gAppointments - Appointment booking addon for Gravity Forms

Version 1.25 — 2 October 2026

• Fixed Fixed bug: The appointment date and time arrived in notification emails, confirmations and the entry list as raw serialized data, for example a:3:{s:4:"date";s:10:"2026-09-30";s:4:"time";s:11:"15:00-18:00";s:4:"cost";s:1:"0";} instead of the booked date. This affected bookings submitted through the AJAX submission method introduced in Gravity Forms 2.9, which posts to admin-ajax.php. WordPress reports that as an admin request, and the Booking Calendar field skipped its date-to-text conversion on admin requests, on the assumption that only the entry edit screen in the dashboard could be one. Such bookings therefore stored the raw date/time/cost array and every merge tag printed it verbatim. The field now tests for the entry edit screen itself rather than for any admin request. A second path did the same when the entry ID was not yet available, for example on entries created programmatically, and is also fixed. The older iframe-based AJAX option and standard non-AJAX submissions were never affected.
• Fixed Fixed bug: Entries already saved with a serialized date now display correctly without being re-saved. The entry detail screen, the entries list and notification merge tags all recover the stored booking and format it. Emails that were already sent cannot be corrected retroactively.
• Fixed Fixed bug: A multiple-slot booking submitted with no slots selected could store an empty array in the entry, which then appeared as serialized data for the same reason as above. The value is now always converted to text before it is saved.
• Improved Note: Appointments themselves were never affected. The appointment record, availability and the double-booking checks all read the submitted values directly, so only the entry value and the text in notification emails were wrong. No booking data was lost.