GWW 283: What’s that, Copy Cat?

Greetings, wizards!

Have you noticed that AI tends to overuse em dashes in the content it generates? If so, you’re not the only one.

But I’ve been overusing em dashes long before ChatGPT began the AI onslaught! Must I give up my most beloved punctuation mark to distinguish my human-written content from AI slop?

Nay! I shall not! In fact, I may even use it more — like a lot more. 😂

Now, pray forgive me for my punctuation pity party, and accept this bountiful newsletter as fair pay for your patience. 😄

Top Picks: Product Updates

GC API Alchemist
✦ Connect Gravity Forms to any API — push, pull, and populate live data.

When mapping merge tags in your API Alchemist feeds, there wasn’t a good way to replace those with test data so you could get a sample API response and then map that data to your entry. This week, we’re very happy to introduce the “Test Merge Tag Value” section in the Response Mapping Editor.

Let me give you a quick tour. 🦒

GP Limit Dates
✦ Restrict Date fields by date ranges, days of the week, or linked fields.

This handy perk officially works with all Date field input types. Originally built for Datepickers, it will now also warn users when invalid dates are entered in dropdown or input-based Date fields.

GP Conditional Pricing
✦ Craft complex pricing rules for your Gravity Forms products.

Pricing rules will now default to using the field’s admin label if one is provided. You can disable this with the new gpcp_use_admin_label filter.

GF Rounding
✦ Handle advanced rounding in Gravity Forms, including by increment.

Love an opportunity to shine a light on one of our free resources. This week, we fixed an issue where the total was not recalculated when the a minimum quantity was enforced. Just one of a dozen delightful use cases for this plugin.

Workshop: API Alchemist

I am not overhyping things when I say API Alchemist is absolutely bonkers. Join us October 9th at 1pm ET for a live workshop where I prove that statement with a handful of in-depth demos, along with a heap of pro tips straight from the devs. And if you still have questions, we can’t wait to answer them!

Spellbook: More Free Plugins

We’re on a mission to make Spellbook your #1 Gravity Forms resource. A gift that keeps on giving. A portal to untold riches. An endless wishing well.

To this end, we’ve added another batch of free plugins. ✨

1. GF Dashboard Widget Controls
   Clean up your Gravity Forms Dashboard Widget by customizing which forms you see.
2. GF Spam Notifications
   Send email notifications when an entry is marked as spam by Akismet.
3. GF Flexible Form Schedules
   Allow your form schedule to apply daily or weekly with flexible scheduling options.

Each of these plugins can now be installed directly via Spellbook and will receive automatic updates. Tell us, adventurer, what else does your heart desire?

How To: Copy Fields Using Checkboxes

Copy Cat isn’t just a fun name, it’s also one of the most versatile cantrips in your magical arsenal. This week, our newest wizard (meet Dan) whipped up a helpful explainer on how you can use Copy Cat to copy values from one field to another. Did you know you can copy multiple fields at once? Freakin’ purrfect. 😸

New Snippet: Show All Countries On Specific Field

We had a Gravity Perks Pro user who primarily served customers in Ghana and Nigeria. They used Advanced Phone Fields global Countries settings to restrict their Phone fields to these countries. But there was one form that they wanted to allow phone numbers from any country, presumably to target an international audience.

And, in this tale as old as time, we wrote them a snippet. 🌹

Product Updates

Gravity Perks

GP Bookings (1.0-alpha-3.3)

• Fixed an issue where the gpb_availability_days filter was not being applied to the frontend calendar.
• Fixed conditional logic not working with Booking fields.

GP Conditional Pricing (v2.0.20)

• Added gpcp_use_admin_label filter for admin label support in pricing rules.

GP Limit Dates (v1.1.33)

• Added client-side validation for Date Dropdown and Date field types.

GP Page Transitions (v1.0.41)

• Added compatibility with WooCommerce Gravity Forms Product Add-ons.

GP Populate Anything (v2.1.46)

• Fixed an issue where dynamically populated fields using Post object type would return incomplete results when filtering by taxonomies with is_in operator on comma-separated string.
• Fixed an issue where Live Merge Tags did not display values correctly if a user’s profile language differed from the site language, resolving inconsistent locale-based merge tag processing.

GP Submit to Access (v1.0.8)

• Improved handling of shortcode inner content.
• Fixed issue where adding a Gravity Form block to the Gutenberg editor could throw an uncaught error.

Gravity Connect

GC API Alchemist (v1.0.2)

• Added new “Test Merge Tag Values” section to the Response Mapping Editor to make it easier to test requests when utilizing merge tags in the request body, query parameters, headers, etc.
• Improved error responses given in Response Mapping Editor.
• Improved logging of failed requests by including the response body in the message.

Gravity Shop

GS Product Configurator (1.0-beta-2.40)

• Fixed issue where the “Entries” settings section was incorrectly displayed in GS Product Configurator feeds without associated products.

Free Plugins

GF Rounding (v1.41.1)

• Fixed issue with minimum rounding and total recalculation.