Migrating between Formidable Forms and Gravity Forms

This page lists what GravityMigrate does with each kind of Formidable Forms field and setting, in both directions, as read from the migration code itself. The tables are generated from the plugin, so they change when it does. For the steps, and for the wording of the report the wizard shows before it runs, see Migrating forms from another form plugin.

Checked against Formidable Forms 6.22.

From Formidable Forms into Gravity Forms #

Formidable Forms field	In Gravity Forms
`text`	Single Line Text
`textarea`	Paragraph Text
`rte`	Paragraph Text
`email`	Email
`url`	Website
`number`	Number
`range`	Number
`phone`	Phone
`name`	Name
`address`	Address
`select`	Drop Down
`radio`	Radio Buttons
`checkbox`	Checkboxes
`toggle`	Checkboxes
`gdpr`	Consent
`html`	HTML
`hidden`	Hidden
`user_id`	Hidden
`file`	File Upload
`date`	Date
`time`	Time
`password`	Password
`credit_card`	Credit Card
`divider`	Section
`break`	Page
`likert`	Likert
`nps`	Rank
`scale`	Survey
`star`	Rating
`captcha`	CAPTCHA
`data`	Drop Down
`lookup`	Drop Down
`product`	Product
`quantity`	Quantity
`total`	Total
`signature`	Signature
`tag`	Post Tags
`form`	Repeater
`ssa-appointment`	Date

Formidable Forms tags that are furniture rather than data, so they have no field on the Gravity Forms side: break, submit, divider, end_divider, summary.

Read but not carried

Formidable Forms field	Why it stays behind
`form`	An embedded form. Gravity Forms has no field that holds another form, so it is not imported.

Fields that arrive with a note

Formidable Forms field	What the migration does
`credit_card`	A payment field. Gravity Forms takes payment through an add-on’s feed, so nothing writes one back.
`likert`	A survey field, which needs the Gravity Forms Survey add-on to write back.
`nps`	The same: a net promoter score is a survey field.
`scale`	The same: a rating scale is a survey field.
`star`	The same: a star rating is a survey field.
`captcha`	Spam protection: the keys live in Formidable’s global settings, so a carried field would refuse the submissions it exists to protect.
`signature`	Needs the Gravity Forms Signature add-on to write back.
`tag`	Post tags are written by a Gravity Forms post-creation feed, not by a field.
`form`	An embedded form. Gravity Forms has no core equivalent to write one back into.
`ssa-appointment`	A third-party appointment field, which only that plugin can create.

From Gravity Forms into Formidable Forms #

The Choose Forms card for a Gravity Forms form going into Formidable Forms, listing what changes on the way and what to set up before the form goes live

Gravity Forms field	In Formidable Forms
Single Line Text	`text`
Paragraph Text	`textarea`
Name	`name`
Email	`email`
Phone	`phone`
Address	`address`
Number	`number`
Date	`date`
Time	`time`
Drop Down	`select`
Multi Select	`select`
Checkboxes	`checkbox`
Radio Buttons	`radio`
Hidden	`hidden`
HTML	`html`
Section	`divider`
Page	`break`
File Upload	`file`
Website	`url`
CAPTCHA	Not migrated
Consent	`gdpr`
List	Not migrated
Password	`password`
Credit Card	Not migrated
Total	`total`
Product	`product`
Quantity	`quantity`
Option	Not migrated
Shipping	Not migrated
Coupon	Not migrated
Likert	Not migrated
Rank	Not migrated
Rating	Not migrated
Survey	Not migrated
Poll	Not migrated
Quiz	Not migrated
Post Title	Not migrated
Post Body	Not migrated
Post Excerpt	Not migrated
Post Category	Not migrated
Post Tags	Not migrated
Post Image	Not migrated
Post Custom Field	Not migrated
Signature	Not migrated
Repeater	Not migrated
Multiple Choice	`checkbox`
Image Choice	`radio`
Chained Selects	`select`

Form settings Formidable Forms cannot hold

These Gravity Forms settings have no counterpart in Formidable Forms. The migration names each one as left behind: Anti-spam honeypot, Entry limit, Require user to be logged in, Submit button conditional logic.

Merge tags #

Merge tags in notifications and confirmations are translated where both plugins have one:

Gravity Forms	Formidable Forms
`{all_fields}`	`[default-message]`
`{admin_email}`	`[admin_email]`
`{form_title}`	`[form_name]`
`{entry_id}`	`[id]`
`{entry_url}`	`[editlink]`
`{ip}`	`[ip]`
`{post_id}`	`[post_id]`
`{date_mdy}`	`[created_at format="m/d/Y"]`
`{date_dmy}`	`[created_at format="d/m/Y"]`