Adding a Form to a Page - Carleton CMS Help Centre

For users to be able to fill out your form, you will need to add it to a page.

Gravity Forms – Original Version

Step-by-Step

Edit or create the page you would like your form to appear on.
Click Add Form above the content editor
Choose your form from the Select a Form dropdown menu.
You can also choose to turn off Display form title and/or Display form description by unchecking the boxes next to these options.
Click Insert Form
Publish or update your page.

Video Tutorial

Transcript

Module Four: Adding a Form to a Page

Hello and welcome to Module 4 of our Advanced CMS Training. This video is part of our series on forms, and will cover adding your form to a page.

On the page to which you’d like to add your form, click Add Form.

Choose your form from the dropdown menu.

By default, the form will display its title and description, but you can choose to hide the title and description by unchecking these boxes.

Then, click Insert Form.

Try It Out!

This series of trainings will follow a single form from creation to downloading responses. This practice activity requires you to have already created a form. If you do not know how to do that, you can return to a previous training exercise.

Open a page that would would like to add your form to.
Add your form to this page.
Save the page and click View Page
Try filling out your form! You can hit the submit button to see your confirmations and notifications in action, as well.

New Version of Gravity Forms

Our forms plug-in has been updated on some sites recently. If the back end of your forms looks like this (below), then you will need to embed your form on the page as follows.

Gravity forms backend view

Step-by-Step

Open the form that you wish to insert onto a page.
Click Embed at the top right
There are two ways to add a form to a page.3.1 Select the Page.
Under Add Existing Content, click Page. Choose your form from the Select a Form dropdown menu. Use the search bar to find your page.3.2 Copy the Shortcode
Click the Copy Shortcode button.

Navigate to the page where you would like to add the form.
Paste in the shortcode.
Update your page.

Video Tutorial

Module Four: Adding a Form to a Page - New Version

Our forms plug-in has recently been updated on many sites so you may see this version of gravity forms. In his case you’ll have to embed your form slightly differently.

Rather than doing it from the page itself, you’ll come into the form. I’ll click on edit this form. And if I would like to embed this form on a page, I’ll come up here to embed.

Click the embed button and there are two ways that you can do it.

1. You can select a form by searching here for the page. So, say I want to embed it on this Page. I would select this page.

2. Or you can copy the shortcode. I’ll copy the shortcode of this form. I’ll go to a new page. And I will just paste that shortcode into the visual view.

I’ll save that as a draft and now you can see that your form will show up!

Next: Downloading a CSV file of Form Entries

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