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The forms are created and hosted at https://www.cognitoforms.com. The plugin allows you to seemlessly embed your forms created with the Cognito Forms form builder into your WordPress website.

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I really like the cognito forms editor, but the ability to create simple calculations is eluding me, and I’m not a dummy! Please provide some more concrete examples of how to create a simple order form in the support section of your site.

Thanks a million!

We have updated our support site with information and examples on creating calculations. You can find the information by following this link https://help.cognitoapps.com/understanding-calculations.

We are currently hard at work on our Payment Module. With the Payment Module we will also be introducing new order forms templates.

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Wanted to let you know that I understand your reasons for taking your time with the docs…

Cognito Forms calculations are very sophisticated, which is one of the reasons why we have not already released the documentation. …
Lastly, our calculations are based on an open source parser created by Microsoft in 2008 called Dynamic Linq. If you need more help in the short term and are technically minded, check out Scott Guthrie’s post, download the sample zip and read the full documentation under LinqSamples\DynamicQuery. After reading this documentation you will see why we are taking our time creating documentation that is more approachable for less technical audiences.

…and that I’m slowly managing to get my calculations to work with the information you have provided thus far.

I did have a problem trying to get this type of calculation to work (copied From your support site) =Attendees.Count(TShirt.Contains("Youth”) * 15 + Attendees.Count(TShirt.Contains("Adult”) * 20

– The error message I got had something to do with mixing strings and numbers.

I don’t know if this is the best way to handle it, but what I ended up doing was creating a separate number calculation for each item I wanted added up,

NoAdultTs=Attendees.Count(TShirt.Contains("Adult”)
NoYouthTs=Attendees.Count(TShirt.Contains("Youth”)

and then creating a currency calculation to get a subTotal:

SubtotalTees=(NoAdultTs*20) + (NoYouthTs * 10)

If if I have questions regarding other calculations is it better to ask them here or on Cognito’s support forum?

I’m going to leave a stellar review because despite the lack of documentation regarding calculations, your form builder is one of the easiest and feature filled I have ever come across, and I have tried them all!

I was able to reproduce the problem that you had with the calculation code copied from our support site. I was able to find an error in the example calculation code. I have updated the example with working code for the calculation field.

Try this in the calculation field:
=Attendees.Count(TShirt.Contains(“Youth”)) * 15 + Attendees.Count(TShirt.Contains(“Adult”)) * 20

We would recommend asking question on the Stack Exchange site and tagging the question with Cognito.

Thank you for the review and feel free to submit any ideas for future features to our Idea Board!

Let me know if you have any additional questions.