{"id":22,"date":"2026-08-14T03:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awarenesspartners.net\/?p=22"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:14:08","slug":"22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awarenesspartners.net\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\n
\n\n
\"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n
\n\n

Formboard<\/a> See it in action<\/a> ISO Management System<\/a> About<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\n\n
\n\n
Request Early Access<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n
\n\n

FOR GRAVITY FORMS · WORDPRESS PLUGIN<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

Every entry you already collect, turned into a real dashboard.<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n

Formboard is the first WordPress reporting app built entirely on Gravity Forms — no external database, no REST API, no background sync. Charts, KPIs, and pivot tables render server-side, straight from your forms’ own entries.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n\n
Request Early Access →<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n
See it in action<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

<\/i>No AJAX. Every screen is a page load.<\/span> <\/i>Works in wp-admin or on the front end<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\n\n\n
\n
<\/span> Linked forms, matched live<\/div>\n
<\/span> Zero background requests<\/div>\n
\n
\n
<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
FORMBOARD — Q3 INTAKE REPORT<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n
\n
New Entries<\/div>\n
4,208<\/div>\n
▲ 12.4% vs last period<\/div>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n
\n
Avg. Response Time<\/div>\n
2.1h<\/div>\n
▼ 8% faster<\/div>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n
\n
Submissions by Department<\/span>Chart · Top 5<\/span><\/div>\n
\n <\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n
Region<\/th>Count<\/th><\/tr>\n
Harare<\/td>812<\/td><\/tr>\n
Bulawayo<\/td>514<\/td><\/tr>\n
Mutare<\/td>301<\/td><\/tr>\n
Grand Total<\/td>1,627<\/td><\/tr>\n <\/table>\n <\/div>\n
\n
Findings by Status<\/div>\n \n \n \n \n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n
\n\n

0<\/h3>\n\n\n

background requests per screen<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\n\n

7<\/h3>\n\n\n

widget types incl. combo & pivot<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\n\n

5<\/h3>\n\n\n

front-end shortcodes, full CRUD<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\n\n

1<\/h3>\n\n\n

SQL query per widget, every time<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n\n

THE ARCHITECTURE<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

Built with a design goal most dashboards ignore: nothing fetched in the background.<\/h2>\n\n\n

Every screen in Formboard is a normal WordPress page load. Adding a widget submits a form and reloads the page — the server computes the data at that moment and writes it straight into the HTML.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n\n
\n\n

01<\/p>\n\n\n

One SQL query, always<\/h3>\n\n\n

Sums, group-bys, and pivots run directly against Gravity Forms’ own entry tables. Raw entries are never loaded into PHP, so it stays fast no matter how many submissions a form has.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\n\n

02<\/p>\n\n\n

Nothing to intercept<\/h3>\n\n\n

No fetch() calls means there’s no request for a misconfigured cache, security plugin, or service worker to silently swallow. What renders is what happened.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\n\n

03<\/p>\n\n\n

Same app, wp-admin or front end<\/h3>\n\n\n

[formboard_dashboard] runs the exact same PHP rendering and POST handler as wp-admin — full editing, drag-to-resize, and the widget builder, on any page you choose.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n\n

WHAT YOU GET<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

A proper BI layer, without leaving Gravity Forms.<\/h2>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n
\n\n

Relationships — BI-style joins between forms<\/h3>\n\n\n

Link a second Gravity Forms form to any widget and match a field on each — an Orders form’s “Email” to a Customers form’s “Email.” Every field picker in that widget then offers the linked form’s fields too, prefixed with its name. Treated as a lookup, not a many-to-many join, so a cross-form measure never inflates a sum the way a naive join could.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n\n
\n\n

Charts, every shape<\/h4>\n\n\n

Bar, column, line, area, pie, doughnut, radar, combo (mixed bar+line with a secondary axis), and stacked bar\/area — with Top N and sort built into the same single query.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\n\n

Pivot tables<\/h4>\n\n\n

Rows, columns, and value fields with subtotals that stay visible on collapse and an always-visible grand total — a real spreadsheet-outline pivot, computed server-side.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\n\n

KPI comparison cards<\/h4>\n\n\n

A PowerBI\/Looker-style stat tile: the number, a colored delta chip against a previous period or fixed target, and a 12-point trend sparkline — with configurable “which direction is good.”<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n\n
\n\n

Live filter bars<\/h4>\n\n\n

Up to 5 rules per widget, and every filter also shows as a viewer-adjustable bar directly on the widget — not buried in an edit drawer.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\n\n

Tables, Datatables-style<\/h4>\n\n\n

A searchable, sortable, paginated grid of raw entries, with an opt-in heatmap or up to 5 conditional-formatting rules per column.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\n\n

Share & export<\/h4>\n\n\n

A per-report link with one-click copy, “Export PDF” via the browser’s own print dialog, and “Export Excel” as a CSV of everything currently on the report.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n\n
\n\n

Dark mode<\/h4>\n\n\n

A viewer-side toggle in the app header. Remembered in that browser only — never written to the server, never changes what anyone else sees.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\n\n

Calculated measures<\/h4>\n\n\n

Simple two-field arithmetic or an advanced formula like ROUND(({5}-{6})\/{6}*100,1) — compiled through a whitelist-only parser, no eval(), computed in the same SQL query.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n\n

SEE IT IN ACTION<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

What building a report actually looks like.<\/h2>\n\n\n

Illustrative walkthroughs of the three screens people spend the most time in — the widget builder, the linked-form relationships panel, and a finished report.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n\n
\n\n

Build a widget without leaving the page<\/h3>\n\n\n

Every section — Basics, Fields & measure, Relationships, Filters, Table design — is its own fly-out panel in the same slide-over builder. Saving is a normal form POST that reloads the page; nothing is fetched in the background, even here.<\/p>\n\n\n