Title: Question about adding tags
Last modified: November 5, 2016

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# Question about adding tags

 *  Resolved [draig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/draig/)
 * (@draig)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-adding-tags/)
 * I have a volunteer form and I want to import the data into nationbuilder. Besides
   the usual personal info fields, we are asking 2 questions. One is how much time
   people have to give (radio buttons with 4 options). And the second is area of
   interest (checkboxes with 7 options)
 * I want to give people a tag in Nationbuilder depending on which options they 
   select for each of the two fields. It seems like the only way to do that is to
   create a feed for each possibility which means 4 separate feeds for the radio
   buttons and 7 separate feeds for the checkboxes. Seems kinda clumsy to have to
   make 11 feeds. So I’m wondering if there is another way I am not seeing.
 * Thanks
 * PS – at the moment I cannot make feeds at all, but I posted a separate thread
   about that issue.

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 *  Plugin Author [dabernathy89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dabernathy89/)
 * (@dabernathy89)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-adding-tags/#post-8401072)
 * You should be able to get away with using one feed. For a radio or dropdown field,
   you can use a merge tag to insert the option the user chose. For checkboxes, 
   if you choose the parent field (instead of an individual option), it will automatically
   give you a comma separated list.
 * For any of those fields, if you want to pass through the value instead of the
   label, you can change the merge tag like this:
 * {My Checkbox Field:1} —-> {My Checkbox Field:1:value}
    {My Radio Field:2} —->{
   My Radio Field:2:value}
 * See the GF documentation on merge tags: [https://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/article/merge-tags/](https://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/article/merge-tags/)
 * So in your case, the ‘tags’ box in the NationBuilder feed would look something
   like this:
 * `{My Checkbox Field:1:value},{My Radio Field:2:value}`
 * Which could end up getting passed to NationBuilder like this:
 * `area-of-interest-1, area-of-interest-2,four-hours-to-give`
 *  Plugin Author [dabernathy89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dabernathy89/)
 * (@dabernathy89)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-adding-tags/#post-8401084)
 * (BTW you don’t have to insert the merge tags manually- there is a button to the
   right of the text area that will open up a dropdown for inserting them)
 *  Thread Starter [draig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/draig/)
 * (@draig)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-adding-tags/#post-8401249)
 * Thanks for the quick and informative reply. It is appreciated since I am new 
   to Gravity Forms as well as this plugin. I just recently switched our organizations
   website from Formidable Pro (which I know well) specifically because of this 
   integration with NationBuilder.
 * That does indeed work, and well. I had not tried the “show values” option. Now
   I understand I can make the value the specific syntax of the desired NationBuilder
   tag. My needs are covered. Thanks again!
 *  Thread Starter [draig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/draig/)
 * (@draig)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-adding-tags/#post-8401276)
 * Actually, I have one more question. On a different form for sending comments 
   to our City Council, we have a “Do you want to volunteer” radio button field 
   with 2 options ‘yes’ and ‘no’. Is it possible to add a tag for ‘yes’ but not 
   add a tag for ‘no’?
 * I used 2 feeds and conditional logic, but now I wonder if there is a more elegant
   solution?
 *  Plugin Author [dabernathy89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dabernathy89/)
 * (@dabernathy89)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-adding-tags/#post-8401321)
 * Glad you got it working!
 * RE: your followup – I think that is a case where conditional logic makes sense.
   Another option could be to leave the ‘value’ for the radio field blank, but i’m
   not sure if that would have any unintended side effects.

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