Gravity Wiz Weekly 245

Greetings, wizards!

I took my kids trick-or-treating last night. It was so much fun! 🍬

I don’t know who came up with the bizarre idea of knocking on peoples’ doors and expecting a treat in return but I like it.

Hey! You should come knock on our door. We have lots of treats to share! Even if you don’t celebrate Halloween. 😉

Weekly Highlights: Clear is Kind

With over 70 products (both free and premium), it can be difficult to predict every combination that our adventurous customers will explore. We prefer to keep doors unlocked to enable as much exploration as possible.

When we discover a limitation, we document it in our Known Limitations section for each affected plugin. But, what we’re trying to get better at is also locking the door that might lead to that known limitation. The first two highlights from this week’s change log might clarify what I mean.

• GP Advanced Calculations: Formula validation has been improved to indicate that the formula is invalid if it contains nested conditions and also accept the use of merge tag modifiers like :choice_label.
• GP Inventory: The automatic Limit Dates integration will no longer disable dates if a date-scoped resource includes other scopes. Previously, due to this known limitation, some dates were incorrectly blocked as exhausted.
• GP Advanced Select: Not a known limitation but still on theme, the “remove” buttons that appear next to selected items in GPAS-enabled Multi Select fields can now be tabbed to, improving accessibility.

New: How to Show Gravity Forms Data in WordPress

Dani covers four ways to display your Gravity Forms data in your WordPress posts, pages, and more. This walkthrough has it all.

• Generate new posts
• Craft dynamic pages
• Build full blown GF-powered applications
• Custom PHP with simple examples

Did we miss anything? Give it a read and let us know in the comments. 😄

Plugin Update: Progress Meter, Exclude Refunds

Our free Progress Meter plugin lets you add a progress meter based on your Gravity Forms entries an absolute breeze. Count progress by payment total, the sum of a field value, or number of submissions. Plus, full support for customizing the labels. 2ez.

This week we updated the plugin to exclude refunded entries from the progress count when counting by payment total.

New Snippet: Extract First Character with Merge Tag

If you’ve not using Populate Anything’s Live Merge Tags are you even living?

Support Wizard, Matt Andrews, certainly is. He whipped up his second entry into the Snippet Library to help a customer generate a username that included the first character from the user’s first name combined with the full last name (e.g. dsmiff).

Product Updates

Gravity Perks

GP Advanced Calculations (v1.1.7)

• Improved formula validation to mark nested if statements as invalid. They are unsupported, but would show as valid.
• Fixed formula validation issues with modifiers in merge tags containing underscores (such as {:1:choice_label}).

GP Advanced Select (v1.1.9)

• Improved accessibility of remove buttons beside choices. They can now be tabbed to.

GP Better User Activation (v1.2.13)

• Fixed issue where editing the activation page with Avada Fusion Builder activated could result in the admin layout not looking correct.

GP Copy Cat (v1.4.86)

• Removed definition and usage of String.prototype.gformFormat() on the frontend to resolve conflicts with Elementor in some situations.

GP Email Users (v2.0.10)

• Fixed PHP 8 notices.

GP Inventory (1.0-beta-3.41)

• Fixed PHP 8 deprecation notices.
• Fixed issue where a known limitation was not enforced. Multiple scopes which include a Date field result in some dates being incorrectly blocked as exhausted.

Gravity Connect

GC Google Sheets (v1.3.10)

• Added gcgs_should_send_error_notification filter hook.
• Fixed issue where fields with multiple inputs would not fuzzy match correctly in the “auto map column” feature.