Pipe

Summary

The Pipe Recorder field is added to your available Gravity Forms field list only if you have installed the official Gravity Forms Pipe Add-On. This document describes the special field settings unique to this field. For information on the more common field settings that are also available for this field, refer to this guide.

Pipe field as displayed in the Field Library
Pipe field as displayed in the Field Library
Pipe field as displayed in the Form Editor.
Pipe field as displayed in the Form Editor.

Common Settings

This field uses only common field settings for the Appearance and Advanced settings. For a description of each of the common field settings, refer to this article. Below you will find description of specialty settings that are particular to this field.

Specialty Field Settings

All these settings are found under the field’s General settings tab.

SettingDescription
Video ResolutionThe resolution that videos should be recorded in.
WidthThe width of the video recorder field.
HeightThe height of the video recorder field.
Max Recording TimeThe maximum length that a recording can be.
EnvironmentThe Pipe environment settings to use.
Add bottom menuInclude the bottom menu within the recording window.
Autosave videosIf videos should automatically be saved upon submission.
Record audio onlyOnly record audio and not video while recording.
Mirror image while recordingShows the webcam flipped horizontally while recording. Text shown to the webcam can not be read. The final recording will not be flipped regardless of this setting,
Allow File UploadAllow users to upload an existing video file from their device in addition to recording live.

Screenshots

Image showing Pipe Record field general settings

Merge Tags

For more information on the use of merge tags, refer to these articles.

Usage

{Field Name:2}

Modifiers

This merge tag has no modifiers.

Validation

The Pipe field performs validation when it is marked as required.