Gravity Wiz Weekly 246

Greetings, wizards!

It’s going to be hard to beat the headline this week so I’ll let you start there but do keep reading for your weekly dose of Gravity Wiz magic. ✨

Drumroll, please… 🥁

Gravity Forms 2.9: It’s here!

Gravity Forms 2.9 has arrived in style with two new field types and a more polished look in the form editor. Here’s the tea on the Gravity Forms team’s latest release.

• The new Multiple Choice field gives you greater control over how many choices can be selected and dynamically changes the input type (checkbox vs radio button) accordingly.
• The new Image Choice field works just like the Multiple Choice field but adds the eye-catching ability to include images for each option!
• The Orbital form theme is now automatically applied in the form editor and it makes the editing experience even more visually satisfying.
• Lastly, the Gravity Forms team continues to honor their commitment to accessibility with a host of improvements in the form editor for keyboard navigation and screen readers.

2.9 is currently being released with a staggered rollout but if you’re eager to jump the queue, you can always download it from your Gravity Forms account.

Advanced Save & Continue: Fallback Message

Advance your Gravity Forms Save & Continue functionality with auto-saving, auto-loading, and draft management.

The [gpasc_drafts] shortcode received a new parameter this week. By default, if no drafts exists, the shortcode returns an empty string. But what if you wanted to show a message instead, like “Sorry, no drafts found.” or “No pending applications.”?

The new fallback_message shortcode lets you add whatever message you want to display if no drafts are found.

[gpasc_drafts fallback_message="No drafts found."]

Community Spotlight: Email Customizer

Transform your Gravity Forms email notifications into sleek, branded messages with Email Customizer for Gravity Forms. This plugin lets you craft beautiful email templates powered by the Block Editor. Add logos, tweak colors, insert custom HTML, and personalize with entry data.

Bonus: Email Customizer recently added support for our GP Email Users perk! This means you can cook up a delicious notification email template with Email Customizer and then select that template to be used when when sending emails via Email Users. 🙌

Joe from Metaphor Creations shared this excellent start-to-finish demo:

Wanna learn more about this friendly duo?

New Snippet: Disable Form Submission

If you’re building calculators with GP Advanced Calculations or AI tools with GC OpenAI, you may want to use the form as purely interactive tool rather than a way to collect leads.

There are a number of ways to prevent form submissions but if you want to be absolutely sure the form can’t be submitted (and the submit button is completely hidden), this snippet is easy and bulletproof.

Product Updates

Gravity Perks

GP Advanced Save and Continue (v1.0.26)

• Added fallback_message parameter to [gpasc_drafts] shortcode. Example: [gpasc_drafts form_id="123" fallback_message="No Drafts"].
• Fixed an issue where blank drafts are created in the gf_draft_submissions table when Save & Continue is active on a form even if both “Auto Save and Load” and “Draft Management” are disabled.

GP Entry Blocks (1.0-beta-2.2)

• Fixed an issue where Live Merge Tags were not populated correctly when editing entries and changing values.

GP Inventory (1.0-beta-3.42)

• Added gpi_inventory_available_message, gpi_inventory_insufficient_message, and gpi_inventory_exhausted_message PHP filter hooks.

GP Nested Forms (v1.1.68)

• Added gpnf_nested_form_field_value PHP filter hook.
• Added gpnf_export_exclude_hidden_field_inputs PHP filter hook.
• Fixed child form styling if using Gravity Forms 2.9 or newer.

GP Populate Anything (v2.1.14)

• Fixed issue with Time field values not populating correctly in Gravity Flow Form Submission steps.

GP Read Only (v1.9.25)

• Fixed a compatibility issue with Legal Signing for Gravity Forms and read-only Time fields.

Gravity Connect

GC Notion (1.0-beta-1.7)

• Added namespacing to Guzzle (3rd party HTTP library) to prevent conflicts with other plugins.
• Fixed issue where required classes were not included in GF 2.9.
• Fixed issue where warning would sometimes be displayed due to missing form object.