Announcing GravityMath 2.5: New widget, block and shortcode for creating summary reports

We’re excited to announce the release of GravityMath 2.5. This latest update includes a new block, shortcode and GravityView widget for creating summary reports from your form data.

Summary reports allow you to perform calculations across groups of form entries, helping you analyze data and generate insights in ways that matter to your business.

What are Summary Reports?

Summary reports enable you to analyze data grouped by predefined choices, making it easy to calculate totals, averages, counts, and more for each category.

Here’s an example: Suppose we’re collecting data about company earnings in different industries. We could create a Summary Report that tells us the average revenue for companies in each industry.

How to configure Summary Reports

The best thing about Summary Reports? You can display them anywhere! Add Summary Reports to pages or posts using a shortcode or block, or add them to a View using a GravityView widget.

Using the Block 

To create a new Summary Report, simply add the “GravityMath Summary” block to your page or post.

Next, open the block settings to configure the report. The first thing you’ll need to do is select a source for the data. This can either be an existing form on your site, or a View in GravityView.

As you configure the report, the preview will update in real time. Here’s a list of the Summary Report parameters:

• Group by – The field you want to group entries by
• Operation – The mathematical operation to perform (either count, sum, average, max or min)
• Apply to – The field you want to perform the operation on
• Decimals – The number of decimal places for the output
• Sort by – Sort output ASC or DESC
• Display – The number of rows to display in the summary
• Group by label – The group by column title 
• Operation label – The operation column title 

💡 Pro tip: Learn more about creating Summary Reports using a block, shortcode, or widget.

Using the GravityView widget

To display a Summary Report that updates when you search or filter in a View, you can use the “Summary Report” widget in the View editor.

After adding the widget to your View, simply configure the parameters. There’s no need to select a data source as the report will only consider the entries in your View. That means it will also respect any advanced filtering conditions that you have applied.

The output of the report is a table containing the calculated values for the grouped data.

Take Summary Reports for a spin

With these new tools for creating Summary Reports in GravityMath 2.5, you can unlock deeper insights from your Gravity Forms data. We’re excited to continue delivering valuable features to our community while enhancing integration across our plugins.

Take advantage of this new functionality by updating your GravityMath plugin today!