Where does the data get saved?

  • Resolved webcrawler2050

    (@webcrawler2050)


    8 years, 6 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m trying to find out where the data is being saved from my forms. We are trying to create a search function to “search” the data but I cannot find the tables nor make any sense of it.

    I have the following in the DB

    wp_nf3_actions |
    wp_nf3_action_meta
    wp_nf3_fields
    wp_nf3_field_meta
    wp_nf3_forms
    wp_nf3_form_meta
    wp_nf3_objects
    wp_nf3_object_meta
    wp_nf3_relationships

    Any advice would be greatly appreciated

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  • deeveedee

    (@deeveedee)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    I’m new to Ninja Forms, but will try to help. Looking at the available processing hooks might help you to understand the process flow: http://developer.ninjaforms.com/codex/submission-processing-hooks/

    My understanding of the form is that the “saving” depends on your form’s action(s). Forms have settings and fields. When the user enters data in the form, the data is validated (to confirm presence of required fields and compliance with restrictions (e.g. input masks) and then the actions are processed. You determine the actions.

    For example, I have a form whose only action is a Success Message. I added a filter (a ninja_forms_run_action_settings filter described in the link I suggested above) that does my processing and reports result status to the user. For me, this happened to be the best way to accomplish my intended result.

    Form data and settings are passed to each processing stage via the filters and actions. The way in which you “intercept” data and settings at each stage depends on the filter/action you select and the data/settings that are passed to it.

    Plugin Contributor Zach Skaggs

    (@wpnzach)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Hey there, @webcrawler2050! To add to @deeveedee’s answer, Ninja Forms stored your submissions as a private post type, nf_sub. The submission data is not currently saved in any of our tables.

    Because we only check these forums once per week, we strongly encourage you to reach out to us here with any followup questions in order to get a timely response: https://ninjaforms.com/contact/ There, we offer support free support directly to our Ninja Forms users with significantly more privacy and a faster response time.

    Thread Starter webcrawler2050

    (@webcrawler2050)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Hello,

    Thanks for this. I’m hoping you can help!?

    So what we are trying to achieve, is with NF.

    We have created a few ninja forms on the front end, to input data. An example of that is: https://www.webedev.co.uk/test-4/ The data isn’t saving via the webhooks. We need to link up the data to link to customer >> user >> asset

    So we resorted back to using the NF way of saving the data BUT we want to search this data and display the results but i cannot for the life of me figure this out. Can you offer any advice please?

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