Advanced Filtering Changelog

This update fixes special character handling in conditional logic filters.

🐛 Fixed

• Conditional logic comparisons failing when choice-based field values contain special characters (e.g., >, <, &, quotes).

This release adds conditional filtering on joined forms with the Multiple Forms extension and enhances conditional logic for Views and fields, along with related bug fixes.

🚀 Added

• Conditional filtering on joined forms (requires Multiple Forms 0.6.0 or newer).
• Support for using merge tags in text inputs.
• Automatic "Currently Logged-in User" options for Populate Anything fields using WordPress users as a source.

🐛 Fixed

• Errors when using Consent field sub-inputs in conditional logic.
• Filters using {user:} and {created_by:} merge tags are now treated as no-match when the user is logged out.

This update improves View and field conditional logic.

🚀 Added

• Ability to search fields by "does not contain".
• Predefined options (e.g., Today, Tomorrow, etc.) for Date fields.

✨ Improved

• Created By field now support is empty and is not empty operators.

🐛 Fixed

• Filtering not working with radio button fields and Survey field Likert scales.

This update resolves a potential issue affecting View filters and field conditional logic.

🐛 Fixed

• A potential JavaScript conflict that could prevent configuring View filters and field conditional logic.

This release adds support for custom filter values and merge tags in multi-value filters, and fixes several issues, including a deprecation notice in Gravity Forms 2.9.1+.

🚀 Added

• Ability to define custom filter values when using the has ANY of or has ALL of operators.
• Support for merge tag processing in filters with multiple values.

🐛 Fixed

• Deprecation notice in Gravity Forms 2.9.1 or newer caused by the use of the GFFormsModel::matches_operation() method.
• An issue where a missing filter value, when combined with the has ANY of or has ALL of operators, caused the user interface to break.

This update adds new filter operators for fields with predefined choices, and resolves various filtering and logic issues.

🚀 Added

• is empty and is not empty operators for fields with predefined choices.
• Option to specify a custom value for the contains operator when fields have predefined choices.

🐛 Fixed

• Incorrect results returned when a Current User Role filter option was combined with another condition using an OR statement.
• PHP warning when filter condition value is left empty.
• Field conditional logic on a field from a joined form (via Multiple Forms extension) did not work.

This update resolves an issue where it was not possible to completely remove filters from a View.

🐛 Fixed

• Removing all filters or the last one caused them to reappear after saving the View.

This release fixes an issue with field comparisons involving merge tags and addresses a PHP 8.2 deprecation notice.

🐛 Fixed

• Incorrect results returned when comparing two fields, with the second field's value provided by a merge tag (e.g., "Field A is greater than {Field B:2}").
• PHP 8.2 deprecation notice due to passing a null value to json_decode().

This release resolves the issue where the "Add Condition" button would disappear when configuring View filters or field conditional logic.

🐛 Fixed

• "Add Condition" button disappearing when configuring View filters or field conditional logic.

This major update introduces nested groups of conditions with selectable AND/OR logic, role-based filtering, and a new View setting for displaying entries by the logged-in user. Read the announcement for more details.

🚀 Added

• Ability to create nested condition groups.
• Option to toggle the logical operator (AND/OR) for conditions and condition groups.
• Filtering based on the current user role(s).
• View setting to display entries created by the currently logged-in user, serving as a shortcut for the "Created By" filter.

Developer Updates:

• Added the gk/advanced-filters/max-nesting-level filter to modify the maximum nesting depth for condition groups, with a default setting allowing for nesting up to 3 levels deep.

This release fixes a critical error in the View editor and resolves a problem where the Duplicate Page plugin was causing the Advanced Filter's functionality to break.

🐛 Fixed

• JavaScript errors in the View editor caused by the Duplicate Page plugin.
• Fatal error when opening a previously saved View with no data source configured.

This update resolves an issue with the Merge Tag picker disappearing in the View editor, as well as several issues related to filter conditions.

🐛 Fixed

• The Merge Tag picker in the View editor's field settings no longer disappears in the Edit Entry layout.
• Filtering by progress now accurately interprets entry's '100%' completion rate as 'complete'.
• Processing filters for non-date fields no longer results in errors.

This release introduces support for the Gravity PDF shortcode in the field conditional logic, and addresses a PHP 8.1+ deprecation notice.

🚀 Added

• Added support for the Gravity PDF shortcode ([gravitypdf]) in the Empty Field Content area under field conditional Logic.

🐛 Fixed

• A PHP 8.1+ deprecation notice.

This release includes fixes for the View and field conditional logic.

🐛 Fixed
* "Form field ID #X is no longer available" error when adding conditional logic, despite the field existing.
* "Created by Currently Logged-in User (Disabled for Administrators)" filter not functioning correctly with field conditional logic.
* Incorrect results when filtering checkbox fields using the "is not" condition.

• Fixed: Issue with setting relative dates (e.g., "today", "yesterday") in the date input field

• Improved: The extension was refactored to facilitate future development and maintenance

• Fixed: Regression introduced in 2.4 where the "is empty" and "is not empty" conditions would return incorrect results

• Fixed: Incorrect results could be returned when the form has an upload field with the multiple files option enabled
• Fixed: Filtering numeric fields (e.g., Number) with empty values using the "is empty" condition would return all entries

• Added: Filters containing Merge Tags suffixed with :disabled_admin are ignored when the current user is an Admin. e.g. {user:id:disabled_admin} (learn more about this modifier)
• Improved: Choices filled by GP Populate Anything can now be selected

Developer Updates:

• Added: gk/advanced-filter/disabled-filters WordPress filter to modify Advanced Filtering filter groups and filters

• Added: Shortcode processing in the content that's displayed when the field value does not meet conditional logic
• Improved: Advanced Filter is now loaded only in the View editor
• Fixed: "Greater than" and "Less than" comparisons not working with the "Total" field

• Fixed: Setting entry's creator to "No User" would bypass the "Currently Logged-in User" filter

• Fixed: PHP notice when using "Any form field" with field conditional logic
• Fixed: Fatal PHP error when a filter is added and its operator is not modified

• Improved: It is now possible to filter only those entries that have been updated since creation
• Updated: German translation (thanks, Michael Eppers!)

• Fixed: MySQL error on certain hosts when "Date Updated", "Date Created" or "Payment Date" entry meta are filtered using the "is empty" condition
• Fixed: JavaScript error when a filter is configured for a multi-input form field that no longer exists

• Fixed: Incorrect results returned when filtering by empty/nonempty multi-file upload fields

• Fixed: "Created by Currently Logged-in User (Disabled for Administrators)" filter did not work with field conditional logic
• Fixed: Relative date comparison did not respect WordPress's timezone offset

• Fixed: Field conditional logic did not work with multiple-input field types (e.g. Address, Name, etc.)

• Fixed: Comparison of dates in field conditional logical results in a PHP notice
• Fixed: Checkbox field not working with field conditional logic
• Fixed: JavaScript error when opening field settings with conditional logic configured for a nonexistent field ID

• Fixed: Filter values containing certain characters (e.g., "+") would fail to be processed
• Fixed: Comparison of dates in field conditional logical results in a PHP notice

• Fixed: Relative date comparison (e.g., "Entry Date" > "tomorrow") not working for field conditional logic
• Fixed: Decoding of URL-encoded special characters in filter values (e.g., "%26" was not being converted to "&")

• Fixed: Allow using relative dates (e.g., "now", "today") in the date input field

• Improved: Merge Tags can be now be processed in field conditional logic filters
• Modified: Field conditional logic can only be configured for Multiple and Single Entry contexts

• Fixed: Properly replace Merge Tags in certain "Created By", "Date Created/Updated" and certain other filters
• Updated: Russian translation (thank you, Irina F!) and Polish translation

• Fixed: "is empty" and "is not empty" filters not working for Date fields

• Added: Conditionally display configured fields based on logic rules
  • Define content that is displayed when the field is not shown
• Added: Specify custom value when "is" operator is used in combination with predefined select values
• Added: Support for filtering by a multiple-choice field option that has no label
• Fixed: Advanced Filter not initializing when a View is created from within the form editor
• Fixed: PHP warning

• Added: "Is Empty" and "Is Not Empty" filter condition operators
• Fixed: Entries with empty field values showing up in results despite having the proper filter condition in place

• Fixed: Filters not properly saving when using the initial value of a filter drop-down choice
  • This also resulted in the possibility of only entries with empty field values being shown
  • To fix, please edit your View, re-configure your filters, and update your View

• Added: Date Updated to the available filters
• Fixed: Pre-existing filters created using Version 1.x and using the "All" mode were not able to be deleted

• Updated: Brand new interface!
• Added: Create seriously powerful filters using "AND" and "OR" together with nested conditions
• Added: Use relative dates with "Date Updated" and "Payment Date" entry details
• Fixed: The combination of search modes (Search Bar "All" mode in combination with Advanced Filter "Any" mode)
• Fixed: "Show only approved entries" forces uses "All" search mode, even when Search Bar is set to "Any"
• Fixed: When editing a View using Quick Edit, configured Advanced Filters are deleted
• Translations: Added Polish translation. Thank you, Dariusz Z!
• Updated: Now requires GravityView 2.0 and WordPress 4.4
• No longer works with the Internet Explorer browser
• Developers: Read what changed from 1.3 to 2.0

• Added: Filter entries by the role of the entry creator - big thanks to Naomi C. Bush from gravity+!
• Added: Filter by the roles of the currently logged-in user
• Added: Filter by entry Approval Status without needing the Approval form field - Learn how to filter by approval status

Important update - please update as soon as possible.

Fixed: With Gravity Forms 2.3, when using "Created By" filters, the search mode was allowed to be "Any". For Views with the "Any" setting, searches were able to be performed without filters applied.

• Fixed: Filtering by Entry ID not working in Gravity Forms 2.3
• Fixed: Filtering by relative date today was showing yesterday's entries on GMT websites
• Changed option names:
  • From "Logged-in User" to "Currently Logged-in User"
  • From "Logged-in User" to "Currently Logged-in User (Disabled for Administrators)"
• Updated Dutch translations—thank you, Erik van Beek!

• Fixed: Filtering by "Entry ID" not saving
• Fixed: Filtering by a checkbox or multiselect field can prevent viewing a single entry
• Updated translations: Danish, Spanish (Mexico), French, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil)

• Fixed: Fatal error in the Dashboard if GravityView_View is not set
• Fixed: Prevent accessing plugin file directly

• Fixed: Issue with "Any form field" filters preventing access to single entries
• New translations: Spanish translation by Joaquin Rodriguez, German translation by Hubert Test. Thank you!

• Important update: Fixed security issue introduced in 1.0.16 where logged-in users can see all entries.
• Changed "Created by (or admin)" filter to use gravityview_edit_others_entries capability instead of gravityview_view_others_entries

• Fixed: If a View has an empty "Any field has" filter, it prevents accessing single entries
• Updated: "Created by (or admin)" filter now also allows users with the gravityview_view_others_entries capability to see entries
• Now requires GravityView 1.15 or newer
• Added additional logging

• Fixed: Allow comparing against empty field values
• Fixed: Properly replace Merge Tags when using using "Any form field" filter
• Added: Chinese translation (Thanks, Edi Weigh!)

• Fixed: When saving a filter condition using a product field the operator "is" disappears
• Fixed: When searching by an option field there were no results

• Fixed: Post Category filters
  • Dropdown not populated with categories
  • Added "Is Not" option
• Fixed: Date Created filter not working properly
• Tweak: Increase the number of users displayed in the Advanced Filter "Created By" dropdown
• Updated: Translation textdomain from gravity-view-advanced-filter to gravityview-advanced-filter
  • Included updater library in translation strings

• New: Add "is not" option to GravityView Approval fields. Now you can show only unapproved entries.
• Tweak: Make it clearer in the logs when the extension is preventing displaying results for security
• Updated: Extension updater script

• Fixed: Not able to enter relative dates (like now or two weeks ago) in date field filters
• Updated: Extension updater script

• Added: New filter to disable the entries' filter "created by the current logged-in user" when user is administrator
• Updated: French translation

• Fixed: Error on WordPress Dashboard preventing Gravity Forms widget from displaying

• Fixed: Filtering by date fields when using PHP strtotime() values like -3 days or +3 weeks
• Added: Prevent showing anything if the View ID isn't set when filtering results
• Updated: Hungarian translation by dbalage and Dutch translation by @erikvanbeek

• Fixed: Entries were being shown for users who were not logged in

• Fixed: not filtering if only one filter is defined.

• Fixed: Do not show entries for non logged users when the 'Created By' field value is 'Logged-in user'
• Tweak: Added gravityview/adv_filter/view_filters filter to allow modifying the filters generated by the Extension
• Fixed: Auto-upgrade for Multisite sites
• Added: Dutch translation (thanks, @erikvanbeek!)

• Added: Support for relative dates ("now" or "-3 days") for date type fields
• Added: Support Gravity Forms Merge Tags. Example: "{user:display_name} IS Ellen Ripley"
• Fixed: Conflicts with non-Latin UTF-8 characters like "ß"
• Added: Romanian translation (thanks, @ArianServ!) and Dutch translation (thanks, @erikvanbeek!)
• Updated: Bengali, Turkish, and Spanish translations (thanks, @tareqhi, @suhakaralar, and @jorgepelaez)

• Fixed: Conflict with other GravityView search parameters
• Updated: Bengali, Turkish, and Spanish translations (thanks, @tareqhi, @suhakaralar, and @jorgepelaez)
• Fixes fatal error on Views screen when deleting a View

• Fixed: Scripts not being added in No-Conflict mode
• Added: Romanian translation - thanks, ArianServ!

• Liftoff!