GravityCalendar Changelog

This release enhances conditional logic, improves shortcode and event location handling, and resolves issues with HTML content and fatal errors in certain calendar feed configurations.

✨ Improved

• Shortcodes contained in the Event Location feed setting are now processed.
• Enhanced conditional logic:
  • Added support for using merge tags in text inputs;
  • Added 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;
  • Other fixes and improvements.

🐛 Fixed

• HTML content in the "Event Location" setting was not being allowed when the "Allow HTML content" setting is enabled.
• Fatal error when creating a calendar feed for a form with a Post Category field if GravityView was not active.

🔧 Updated

• Foundation to version 1.5.0.

Developer Updates

• Modified the gravityview/calendar/events/do_shortcodes filter to also determine whether to process shortcodes in the Event Location feed setting.

This release improves conditional logic and fixes incorrect time display when moving events on the calendar.

✨ Improved

• Enhanced conditional logic:
  • Added ability to search fields by "does not contain";
  • Added predefined options (e.g., Today, Tomorrow, etc.) for Date fields;
  • Created By field now support is empty and is not empty operators;
  • Fixed conditional logic not working with radio button fields and Survey field Likert scales;
  • Other fixes and improvements.

🐛 Fixed

• Dragging and dropping events on the calendar now correctly preserves the 24-hour time format when set in WordPress settings.

🔧 Updated

• Foundation to version 1.3.0:
  • New GravityKit global settings for logging configuration (level, type, cleanup schedule, retention);
  • A unified way to display admin notices across all GravityKit products;
  • Performance improvements and bug fixes.

This release adds more control over event links and calendar toolbar button labels, improves event tooltip display, and fixes missing form notification events in Calendar feed settings.

🚀 Added

• Additional options for configuring event links, including a custom URL and, if GravityView is installed, a direct link to a single entry page.
• Option to control the display of calendar toolbar button labels, allowing selection between short and full labels.

✨ Improved

• Event tooltip visibility and positioning to prevent display issues in certain scenarios.

🐛 Fixed

• Some form notifications were missing from the list of selectable notifications in Calendar feed settings.

This hotfix resolves an issue affecting conditional logic in feed settings.

🐛 Fixed

• A potential JavaScript conflict that could prevent conditional logic from being configured.

🔧 Updated

• Foundation to version 1.2.23.

This release improves conditional logic functionality and fixes a deprecation notice in Gravity Forms 2.9.1+.

✨ Improved

• Enhanced conditional logic:
  • Added ability to define custom filter values when using the has ANY of or has ALL of operators;
  • Added support for merge tag processing in filters with multiple values;
  • Fixed 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.

🐛 Fixed

• Deprecation notice in Gravity Forms 2.9.1 or newer caused by the use of the GFFormsModel::matches_operation() method.

🔧 Updated

• Foundation to version 1.2.22.

This release adds a simple way to access all calendar feeds from the GravityKit menu.

🚀 Added

• "All Calendars" menu under GravityKit to conveniently access and filter all calendar feeds in one place.

This hotfix update addresses a non-critical PHP notice in WordPress 6.7 and newer.

🐛 Fixed

• PHP notice in WordPress 6.7 caused by initializing product translations too early.

🔄 Updated

• Foundation to version 1.2.21.

This release improves conditional logic functionality, fixes issues with language selection and missing locales, and addresses a PHP deprecation error.

✨ Improved

• Conditional logic:
  • Added support for is empty and is not empty operators for fields with predefined choices;
  • Introduced a new option to specify a custom value for the contains operator when fields have predefined choices;
  • General bug fixes.

🐛 Fixed

• Language selection in the feed editor was not working correctly, and some locales were missing from the list.
• PHP deprecation error.

This hotfix release addresses an issue that prevented the calendar from displaying.

🐛 Fixed

• JavaScript error that caused the calendar not to display when event editing was enabled in the calendar feed.

This release updates FullCalendar to version 6, introducing features like multi-month layouts and expanded calendar language support.

🚀 Added

• Support for multi-month grid and stack layouts, allowing you to display multiple months at once.
• Additional calendar languages.

🔧 Updated

• Foundation to version 1.2.20.
• FullCalendar to version 6.1.15.

This update resolves the issue with external calendar feeds not loading and fixes a 404 error in the browser console.

🐛 Fixed

• 404 error in the browser console caused by a missing stylesheet.
• Events from external calendar feeds not loading.

🔧 Updated

• Foundation and TrustedLogin to versions 1.2.18 and 1.9.0, respectively.

This update includes several bug fixes and updates internal components for better performance and compatibility.

🐛 Fixed

• Calendar did not respect the setting to navigate to the first available past or future event when no current events were available.
• Copying text inside the event cell or tooltip was not possible even when the event was not editable.
• PHP warning due to an undefined array key.

🔧 Updated

• Foundation and TrustedLogin to versions 1.2.17 and 1.8.0, respectively.
• FullCalendar to version 5.11.5.
• Popper to version 2.11.8.

This release resolves an issue with the ICS export URL and updates internal components to improve performance and compatibility.

🐛 Fixed

• Calendar subscription links weren't working, preventing users from accessing and subscribing to events.

🔧 Updated

• Foundation to version 1.2.13.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented WordPress from loading third-party plugin translations after their updates.
  • Improved internal check for product updates that could still interfere with third-party plugin updates.

This release enhances the conditional logic functionality in calendar feeds, adds instant filtering of events, and fixes the display of events without end dates.

🚀 Added

• Instant filtering of calendar events.
• Ability to nest conditional logic filters and to filter entries based on the current user's role(s).

🐛 Fixed

• Events without an end date now appear on the calendar.

This release fixes an ICS export issue and sets event names as the default for ICS and JSON file names.

🐛 Fixed

• ICS export issue. Thanks to Sean for discovering the issue!

✨ Improved

• Use the event name as the file name when exporting events to ICS or JSON. Thanks to Karl for the suggestion!

🔧 Updated

• Foundation to version 1.2.12.
  • Transients are no longer autoloaded.
  • Fixed a bug that hid third-party plugin updates on the Plugins and Updates pages.
  • Resolved a dependency management issue that incorrectly prompted for a Gravity Forms update before activating, installing, or updating GravityKit products.
  • GravityKit product updates are now showing on the Plugins page.
  • Database options that are no longer used are now automatically removed.

💻 Developer Updates

• Added gk/gravitycalendar/feed/file-name filter to allow modifying the file name.

This release fixes a critical error when creating new calendar feeds, addresses issues with event time updates during movement or resizing, and updates internal components for enhanced performance and compatibility.

🐛 Fixed

• Time now updates during moving and resizing of an event.
• Creating a new calendar feed no longer returns an error.

🔧 Updated

• Foundation to version 1.2.9.
  • GravityKit products that are already installed can now be activated without a valid license.
  • Fixed PHP warning messages that appeared when deactivating the last active product with Foundation installed.

This release enhances security, addresses multiple issues related to conditional logic, resolves a compatibility issue with DataTables version 3.3 and higher, and updates essential components to enhance performance.

🔐 Security

• Calendars can now choose to "Enable security" that forces the use of a secret attribute on shortcodes. Learn about the secret attribute.

🚀 Added

• A calendar shortcode can now be copied by a single click on the shortcode field.

🐛 Fixed

• Fatal error when using DataTables with client-side processing enabled.
• PHP 8.1+ deprecation notice.
• Filtering by progress in conditional logic now accurately interprets entry's '100%' completion rate as 'complete'.
• Processing conditional logic filters for non-date fields no longer results in errors.
• "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.

🔧 Updated

• Foundation to version 1.2.8.
  • Transients are now set and retrieved correctly when using object cache plugins.
  • Fixed a JavaScript warning that occurred when deactivating license keys and when viewing products without the necessary permissions.
  • Resolved PHP warning messages on the Plugins page.

This release adds support for displaying multiple public calendar feeds on the same calendar and improves the performance of remote feeds.

🚀 Added

• Support for showing multiple public calendar feeds on the same calendar by separating URLs with commas.

✨ Improved

• Caching of remote feeds for 10 minutes to enhance performance.

💻 Developer Updates:

• Added the gk/gravitycalendar/event-sources filter to modify extra calendars displayed on a calendar. See example code.
• Modified the $extra_options array passed to the gravityview/calendar/extra_options filter:
  • Removed the ical_feed key.
  • Removed the ical_color key.
  • Added the ical_feeds key, containing an array of all public calendar feed URLs with this structure:
    • url: URL to the public calendar feed.
    • color: any valid CSS color.
    • type: ics or json.

• Fixed: Conditional logic in GravityCalendar feeds causes a fatal error if GravityView is not installed

• Fixed: GravityCalendar feeds now correctly handle relative dates (e.g., "today", "yesterday") in conditional logic configured for date fields
• Fixed: View's Advanced Filter conditions not being respected inside the View calendar widget
• Updated: Foundation to version 1.2.6

Developer Updates:

• Added: gk/gravitycalendar/events/custom-response filter to short-circuit the event fetching process and return a custom response

• Fixed: Excessive whitespace appearing in the categories section when using the block editor

• Added: Option to automatically attach an ICS event calendar file to form notification emails
• Improved: Performance when querying events on hosts with limited resources
• Fixed: Date picker not working in Conditional Logic
• Fixed: Deprecation notice in PHP 8.2+
• Fixed: Calendar feed's Conditional Logic not being respected inside the View widget
• Fixed: Fatal error when the View widget is configured to display all entries
• Updated: Foundation to version 1.2.5

Developer Updates:

• Deprecated: GravityView_Widget_Calendar::get_entries() method
• Removed:
  • GV_Extension_Calendar_Feed::calculate_fullcalendar_plugins() and GV_Extension_Calendar_Feed::convert_button_to_plugin_name() methods that was deprecated in 1.5
  • GV_Extension_Calendar_Feed::calculate_frontend_enqueues() method that was deprecated in 1.5.1
  • gravityview/calendar/settings/search_criteria filter that was deprecated in 1.5.7
• Added: gk/gravitycalendar/settings/db-batch-size filter to modify the number of entries fetched from the database at a time

• Fixed: Calendar Buttons and Link blocks not working in the Gutenberg editor
• Fixed: "Copy Calendar Feed URL" button not copying the URL to the clipboard
• Fixed: Multi-line description fields in calendar feeds would only display the first line of text

• Improved: Support for RTL languages
• Fixed: Events starting before or ending after the visible date range of the view were not being displayed
• Updated: Foundation to version 1.2.2

• Fixed: Incompatibility with some plugins/themes that use Laravel components
• Fixed: Timezone issues for all-day events in ICS feeds
• Updated: Foundation to version 1.1.1

• Fixed: "Greater than" and "less than" comparison not working with the "Total" field in conditional logic
• Fixed: It was possible for the "Calendar Controls" setting to become corrupted
• Fixed: All-day single-day events could span multiple days due to timezone issues
• Removed: Calendar formatting validation for the "Display Events from Another Calendar Feed" setting because the validation was too strict
• Updated: Foundation to version 1.0.9

• Updated: Foundation to version 1.0.8

• Fixed: PHP 8.1 notices
• Fixed: Fatal error on some hosts due to a conflict with one of the plugin dependencies (psr/log)

• Fixed: Calendar Feed URL wasn't loading necessary scripts

• Added: You can now show other calendar feeds on a calendar using the Calendar Feed URL setting (read how to add calendar feeds)

• Fixed: The plugin would display a notice requiring Gravity Forms 2.5 even if it's already installed
• Fixed: Fatal error on some hosts that use weak security keys and salts

• Fixed: It was not possible to remove an expired license key

Fixed: "Undefined index" PHP notice

• Fixed: Fatal error when loading plugin translations
• Fixed: Slow loading times on some hosts
• Fixed: Plugin failing to install on some hosts

• Added: Support for future "Event" Gravity Forms field type when choosing a date field
• Fixed: Plugin was not appearing in the "Add-Ons" section of the Gravity Forms System Status page

• Added: New WordPress admin menu where you can now centrally manage all your GravityKit product licenses and settings (learn more about the new GravityKit menu)
  • Go to the WordPress sidebar and check out the GravityKit menu!
  • We have automatically migrated your existing GravityCalendar license, which was previously entered in the Gravity Forms settings page
  • Request support using the "Grant Support Access" menu item
• Fixed: FullCalendar and Popper libraries were updated to the latest versions but not included in the previous release
• Fixed: Potential fatal error when parsing shortcodes

• Improved: Now you can use the {get} Merge Tag to filter displayed entries by passing URL parameters
• Updated: The name of the plugin is now GravityCalendar, so we updated shortcodes to use the new name. Prior shortcodes will continue to work!
  • [gravitycalendar] instead of [gv_calendar]
  • [gravitycalendar_link] instead of [gv_calendar_link]
  • [gravitycalendar_copy_button] instead of [gv_calendar_copy_button]
  • [gravitycalendar_export_button] instead of [gv_calendar_export_button]
• Updated: Use the GravityCalendar icon in the plugin menu and on blocks
• Fixed: Scripts and styles were loading on pages without calendars

Developer Updates:

• Updated: FullCalendar library from 5.10.1 to 5.11.3
• Updated: Popper library from 2.9.3 to 2.11.6

• Updated: Uses our new GravityCalendar icon in the Gravity Forms menu
• Fixed: Javascript error when configuring Legacy Widgets in the WordPress Dashboard
• Tested to WordPress 6.0.1

• Fixed: Invalid .ics file is generated when using a manual timezone offset (e.g., 'UTC-4' instead of 'America/New_York')

• Fixed: Calendar feeds not working due to the library not being included in the downloaded file

Note: This version requires WordPress 5.3 and PHP 7.4 or newer.

• Added: Calendar subscription links! People can now subscribe to your calendar feed in Google Calendar and Apple Calendar
  • Visitors can also download .ics files that can be imported into calendars
  • New "GravityView Calendar Link" and "GravityView Calendar Buttons" blocks to make it easy to share links to your calendars (learn how to use the new blocks)
  • New [gv_calendar_link], [gv_calendar_export_button], and [gv_calendar_copy_button] shortcodes (learn about the new shortcodes)
• Fixed: Styles not outputting when a calendar is embedded on block themes (in WordPress 5.9 and higher)
• Fixed: Translations not loading properly
• Fixed: Merge tags were not being processed inside Conditional Logic
• Fixed: Calendar height setting now allows all CSS units
• Upgraded: FullCalendar from 5.6 to 5.10.1
  • Improved accessibility
  • Many fixes to tooltip behavior
  • See the FullCalendar changelog
• Updated: Polish translation (Thanks Dariusz Z!)

• Fixed: Potential fatal error when Calendar is embedded on a page and GravityView is not installed. Calendar does not require GravityView, sorry for the issue.

The next version of Calendar adds great functionality that requires PHP 7.4. Please contact your host to update your PHP version!

• Updated: Now using Version 5.10.1 of FullCalendar. There are HTML changes as well as accessibility improvements.
• Improved: Calendar week start day now defaults to the value of the "Week Starts On" setting configured in WordPress. Read how to modify the week start date.
• Improved: Added "Entry Approval Status" option under Conditional Logic
• Improved: It is now possible to filter only those entries that have been updated since creation
• Fixed: Event description tooltip would be displayed underneath an event when using an Agenda layout with overlapping events
• Fixed: JavaScript error when a Conditional Logic filter is configured for a multi-input form field that no longer exists
• Fixed: MySQL error on certain hosts when "Date Updated", "Date Created" or "Payment Date" entry meta are filtered using the "is empty" condition
• Fixed: Removed a line of code that only works in PHP 7.0

• Fixed: Fatal error when trying to detect Gutenberg editor
• Fixed: Events without defined start/end time and spanning multiple days (e.g., September 28-30) would show as ending one day earlier
• Fixed: Plugin styles and scripts would load on pages that do not have embedded calendars
• Improved: Fully hiding Calendar feed options that should only be shown when a linked option is toggled

• Fixed: GP Nested Forms compatibility issue

• Added: New Conditional Logic that lets you filter events using AND/OR operators
  • Many more Conditional Logic filtering options are available!

Developer Updates:

• Updated: FullCalendar library was updated to v5.9 (see a list of changes)
• Updated: Popper library was updated to v2.9.3 (see a list of changes)

• Fixed: Line breaks ("n") appearing in event title/description
• Fixed: Fatal error when dragging and dropping events

• Added: Settings option to control the display of HTML content in event title/description
  • Please note that this option is disabled by default and you may have to update your Calendar feed settings
• Fixed: Display of event color swatches in Calendar feed settings

• Fixed: Events that had a start time but no end time were being shown as ending at 23:59
• Fixed: Fatal error when event has an incorrect start/end time (e.g., "00:00 pm")

Developer Updates:
* Added: gravityview/calendar/events/allow_invalid_start_date filter to allow events with invalid start date

• Fixed: Event titles would duplicate when navigating between months
• Updated: FullCalendar library was updated to v5.8 (see a list of changes)

• Improved: Event description tooltips are now interactive by default
• Fixed: Event tooltips will not show when the description is empty

• Fixed: Plugin scripts and styles interfering with page/post editor
• Fixed: Calendar Gutenberg block preview not being generated
• Fixed: Calendar controls setting not being saved in Gravity Forms 2.5
• Fixed: Loader animation in GravityView DataTables layout
• Updated: FullCalendar library was updated to v5.7 (see a list of new features)

• Added: Dynamic loading of events based on the date range displayed by the Calendar view
• Improved: Compatibility with Gravity Forms 2.5
• Improved: Synchronization with the GravityView DataTables layout
• Improved: The previously used tooltip library was replaced with Tippy.js v6.3.0
  • The tooltip element structure has changed and will break any custom styles
  • A custom gv-calendar theme is used that can be styled as per the official guide
• Updated: FullCalendar library was updated to v5.6
  • This is a major release that introduces breaking changes; please consult the v5.x upgrade guide
• Updated: Popper library was updated to v2.9.2

Developer Updates:
* Updated: New, updated and deprecated methods in the GV_Extension_Calendar_Feed, GravityView_Calendar_Ajax and GravityView_Widget_Calendar classes
* Added: gravityview/calendar/extra_options filter to modify non-core calendar options (e.g., AJAX URL, nonce, etc.)

• Added icon for GravityView 2.10 widget picker
• Fixed: Calendar would improperly display entries edited using GravityView's Inline Edit extension; thank you, Thomas!

Developer Updates:

• Added: gravityview/calendar/settings/search_criteria filter to specify search criteria for form entries with events.
• Added: gravityview/calendar/settings/sort_order filter to specify sort order for form entries with events.

• Fixed: Calendar preview fails to load until a new Feed is saved

• Fixed: Calendar preview throws an error when GravityView plugin is not activated
• Fixed: Multiple calendars sharing a single Feed ID can't be displayed on the same page
• Improved: DB query excludes entries with empty start/end dates
• Modified: End Date is no longer and unless specified will be based on the Start Date
• Updated: Russian translation (thank you, Irina F!) and Polish translation (thank you, Dariusz Z!)

• Fixed: DataTables View layouts no longer being displayed
• Fixed: Calendar preview not working inside the Gutenberg editor

• Added: Compatibility with Gravity Forms 2.5
• Added: You can now use shortcodes inside the Event Title and Event Description feed settings
• Added: Integration with the Members plugin
• Modified: Start time will not be displayed for all-day events
• Fixed: GravityView widget not applying View settings (e.g., filter conditions) to events selected for display
• Fixed: Event tooltips not may not appear for themes or plugins using Bootstrap tooltips
• Fixed: Two-day events without start/end time would display as a one-day event
• Fixed: Scripts/styles are enqueued when their dependencies are not registered
• Fixed: Calendar preview throws an error when a feed has not yet been created
• Fixed: PHP error when deactivating Calendar in GravityView Extensions installer
• Fixed: Calendar grid looked bad with some themes due to CSS margins

Developer Updates:

• Updated FullCalendar scripts to 4.4.2
• Added: gravityview/calendar/events/do_shortcodes Whether to process shortcodes in the event title and event description
• Added: gravityview/calendar/events/source_data filter to define form entries that will be used as the basis for FullCalendar events
• Added: gravityview/calendar/options filter to modify calendar options that are passed to FullCalendar
• Added: gravityview/calendar/events filter to modify the events array that is passed to FullCalendar
• Added: gravityview/calendar/shortcode/render/element_attributes filter to apply attributes to the calendar container element
• Modified: Stopped using gravityforms_edit_forms capability for access to Calendar settings. Now using gravityview_calendar capability.
• Modified: Event description tooltips now use .gv-tooltip and .gv-tooltip-arrow classes instead of .gv_tooltip and .tooltip-arrow
• Modified: Set .gv-fullcalendar table margin to 0 to fix display issues for the nested tables in the calendar output
• Fixed: scripts/fullcalendar/locales_dir_url filter was not being applied

• Added: Support for localization
• Fixed: Event description not appearing in calendar
• Fixed: Calendar not editable when using Members plugin
• Fixed: Calendar not updating to past or future events when there are no current events
• Updated: Polish translation - thank you Dariusz Z!

Developer Updates:

• Added: gravityview/calendar/default_locale filter to set the default locale. By default, it is set to the site's locale.
• Added: gravityview/calendar/scripts/fullcalendar/locales_dir_url modify URL path to FullCalendar locales directory. Modify this to use your own locales.

• Fixed: Entries were not being displayed on calendars

• Added: Entries can be displayed on calendars using the date they were created or last updated!
• Added: Setting to control behavior of the calendar when there are no events shown (see the options)
• Improved: Translated error messages
• Updated: Polish translation (thank you, Dariusz!)
• Fixed: Editing entries
• Fixed: Respect GravityView Advanced Filter settings for a View
• Fixed: Sample events were showing up in GravityView Views when there were no matching entries
• Fixed: Fatal error when GravityView isn't loaded or
• Fixed: Fatal error when get_editable_roles() isn't defined

• Added: GravityView integration
  • Show View entries on a new Calendar widget
  • Choose to show all View entries, or only entries currently-visible for the View
• Added: Gutenberg Calendar block
• Added: Visual picker for event colors
• Improved: Use sample calendar events until feed fields are configured
• Fixed: Fatal error when deactivating Gravity Forms when Calendar is active
• Fixed: Number of entries displayed on calendar limited to 20
• Fixed: Tooltip description added for the "Event Color" feed setting

Developer Updates:

• Updated from FullCalendar 4.1.0 to 4.3.0
• Added: gravityview/calendar/events/include|exclude filters to add/remove specific entries from rendering
• Added: gravityview/calendar/settings/total-event-limit filter to change max # of entries displayed on a calendar (default: 1000)
• Improved: Only enqueue scripts and styles for tooltips if there is an event description configured
• Fixed: Scripts and styles being added to all pages, not just pages with calendars embedded

• Launch!