Circular Tutorials

  • The tutorials are maddening. Every tutorial has another tutorial that must be read to fully understand and integrate the lessons of the tutorial being reviewed. The end result is a squirrel chasing its tail. Many of the tutorials are based upon prior versions of the plugin and provide examples which may or may not apply depending upon your eventual setup of the global settings. Incredibly frustrating.

    Their basic tutorial on creating your “First Custom PDF” is not workable. The very Form and very template given to upload do not properly work and display. Everywhere throughout this website one has to fill in gaps to figure out the product and how it works. Luckily, I have plenty of Snickers bars.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by calemaddy.
    • This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by calemaddy.
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  • Plugin Author Jake Jackson

    (@blue-liquid-designs)

    Thank you for taking the time to review Gravity PDF.

    For the latest v5 documentation (the current major version at the time of this review), we’ve attempted to write the development documentation tutorials so you can get the essential knowledge needed up front, and provide contextual links to read more in-depth information should you choose to. The four-part development documentation tutorial is meant to build on top of the knowledge gained in the previous tutorial, but there’s always room for improvement and so if you’ve any specific pages/sections that are unclear, or you feel should be improved somehow please provide a link to the specific page(s)/section(s) with a brief note about what you feel needs more polish.

    I regularly review the documentation in my support role, and I’m not currently aware of any out-of-date information in the most current version of the docs (note: v3 and v4 documentation is archived and accessible for users who need it, with a big warning displayed at the top of those pages to signify that it’s out of date). Could you please elaborate what isn’t workable in the tutorial “First Custom PDF” you referenced? At this point in the tutorial we don’t actually provide a Gravity Form to download, as the PDF template is generic and can be used on any form. It’s not until Part 2 that we provide a form to import, and I’ve personally verified both the form (where applicable) and PDF template in all tutorial parts function as expected.

    Gravity PDF is very powerful software, and you can do a lot with custom templates. Do we cover every use-case in the documentation and provide a tutorial for each one? No. The goal of the developer documentation is to give developers with existing knowledge of WordPress development the fundamental tools they need to bring their Gravity Forms PDF project to life with custom templates. The documentation is written and framed in that manner. This very old adage comes to mind when I think of the dev docs purpose: “Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime”.

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