uninstalling. (You can probably work out which lines to remove to tailor this to your current situation, and if you give too many capabilities you can change add_cap to remove_cap to remove the capability from the editor role.) Once the new rules have taken effect you can delete the code and the effects will remain!
$editor = get_role( 'editor' );
$editor->add_cap( 'gravityforms_edit_forms' );
$editor->add_cap( 'gravityforms_delete_forms' );
$editor->add_cap( 'gravityforms_create_form' );
$editor->add_cap( 'gravityforms_view_entries' );
$editor->add_cap( 'gravityforms_edit_entries' );
$editor->add_cap( 'gravityforms_delete_entries' );
$editor->add_cap( 'gravityforms_view_settings' );
$editor->add_cap( 'gravityforms_edit_settings' );
$editor->add_cap( 'gravityforms_export_entries' );
$editor->add_cap( 'gravityforms_view_entry_notes' );
$editor->add_cap( 'gravityforms_edit_entry_notes' );
thank you for sharing this! very useful
Super useful!
Would you be able to help me with a snippet of code where I could use the add_cap for a specific form, to a specific user (or better yet a vendor)?
I am using GF and a woothemes vendor plugin which allows people to associate products to users (Vendors) and would like to be able to allow these vendors to export their entries from the GF I create specifically for them?
I could also add them to a new group I guess, which would sort out half the problem ie vendor1 = group1 vendor = group2 but how would I limit them to the specific forms rather than being able to export all the forms?
I don’t know off-hand if what you describe is easily possible. I suspect you might need to write a custom Gravity Forms add on. Sorry I can’t be of more help.
Thanks Simon! I’ll let you know what I come up with!