The Gravity Forms Dropbox Add-On is now available. Integrate your Gravity Forms powered forms with Dropbox.
Use the new Dropbox Field to allow your users to upload files from their own Dropbox account when submitting a form on your site.
Simply add the new Dropbox Field to your form and users can then select files directly from their own Dropbox account via a Dropbox powered user interface integrated directly into your form.
You can also send files uploaded via a Gravity Form to your own Dropbox account automatically when a form is submitted.
Use Gravity Forms powerful built in conditional logic feature to determine when a Dropbox Field should be displayed, or when Dropbox upload integration should be triggered to fine tune exactly when the interaction with Dropbox will occur.
The Gravity Forms Dropbox Add-On is now available via the Add-On installer within Gravity Forms and the Add-On Downloads page.
So am I reading this correctly: it has to be uploaded to your WP site/server first, then can be sent to Drobbox? There's no way to just send/upload directly to Dropbox? I would think that's what most of us are looking for: and easy, simple way for clients to drag 'n' drop files to us, without having to have or know how to use Dropbox or other services. But without having to worry about file size upload limits on our own servers, as well as purging all the client's files, after they're synced to Drobox.
Perhaps Drobox doesn't allow this. But that would be ideal for me, and at least a few people I know.
Sorry for the delay in response on this one. Yes, you are correct. When uploading to Dropbox it will upload to your web server first and then it will take the file and place it in your Dropbox. Ideally the file would go directly to Dropbox. But unfortunately that isn't currently possible with the Dropbox API along with what would be involved from a javascript standpoint which would pose serious cross-browser compatibility issues. It's dicey and not something we could do reliably.
One thing to note, when using the Dropbox Field that the Dropbox Add-On includes if a user is sending you a file FROM his Dropbox using this field, and you've configured the Dropbox Add-On to also send uploads TO your Dropbox then no upload actual takes place at all. It's handled entirely by Dropbox. Obviously a Dropbox to Dropbox situation is going to be rarer than a standard file upload to Dropbox situation. But i'm always surprised by the wide array of people who do use Dropbox that aren't techies so it's still definitely useful that it works this way in that situation.
I'm going to look into another possible thing we could do. Dropbox added their File Request feature earlier this year which allows you to send a user a link that they can then use to upload files directly to your Dropbox. I'm going to see if the Dropbox API supports generating a File Request link like this. Then the Form Confirmation and Email Notification could include the Dropbox File Request link and divorce the file upload from the form entirely and instead make it a 2 stage process. Submit form with additional required information, receive Dropbox File Request link via the form confirmation and email notification that they can then click on to upload associated files. No guarantees as I don't know if these File Request links can be generated via the Dropbox API but if it's possible this could be another way to handle things.
This is Great!, it would be nice to see a Amazon S3 addon as well.
thank you,
Ryan
An Amazon S3 Add-On, along with Box, Google Drive and Microsoft's Onedrive are on our roadmap but I don't have a time table that I could give you for their availability. But they are planned.
Hi Carl,
When the files that are uploaded to the dropbox account, the files on the wordpress server are deleted immediately after. Could you please confirm if my assumption is correct? As when I did a test with this plugin, that was the case and it is the exactly functionality I'm after but just want to confirm with you.
Cheers,
Jamie
By default, uploads should be stored in only Dropbox (unless you have additional configuration otherwise).
I wanted to get clarification on this addon as these latest comments were over 2 years ago and the logic could have changed.
Similar to what Jamied asked on Jan 10th, 2018 - when files are uploaded using the Dropbox addon feed, are they stored at all on the WP server, or just uploaded directly to Dropbox?
If they are stored on the server, are they immediately removed off the server once uploaded to Dropbox?
Hi Nate, there have been no changes to how this works. Like normal forms with file upload fields the files are uploaded to your site. The Dropbox feed is processed after submission is completed, sending the files to Dropbox, once complete the local files are deleted.
Thanks Richard!
I’m looking at using this in combination with Advanced Post Creation and want to know if there is any way to get the Dropbox download link of the uploaded file during the process?
I have users submitting articles - which are a CPT - via a front end form and attachments are to be sent to DB but I want to use the download link within the article template. Is there any way to retrieve the link?
Hi Mike,
Please submit a ticket so you can chat with support about this... https://www.gravityforms.com/support/
Thanks!
Is the transfer from the webserver to the Dropbox location secure? Webserver uses https with certification authority cert.
Yes, file transfer to Dropbox is secure. To use the Dropbox add-on your site needs an SSL certifcate and the server hosting your site needs to be running a recent version of OpenSSL.