GravityImport Changelog

This update improves GravityView's Approval Status field imports and fixes PHP-related issues.

✨ Improved

• Importing GravityView’s Approval Status values now works with both text labels ("Approved", "Disapproved", "Unapproved") and their numeric equivalents (1, 2, 3).

🐛 Fixed

• PHP 8.1+ warnings and intl extension conflict on some hosts.

🔧 Updated

• Foundation to version 1.3.1:
  • 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 update improves import reliability by better managing server resources during large imports.

✨ Improved

• Import performance and reliability have been enhanced with smarter memory and timeout management.
• The import process now better detects available server resources and adjusts accordingly.
• Large CSV imports are now more stable and less likely to fail due to resource constraints.

🔧 Updated

• Foundation to version 1.2.25.

💻 Developer Updates

• Refactored server resource management into a dedicated Server helper class.

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 updates internal components and adds a filter to assist in troubleshooting and preventing network errors.

🔄 Updated

• Foundation was updated to version 1.2.17.

💻 Developer Updates

• Added gk/gravityimport/rest/request-validation-skip-params filter to allow customization of which REST request parameters are excluded from validation when processing batch requests.

This release introduces a new filter for developers to modify UI data, resolves a PHP 8.1+ deprecation notice, and updates the Foundation framework, enhancing support for sites that use object caching plugins.

🐛 Fixed

• A deprecation notice in PHP 8.1+ caused by passing null as a parameter to built-in string functions.

🔄 Updated

• Foundation was updated to version 1.2.7.
  • Improved the setting and retrieval of transients when using object cache plugins.
  • Fixed a JavaScript warning that appeared during the deactivation of license keys.

💻 Developer Updates

• Added a gk/gravityimport/ui/form-data filter to modify the form data object for use in the UI.

• Fixed: Auto-mapping of the User IP field not working
• Improved: Support for RTL languages
• Updated: Foundation to version 1.2.2

• Updated: Foundation to version 1.1.1

• Fixed: Incompatibility with some plugins/themes that use Laravel components
• Updated: Foundation to version 1.0.12

Note: GravityImport now requires PHP 7.2 or newer

• Added: Option to ignore field conditional logic during import
• Updated: Foundation to version 1.0.10

• 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: 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

• Fixed: Plugin was not appearing in the "Add-Ons" section of the Gravity Forms System Status page

• Fixed: Potential error when the plugin tries to log an unsuccessful operation

• Fixed: Error when trying to activate license keys

• 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 GravityImport license, which was previously entered in the Gravity Forms settings page
  • Request support using the "Grant Support Access" menu item

Developer Updates:

• Removed actions:
  • gravityview/import/settings/before
  • gravityview/import/settings/after
  • gravityview-import/before-settings
  • gravityview-import/after-settings

• Fixed: GravityImport license section was missing from the Gravity Forms Settings screen

• Fixed: The option to import entries was missing from the Gravity Forms Entries and WordPress Import screens

• GravityView (the company) is now GravityKit and this plugin is now called GravityImport!
• Fixed: It was not possible to access form field properties in Gravity Forms 2.6+ if the form was created during import

Developer Updates:

IMPORTANT: GVImport_Entries namespace was renamed to GravityKitGravityImport and future plugin versions will see similar name changes to the REST namespace, constants, and hooks

• Tested with WordPress 5.9
• Improved: Warning message that's displayed when CSV data is mapped to an Entry ID field now clearly states that all existing entry data will be deleted
• Fixed: Import fails to start when pt_PT_ao90 (variant of pt_PT) locale is used

• Fixed: Import would fail if GravityExport is installed

• Fixed: New form creation capabilities were being checked when importing into an existing form
• Fixed: If specified, hours and minutes were not being saved when updating "Entry Date", "Entry Updated Date" and "Payment Date" entry properties

• Fixed: Zeros could not be imported into a number field

• Fixed: Compatibility with Gravity Forms Zero Spam plugin
• Fixed: Import may silently fail when the database contains a large number of entries (thanks, Alexander St. John!)
• Fixed: PHP warnings when running Gravity Forms Entries in Excel
• Tweak: Modified code to improve future support for Image Hopper

• Fixed: Gravity Forms User Registration feed was not being processed

• Import Entries now requires PHP version 5.6 or newer
• Added: Support for WordPress 5.6
• Improved: Allow setting UTC timezone (as expected by WordPress) for "Entry Date", "Entry Updated Date" and "Payment Date" entry properties
• Improved: Gravity Forms 2.5 support
• Fixed: Importing Multiple Files for the File Upload field
• Updated: Turkish translation (thanks, Süha!) and Russian translation (thanks, Irina!)

• Fixed: Fatal error when Gravity Forms is inactive
• Fixed: PHP warnings in WordPress 5.5
• Improved: Support for Gravity Forms 2.5

• Added support for Gravity Forms 2.5
• Updated: Polish translation (thanks, Dariusz!)

• Improved: Reliability when importing large CSVs
  • Import requests will be automatically re-attempted if they fail
  • Memory usage is improved, which should help for sites on shared hosting
• Fixed: Import error message not properly displayed
• Fixed: When the import was interrupted, the last record would not have its status set to 'processed', so resuming the import would start from the next record.

• Added: Button to unmap all fields with a single click
• Improved: Allow importing checkbox field data from a single CSV column
• Fixed: Import would break if a form had submit button conditional logic enabled
• Fixed: Date in "YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss" format not being recognized as valid
• Fixed: Empty Entry Notes objects not being recognized as valid

• Fixed: When updating entries, they become unapproved (and other entry meta details cleared)
• Fixed: Empty Signature field values were not properly handled
• Fixed: Duplicated successful import message
• Fixed: Fatal error possible when activating a development version of Import Entries

• Fixed: "Beacon is not defined" error when navigating to Import Entries screen
• Fixed: Time in "H:MM AM" format was being recognized as valid when it wasn't
• Fixed: Checkbox/Radio/Drop Down fields with "No" or "Yes" values are now imported properly
• Fixed: Issue importing empty Multi-Select fields

• Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 5.3
• Fixed: Appearance-only conflict with WordPress 5.3
• Fixed: When CSVs contained invalid characters, the CSV containing the errors would fail to be generated
• Fixed: PHP warnings on the Gravity Forms logging page

• Fixed: PHP error on servers running PHP 5.6
• Fixed: Compatibility with the Invisible reCaptcha plugin
• Fixed: Format the number of rejected items during an import according to locale
• Fixed: Sometimes error logs were empty

Developer Updates:

• Added: gravityview/import/run/batch filter to alter the batch before it's run

• Improved: Force Gravity Forms to show whether the Add-On Feeds table exists in the database
• Fixed: Disable Gravity Forms Akismet integration when importing entries
• Fixed: Compatibility with the Zero Spam plugin
• Fixed: Use POST instead of PUT for REST API calls, for compatibility purposes
• Fixed: Warnings on malformed or empty Entry Notes fields
• Fixed: Invalid UTF-8 character breaks the field mapping screen
• Fixed: Minor display issues with WordPress 5.3
• Fixed: JavaScript errors in field mapping
• Updated: Russian translation (thanks, Viktor S!)

• Improved: Allow changing Name field labels when creating a new form
• Improved: Lots of improvements to error handling when sites are unresponsive or plugins conflict
• Improved: Make sure to always show Feed database tables on the Gravity Forms System Status page
• Fixed: Allow configuring payment date format
• Fixed: Make sure that Feeds are not processed unless checked
• Fixed: Warnings when importing products with Radio input types
• Fixed: Importing products with radio inputs and drowpdowns
• Fixed: Importing into sites when not using "pretty permalinks"
• Fixed: Fix sequential field ID assignment bug
• Fixed: Conflict with the WishList Member Debug Mode
• Updated: Polish translation (thanks, Dariusz!)

• Added: Option to skip validation for imported data
• Improved: Allow returning to configuration step after import failure
• Improved: Widen column names in the Map Fields step
• Improved: Allow importing two-digit year formats (09/09/19)
• Improved: Don't automatically map User ID columns
• Improved: Save configuration when changing new form field labels
• Improved: Removed "Credit Card" fields from the list of fields available to import
• Fixed: Sub-labels for new Address fields were not being properly set
• Fixed: Skip completely empty rows
• Fixed: Import stats are now localized properly
• Updated: 100% Polish translation! (thank you, Dariusz!)

Developer Updates:

• Added: /test/ REST API endpoint for future health checks for ability to import
• Added: gravityview/import/field/validate and gravityview/import/entry/validate filters, allowing you to modify whether or not to suppress validation for entries or specific fields
• Renamed gravityview/import/export/note_types/blacklist filter to gravityview/export/note_types/blacklist
• Added: $column parameter to gravityview/import/parse/typemap filter
• Moved: gravityview/import/fields/multi-input out of the column loop
• Added: gravityview/import/settings/enabled filter
  • Deprecated: gravityview-import/show-settings
• Added: gravityview/import/settings/before action
• Added: gravityview/import/settings/after action
  • Deprecated: gravityview-import/before-settings
  • Deprecated: gravityview-import/after-settings

• Fixed: License activation script not loading for some sites

• Fixed: Issue affecting some sites where administrators were unable to access the Import Entries screen

• Added: Add WordPress 5.0+ plugin requirement
  • This fixes issues with scripts not loading and not being able to access the Import Entries page
  • Shows a notice when the plugin is running on a site running less than WordPress 5.0
• Improved: Hide "existing form" option when no forms are available
• Improved: Do not resume interrupted import after 2 hours
• Fixed: Do not resume when uploaded file is no longer available

Developer Updates:

• Added hooks:
  • Filter gravityview/import/processor/args
  • Action gravityview/import/processor/init
• Restored more v1 filters, and also started transition to new filter naming structure
  • gravityview-import/import-cap is deprecated. Use gravityview/import/rest/cap instead.
  • gravityview-importer/use-default-value is deprecated. Use gravityview/import/column/default instead.
  • gravityview-importer/after-update is deprecated. Use gravityview/import/entry/updated instead.
  • gravityview-importer/after-add is deprecated. Use gravityview/import/entry/created instead.

• Added: Export List fields as JSON, which makes it much easier to import. Here's how!
• Improved: Compact display makes it easier to preview entries at a glance
• Improved: Error reporting
  • Make it easy to contact support when plugin errors occur
  • Print the full error report in the browser
  • Display a warning when a CSV column is auto-mapped to Entry ID
  • Show message when JavaScript is not loading or is disabled
• Improved: Better CSV cleanup when import is complete
• Fixed: "Ignore Required" not working properly
• Fixed: When updating entries, ensure only entries connected to the form are imported
• Fixed: Prevent auto-mapping multiple columns to the same field
• Fixed: CSV upload issue on Windows servers
• Fixed: Display issues with Internet Explorer 11

Developer Updates:

• Added: gravityview/import/process/{$status} new, parsing, parsed, processing, error, done
• Restored many v1 filters, and also started transition to new filter naming structure
  • gravityview-import/user-agent => gravityview/import/user-agent
  • gravityview-importer/config => gravityview/import/config
  • gravityview-importer/process-row => gravityview/import/process/row
• Renamed v1 filters that weren't migrated:
  • gravityview/import/process/row/error is now gravityview-importer/add-entry/error
  • gravityview-importer/invalid-row is now gravityview/import/process/row/skipped
• A doc is coming soon with v1 to v2 filter and action details. If you have any questions, ask support.

We have been working on this update to the Entry Importer for over 8 months, and we're thrilled to share it with you.

A powerful new version - tons of new functionality!

• Create new fields when importing to existing forms
• Create a new form from a CSV during import
• Supports importing:
  • Multi-Column List fields (yep, this works great!)
  • Signature fields
  • Quiz, Poll, and Survey fields
• And so much more!

Read all the docs here

Special thanks to Vlad and Gennady for their hard work on this release!

• Fixed: Issue importing Entry Notes introduced in 1.3.5.2

• Fixed: Issue with incomplete or outdated information being passed to Gravity Forms hooks. This fixes an issue with Gravity Flow automation triggers. (Thanks, Steve Henty with Gravity Flow!)
• Fixed: Issue uploading CSV files that contain non-Latin characters in the filename
• We're nearly done with Import Entries Version 2.0 - a complete re-write! Enable beta updates to get early access. Here's how to enable beta updates!

• Fixed: Fatal error on activation

• Improved: Gravity Forms background processing is now triggered after import
• Fixed: "No Duplicates" setting was not being respected
• Fixed: Gravity Forms Zapier Add-On feeds were not appearing in the Feeds list
• Fixed: Fatal error on plugin page if the server doesn't support iconv()
• Updated translations - thank you, translators!
  • Polish translated by @dariusz.zielonka
  • Russian translated by @awsswa59
• We skipped Version 1.3.4, you're not imagining things

• Added: Gravity Forms 2.3 compatibility
• Added: Additional filters to control validation (gravityview/importer/validate-field and gravityview/importer/validate-entry)
• Added: "Beta" setting to opt-in to receiving updates when a new version of Import Entries is ready for testing
• Fixed: Prevent validation warnings after uploading files
• Fixed: Importing multi-select values into forms created with Gravity Forms 2.2+
• Fixed: Fix "Invalid number" PHP warning
• Fixed: Fatal error when parsing a file fails
• Fixed: Fatal error when attempting to find feeds from Addons connected with a form
• Translation updates for German, Danish, Turkish & French
• Now requires Gravity Forms 2.0 or newer

• Fixed: Support for non-Latin file names
• Fixed: Empty error box on the Map Fields screen
• Fixed: PHP warning

• Added: Support for processing Add-on feeds, like User Registration

• Added: Support for Product Option fields and Credit Card fields
• Added: Support for Quiz Addon and Poll Addon fields
• Added: Support for importing "Is Read" and "Is Starred" values (use 1 (yes) or 0 (no))
• Fixed: Conflict with Members plugin
  • Allow users with gravityforms_import_entries capabilities to import entries. Call the Nobel Prize Committee!
• Fixed: List field importing with fields that have multiple columns. There were duplicate "List" fields in the mapping drop-down, and if those options were selected, list fields would not import properly.
• Fixed: Import multiple checkboxes formatted as CSV values
  • Tweak: Allow for whitespace after each comma
• Fixed: When mapping an uploaded file, the first column name would sometimes be wrapped in quotes
• Fixed: Double quotes (") in header would be shown as two double quotes ("")
• Fixed: Translation files not being generated.
• Fixed: When Gravity Forms "No-Conflict Mode" enabled, license activation didn't work
• Tweak: Grouped related fields together in drop-down, now under groups like "Payment Details" and "Entry Notes"
• Tweak: Use blog encoding as default, since that's how Gravity Forms works (previously, UTF-8 was always default)
• Tweak: Added "Gravity Forms Entries" link in WordPress Tools > Import page

• Fixed: Import and Settings screens potentially not showing
• Fixed: The Changelog and automatic updates were showing for GravityView, not the Entry Importer plugin
• Fixed: Gravity Forms Importer requires Gravity Forms 1.9.5, not Gravity Forms 1.9

• Fixed: Files not displaying as uploaded for Windows servers
• Fixed: PHP warning for undefined variable $action (thanks, Robert!)
• Fixed: Abstract function declaration style (thanks, Robert!)

• Fixed: Javascript conflict with other Gravity Forms Addon feed configuration screens

• Added: Update existing entry details by specifying an Entry ID field. Read more
• Fixed: Issue imported fields with 0 or 0.00 values
• Fixed: Issue where imports fail because of the "mapped fields were empty" error
• Fixed: Date Field formats respect field "Date Format" settings
• Fixed: Issue where multiple imported columns had the same title
• Fixed: Importing Checkbox fields
• Fixed: Date Fields now respect the date formats set in the Gravity Forms field settings
• Added: Developer actions gravityview-importer/add-entry/added and gravityview-importer/add-entry/error that are triggered after each entry is imported
• Fixed: Duplicate "Use Default Values" configuration option
• Improved file format handling to use the blog encoding as the "To" format
• Updated the formatting guide for Multi Select fields
• Tweak: Only show Admin settings when Update Entry & Update Post fields are mapped
• Tweak: Fixed incorrect existing entry count
• Fixed: If not using PHP 5.3 or higher, show a notice
• Added: The gravityview-importer/strict-mode/fill-checkbox-choices filter

• Fixed: Prevent "Your emails do not match" error when Email field has "Enable Email Confirmation" enabled
• Fixed: Mapping "Created By" was not properly assigning imported entries to the defined user
• Fixed: JSON-formatted Post Image field imports
• Fixed: JSON-formatted Post Tags displaying as JSON in the Gravity Forms Entry
• Fixed: For web hosts without the mb_convert_encoding() function, add an alternative
• Fixed: PHP notice related to compatibility with Gravity Forms get_field_map_choices() method
• Fixed: Make sure that __DIR__ is defined on the server

• Fixed: Fatal error during import if a name could not be parsed

• Fixed: "There was a problem while inserting the field values" error on some server configurations
• Updated: Hungarian translation (thanks Robert Tokar!)
• Added: Additional information when displaying an error returned by Gravity Forms
• Fixed: PHP warning caused by CSV parsing library

• Fixed: PHP version 5.3 compatibility

• Added: Support for field Default Values
• Fixed: Name and Address field validation issues
• Fixed: Set width for Field Mapping dropdowns to prevent overflow
• Fixed: Updating Post Data
• Fixed: Show all import-blocking errors for each row in the report, not just one per row
• Fixed: Show better phone formatting error
• Updated translations:
  • Bengali (thanks @tareqhi)
  • Hungarian (thanks @Darqebus)

• Fixed: Fatal error when handling import in some installations
• Fixed: Set max width for drop-downs in Conditional Logic section
• Updated: Translations

• Allow for changing character set of imported file (read how)
• Fixed PHP notices and a fatal error
• Don't show "Download File with Errors" button when there are no added entries
• Fix support for TSV files, allow Text files

• First preview release