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Square Area Calculations

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  1. jschulbe
    Member

    I need something that can do square area calculations and come up with a price. The user would type in the width / length dimensions and it would calculate the price based on the price. Or the radius if they are dealing with a circle.

    For instance lets say something is $5 per square mm and the user types in dimensions of 2.3 mm by 5.1 mm. It would calculate a price of $5 per square mm and come up with $58.65. Everything we deal with is custom dimensions and we want our customer to type in the size they need.

    Thank you,

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday January 24, 2012 | Permalink

  2. jschulbe
    Member

    Does Anyone know if this is possible with this plugin?

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday January 26, 2012 | Permalink

  3. Kevin Flahaut
    Administrator

    The form is not going to automatically do the calculations like you want. It's possible, but would require some customizations to make it happen on your end.

    There was another similar request a while back and the member was able to make the customizations and get everything working the way they wanted with a little help from one of our team members.

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday January 26, 2012 | Permalink

  4. jschulbe
    Member

    Perfect, I am ok with that as long as It works in the end for what we want. If I customize it to what I want on my end to make this happen would I still be able to still get the updates for the plugin? I know some plugins if you edit them to work the way you want you won't get any future updates. I hope that is not the case if I do that. We are looking at purchasing the developer version as well, I dont know if that would make any difference.

    Thank you very much, knowing that it is possible to make happen with what we want to do is a weight off the shoulders. Please get back to me about the updates when you can.

    Thanks Much,

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday January 26, 2012 | Permalink

  5. Kevin Flahaut
    Administrator

    Yes, you still get updates as long as your license is active regardless of any customizations you may have made.

    Most customizations are made via existing filters & hooks by placing custom code in your theme's functions.php file rather than modifying the core plugin files. We recommend this method so when you run the auto-updates on the core plugin your customizations aren't overwritten.

    If you do choose to edit the core plugin files, you'll want to make a backup of those and you'll need to apply those changes to any future versions of Gravity Forms. That said, you can see the benefit of making custom changes in the external file and not having to maintain different versions of the core plugin yourself.

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday January 26, 2012 | Permalink

  6. carblanco
    Member

    Kevin,

    Could you please show me the example you are talking about? Note that I haven't got a developer key, I only need some pre-purchase answers.

    Thanks.

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday March 2, 2012 | Permalink

  7. Rob Harrell
    Member

    Our new GF v1.6.4 Beta 1 was released today with calculations - see if that works for what you are trying to do:

    http://www.gravityhelp.com/gravity-forms-v1-6-4-beta-1-released/

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday April 11, 2012 | Permalink