I do not want to hide the fields as one is the header and the other footer. I want ti displayed as such:
Header html
form fields
footer html
both in pdf and notification email. only way to do that is putting them in the form. but the end result is as such
header html
footer html
form fields.
i do not know what logic the allfields erge tag uses. you would think the same way the fields are layed out in the form. but it does not do that for the html fields.
To clarify, you mentioned in the original message that the native PDF Header and Footer settings are working fine. If you feel the need to add HTML fields to your form for other reasons, which you don’t want to include in the PDF (because the content is already included in the PDFs native Header and Footer), you can hide those fields
You should reach out to Gravity Forms support for help with your Notifications. We only support Gravity PDF. That said, you can always add HTML directly to the Notification Message setting.
I think I have figured out – sort of. the issue is the html field and how gravity forms and your pdf reads the same. with 4 html fields, it stacks the html first and then the form fields. On the notification email I manually made the order as such:
Header html
Notes html field
form fields
thank you html field
footer html
This is how it is set up in the form as well. Not using the allfields merge tag in the email. So email notification is correct now. In the pdf, I put the header and the notes html in the header field and put the thank you html and the footer html in the footer field. still did not fix it as the pdf picked up the html fields from the form and stacked them first. now i have several html fields. I will remove all html filds from the form as it seems like that is a bug with the allfields merge tag and the way they get stacked first. is your pdf also using the allfields tag and hence why the html fields are stacked together first?
got it to work by removing the html fields from the form and manually inserting them in the header/footer of the pdf. It is a bug the way the html fields are read and all stacked first before any other form field.
Glad you were able to find a solution 👍
It sounds like you may have a plugin or theme conflict with Gravity Forms, as out of the box the {all_fields} merge tag won’t output HTML fields. Best to contact Gravity Forms to help you diagnose the specific cause.
