Title: Does NOT work with Gravity Forms!
Last modified: September 1, 2016
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# Does NOT work with Gravity Forms!
* [Joel MMCC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joel-mmcc/)
* (@joel-mmcc)
* [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-with-gravity-forms-1/)
* I did a View Source to manually find the selector to use (“`#gform_?`” where “?”
is the _number_ of the particular Gravity Form to use) and entered that in. I
told the form to use labels of the same names as the Merge Fields of the list.
I generated and entered the MailChimp API Key (of course). The MailChimp list
for the account with that API key came up just fine, and I selected it.
* Forms filled out submit to WordPress just fine, and Gravity Forms logs them just
fine. But MailChimp apparently never even notices. No indication that they were
ever even so much as PINGed by this plugin (beyond setting the list from the
Settings page).
* I suspect that the issue has to do with the fact that Gravity Forms (does not
allow customizing the field “name=””” parameters, such as “``“. Instead they’re locked into having names such as “`input_1`”, even if I
go into the Advanced Field Settings of Gravity Forms and enter in an Admin Field
Label. That does _not_ change the HTML `` tag’s `name="input_#"` parameter.
It only sets the column name for the display of entries in Gravity Forms’s admin
back-end.
* Whatever the cause, until this is resolved, please don’t falsely advertise your
plugin as working with Gravity Forms when it doesn’t. Please update the Plugin
Description to move the “• Gravity Forms” unordered (bulleted) list item to the“
Does not work with” unordered list.
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/fuseforms-for-mailchimp/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/fuseforms-for-mailchimp/)
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* Thread Starter [Joel MMCC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joel-mmcc/)
* (@joel-mmcc)
* [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-with-gravity-forms-1/#post-7699797)
* Possible solution (also applicable to any other forms plugin that doesn’t allow
overriding the `name=""` HTML parameter for fields, if this is indeed the cause):
on the Settings page, after selecting the desired MailChimp list, do the API
call to retrieve the Merge Fields for that list, and for each provide a place
to type in the HTML Name of the form to map to that field, then do the mapping
as needed in your plugin.
* For instance:
* Custom form selector: [ #gform_2 ]
* **MC Merge Field: HTML Field Name**
• EMAIL: [ input_1 ] • FNAME: [ input_2 ]•
LNAME: [ input_3 ]
* That still requires the user to do a View Source or Inspect to obtain the actual
HTML field names, just as they currently have to do to obtain the custom form
ID.
* [Luke Cavanagh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukecavanagh/)
* (@lukecavanagh)
* [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-with-gravity-forms-1/#post-7699799)
* [@joel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joel/) MMCC
* The best way to integrate MailChimp with Gravity Forms is to use the add-on that
is offered. It works very well. You just add the API key in the settings, then
setup a feed on a form, then you can select which list to use.
* [qeldoq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qeldoq/)
* (@qeldoq)
* [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-with-gravity-forms-1/#post-9239739)
* I agree with Joel — it DOES NOT WORK. Because when I try to match up the form
with my Mailchimp, it refuses to let me see anything for the e-mail address.
It matches up with First and Last Names, it shows me the list of fields available
for every other variable, but not for the Email address, which is the critical
item.
* I have renamed the field to be exactly the same as in MailChimp, and it makes
no difference. Yet I have absolutely no problem with this if I do a csv export
and then import into MailChimp.
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