Flow Fundamentals

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We hope that very soon you will find Gravity Flow to be an invaluable tool that helps you automate your business processes in ways that save yourself, your customers and/or your employees time and thereby money. We understand that any time you add a new piece of technology to your website or business it can be a challenge to know exactly where to get started or how to best make use of the product to achieve your goals.

This Flow Fundamentals section has been put together to help you ramp up the learning curve quickly if you are already familiar with building/using Gravity Forms. If you want to follow a user guide that covers everything from square one, check out the Getting Started - Logo Design series.

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Step Types

Steps are the discrete tasks that your entry will perform as it proceeds through the workflow. Learn about how you can configure both user interactive and automated ones to build bespoke business processes using standard step types that come with Gravity Flow, its' extensions or available from other Gravity Forms plugins.

Common Step Settings

Learn about the settings which all step types in Gravity Flow have available to configure.

Accessing Entries/Workflows

Learn how you can use Gravity Flow blocks, or its' shortcode, to enable form submitters, step assignees and others to see and work with entries via the Inbox Page, Status Page and more.

Workflow Fields

Gravity Flow provides several field types, available in the Workflow Fields section of the Gravity Forms Form Editor, to make capturing data or assigning steps to the right resource simple.

Merge Tags

Learn how you can link to Inboxes, Entry Details pages and other parts of the Workflow through Gravity Forms merge tags.

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Approval Step Type

The Approval step is all about asking your potential assignees a yes/no question in relation to data that has been provided in the entry.

User Input Step Type

From a website users’ perspective the User Input step type is the closest equivalent to a standard form submission. That doesn’t mean that it is just about replicating the submission experience as the combination of assignees, display field and editable field settings can allow you to configure user input steps that serve a wide variety of use cases.

Outgoing Webhook Step Type

The Outgoing Webhook step is all sending a request to another system, possibly providing entry data to that system or receiving data to map back into the entry.

Notification Step Type

The notification step allows you to send notifications that were created in the Gravity Forms Notifications tab or define specific notifications in its' step settings.

Update User Step

The Update User Step provides a way to update the profile of any user on your WordPress site including any meta fields defined on it.

The Workflow Step Framework

The Gravity Flow Workflow Step Framework allows developers to add new step types quickly and with minimum effort. The Gravity_Flow_Step abstract class is used as the base class to create new step types.

Gravity Form Add-On Step Types

Many of the add-ons which Gravity Forms provides are based on feeds. With Gravity Flow active on your website, in addition to feeds being able to process a feed at the time of form submission, they can also be triggered as a step at any point in your workflow.