Sometimes I have a form that works fine, but one field or a choice in a field needs to be updated for future submissions. What are the best practices to administering these?
The options that come to mind are:
Removing the choice, and adding a new one (will this change past choices logged in submissions?)
Duplicating the form and needing to re-enter the payment info and other add-on settings.
If these changes are limited to field choices, use the new Multiple Choice field in Gravity Forms 2.9. You can then safely remove the old choices and add the new ones without effecting existing entries.
If it’s an existing form that uses standard Radio or Checkbox fields you’ll want to set their visibility to “Administrative” and then add a new Multiple Choice field to replace the now-hidden field(s).