How To Export Gravity Forms Entries to CSV, Excel, or XML

To export Gravity Forms entries, go to All Export › New Export, select Gravity Forms Entries, and then select the form that you wish to export. Use the drag and drop tool to build your export. When this is complete, run the export and download your file.

Step 1: Create a New Gravity Forms Entries Export

Go to All Export › New Export and choose to export Gravity Forms Entries, then select the form to export. To continue, click the blue Customize Export File button at the bottom.

Step 2: Customize Your Gravity Forms Entries Export Columns

Gravity Forms entries data is found in the Available Data section on the right. Drag and drop the data elements from that section to the column selection area to add them to your export file.

To remove a column from the export, drag it outside of the selection area.

Gravity Forms Entry Fields

The available export data are divided into the following sections: Entry Data, Entry Notes, and Entry Meta.

Gravity Forms Entry Data

Basic Gravity Forms Entry Data is in Available Data › Entry Data:

• ID: The entry ID, a unique number assigned to each entry.
• Date Created: The date when the entry was submitted.
• Date Updated: The date when the entry was last updated.
• Starred: If the entry was starred, exports 1, otherwise, exports 0.
• Read: If the entry was seen/read, exports 1, otherwise, exports 0.
• IP: The internet protocol address of the entry author.
• Source URL: The web address where the Gravity Form entry was submitted.
• User Agent: Information on which browser the entry author was using.
• Currency: The currency for the site.
• Payment Status: Information on the payment status.
• Payment Date: The date when the payment was made.
• Payment Amount.
• Payment Method.
• Transaction ID.
• Is Fulfilled.
• Created by User ID: The ID of the user account which created the entry, if any.
• Transaction Type:
• Status.
• Form Title: The title of the form where the entry was submitted.
• Created by Username: The username of the user account which created the entry, if any.

Entry Notes:

Entry Notes for a Gravity Form can be found under Available Data › Entry Notes. The following fields are available:

• Note Username: Name of the account that made the note.
• Note User ID.
• Note Date Created: When the note was made.
• Note Value: Message from the note.
• Note Type.
• Note Sub Type.

Entry Meta:

The main entry information is found under Available Data › Entry Meta. This will show all form fields added to the Gravity Form itself. In this example, we are exporting a Gravity Form named "Contact Form", which has the following fields:

• Name - Prefix
• Name - First
• Name - Middle
• Name - Last
• Name - Suffix
• Email - Enter Email
• Email - Confirm Email
• Comments

Step 3: Download Your Exported Gravity Forms Entries

Once you've configured your Gravity Forms entries export, click Continue to verify your settings, then click Confirm & Run Export.

After the export has finished, click CSV to download the exported entries. By clicking the Bundle option instead, you can also download an import template along with the entries data. This template can be used to migrate the entries to another site using WP All Import.

Here's a sample export of Gravity Forms entries data:

Export Gravity Forms Entries — Advanced Topics

Exporting to Different File Types

Gravity Forms entries are exported to a CSV file format by default. To change this to Excel, take the following actions in the Drag & Drop interface:

1. Expand the Export Type panel.
2. Choose Spreadsheet.
3. Select either Excel File XLS or Excel File XLSX.

You can also export your Gravity Forms entries to an XML file:

1. Expand the Export Type panel.
2. Choose Feed.
3. Select either Simple XML Feed or Custom XML Feed.

Export Gravity Forms Entries Advanced Options

Expand the Advanced Options panel:

Use this panel to configure various export file settings. The settings differ according to the export file type. Here are the settings for the CSV file type:

1. Separator: By default, this is set to a comma. Another popular option is the pipe character (|).
2. Include header row and column titles in export: If checked, the first row becomes a header row with column titles. When unchecked, the first row contains the first Gravity Forms entry data with no header or column titles.

For information on advanced XML export settings, see exporting WordPress data to XML.

Filtering Gravity Forms Entries

Some Gravity Forms exports require only a subset of the entries. This subset can be based on any of the export fields described in Step 2 of this tutorial.

To select your entries, expand the Add Filtering Options panel near the bottom of the New Export screen. A filter consists of an Element, a Rule, and a Value:

Here are the values for this filter:

Element = Name - Last

Rule = equals

Value = Jones

This means, “Export all Gravity Forms entries with the last name of 'Jones'”

Frequently Asked Questions

How to Export Gravity Forms Entries to CSV?

Just follow the procedures in this tutorial and leave the export file type at its default setting, which is always CSV. After the export is complete, make sure to download the CSV option (as compared to the Bundle option, which is mostly used for data migration).

How to Export Gravity Forms Entries to Excel?

Follow the procedures in this tutorial except that you must set the Export Type to either Excel (XLS) or Excel (XLSX), depending on the version of Excel that you wish to generate. Again, make sure to download this same version (not the Bundle option) after the export is complete.

How to Import Gravity Forms Entries?

1. Go to All Import -> New Import in the WordPress main menu.
2. Choose how to load your data (i.e. upload a file, use a URL, or use an existing file).
3. Select your import file and choose Gravity Forms Entries as your import type.
4. Choose your target form.
5. Map incoming data elements to your target form fields using the Drag & Drop interface.
6. Run the import.

How to Migrate Gravity Forms Entries to Another Website?

1. Export the Gravity Forms entries that you wish to migrate. When you do this, download the Bundle option instead of a CSV file. The bundle file contains an import template in addition to the export data.
2. On the other website, upload the bundle file using WP All Import.
3. WP All Import will automatically know how to process the bundle file based on the settings it contains.
4. After the import is complete, review the imported entries.

See the How to Migrate Gravity Forms Entries From One WordPress Site to Another for more information.

How to Schedule My Gravity Forms Exports?

WP All Export offers multiple options to schedule your Gravity Forms exports. You can use either cron jobs to manually schedule your exports from your server, or use our automatic service to schedule them directly from our interface.

To learn more about scheduling exports of your Gravity Forms entries, see How to Schedule WordPress Exports.

What Happens When Gravity Forms Adds a Field?

We work with the Rocketgenius team to constantly stay on top of new features and fields coming to Gravity Forms. If you notice there's a new field we don't support yet, let us know and we'll get you sorted out.

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