Victor Font replied 2 years ago

That's a good question and the answer is I don't know. In the all the years I've been volunteering n Formidable Community Support channels, I don't ever remember seeing a question like yours asked. This is a first for me, but this is how I would try it solve the puzzle:

1. navigate to the Formidable Forms Knowledge base and click the "Extend Formidable Forms" tile.
2. Click on Formidable Hooks - for Developers
3. Click on Display Data

This is a list of documented hooks related to displaying data on your site. There are hooks to change aspects of the SQL query before the query runs. Any query that runs for a view, whether it is a Formidable generated query or custom query, must return an array of entry ids so the view can be generated. I do not know of a hook that will allow you to intercept the results of the query before the view is generated so you can count the returned entries, clear the array, and let Formidable do the rest.

Before the view is generated, you may able to use the frm_where_filter. The entire Formidable query is passed to this filter. You can actually substitute you own query. You could modify the where clause with an impossible condition which would force a return of no entries, but to do this you would have to count the number of returned entries with your own custom SQL before you could feed Formidable an impossible condition.

With this understanding, there are other hooks where it may be possible to achieve your desired after the query runs. These filters are frm_before_display_content, frm_after_display_content, frm_display_entry_content, and frm_display_entries_content.

I don't know when these hooks fire in the content display cycle or if you can use them at all without going through a significant reverse engineering process, which I can't help you with as a community volunteer. Please let know how you solve this requirement. If you find a solution, I'm sure other users will be able to benefit from it.