Profile: christineH-9

Problem:

A Toolset View listing in-person workshop “event” posts needed conditional, multi-level sorting: if the user didn’t enter an origin address, results should sort by a custom “start date” field; if the user did enter an origin, results should sort by Toolset Maps distance and then by the same start-date field. The user attempted to do this via toolset_views_query_args, but it didn’t affect the View output.

Solution:

Toolset Views ordering must be adjusted via the wpv_filter_query hook (not toolset_views_query_args). Use wpv_filter_query to detect whether the distance search parameter is set; if not, force ordering by the start date meta field; if yes, apply a compound orderby with distance first and the start date second.

Hook: add_filter( 'wpv_filter_query', ... )

If toolset_maps_distance_radius is empty → orderby = meta_value_num, meta_key = wpcf-start-date, order = ASC

Else → orderby = array( 'distance' => 'ASC', 'wpcf-start-date' => 'ASC' )

Relevant Documentation:

https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-filters/