I have a custom record that uses several fields to calculate the "criticality" of the event that is being reported in the form. Each of those fields assigns a value to the question. The record then needs to go through approvals based on the total of the criticality. However, I cannot figure how to get the sum of the assigned values to show up in the record itself. I've tried using a formula, but the + sign concatenates the values instead of adding them. Any thoughts as to if this is possible? I would like this to happen during form editing so the employee can see the criticality as they answer the questions.

This is usually not possible without a client script. Calculations in workflows only seem to occur using server data so only after submit trigger works A client script using field changes would be able to help with this