Gravity Forms is the perfect tool for producing a survey that looks great. The challenge is how to display its results.
Options include:
- Gravity Forms in-built advanced survey capability
- Exporting results into a spreadsheet
- Our GFChart plugin
- Other plugins
- Custom coding
Gravity Forms in-built advanced survey capability
| Pros | Cons |
| – In-built, – Minimal configuration required, – Output is always up to date. | – Only displays on back end, – Utilitarian look may not be suitable for client presentation. |
Export results into a spreadsheet
| Pros | Cons |
| – Allows significant customisation. | – Cumbersome manual updating required, – Data always stale, – Spreadsheet proficiency required, – Limited support options. |
GFChart plugin
| Pros | Cons |
| – Display on front end, emails and PDFs*, – Output is always up to date, – Menu driven, minimal code, – Fully supported and documented, – Trusted, – No quibble full refund guarantee if not entirely satisfied within 7 days of purchase. | – Purchase required, – 80/20 solution that is not infinitely customisable. *not available in ‘Classic’ license. |
Other plugins
| Pros | Cons |
| – Might be a better fit for your exact needs. – Some options are free. | – Time to search, trial and evaluate, – Pedigree and future uncertain. |
Custom coding
| Pros | Cons |
| – Potential to create your perfect solution. | – Expertise / time / money required, – Future maintenance overhead, – PDF/Email capability has a significant overhead. |
The GFChart advantage summary
- Fast
- Versatile
- Dependable
Super simple survey example
Pie output examples
| Pros | Cons |
| – Simple intuitive graphic. | – Limited insights from small data sets. |
Bar output examples
| Pros | Cons |
| – Clear data interpretation – can see exactly vote numbers. | – More complex than pie. |
Note
Requirements
- Gravity Forms Elite license – includes the ‘Survey’ capability which will produce the horizontal radio button likerts. Gravity Forms Basic license holders should use standard radio buttons, and if CSS competent improve the formatting.
- GFChart All license – includes the ‘Survey Customiser’ capability which allows the segment/bar colours and order to be changed. GFChart Classic license holders will be able to produce charts with the default colours, and will need to order using a simple workaround of numbering segments/bars.