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[Resolved] Adding Edit Form to Elementor Custom Post

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Last updated by Minesh 1 year, 1 month ago.

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#2697862

Tell us what you are trying to do?

I have a site that shows a directory of tour guides constructed with Elementor Pro at hidden link. I'd like individual guides to be able to select their profiles, see an edit button at the top of the page, and be able to edit them. Very much as outlined in https://toolset.com/course-lesson/front-end-forms-for-editing-content/.

Following those instructions I've created a form for editing (called 'Form for Guide Profiles') and added that to a content template (called 'Edit guide profile template').

I've then gone to my elementor page for displaying guide profiles (called "Guide Profile Master v2) to try and add the Edit link, and failed at this point. (ps - note that the Guide Profile Master v2 isn't used for all guides - but if you search the guides page for David Brown you should see it).

The Youtube video https://toolset.com/course-lesson/front-end-forms-for-editing-content/ starts ok, but gets a little confusing around 5:44 when you add a content template as I don't get the same format that is shown on the video, but I went ahead and created the template not assigned to any post type. The next challenge is that it assumes that at 6:30 it adds a Toolset 'Fields and Text' field - but I don't have this available in Elementor Pro - the only Toolset options are Toolset Views or Toolset Forms.

So the question is how do I display an edit link that enables the form to be edited?

Is there any documentation that you are following?

The video https://toolset.com/course-lesson/front-end-forms-for-editing-content/.

And lots of questions on the Toolset Support Forum - clearly lots of people have had similar problems - but I don't understand any of the answers.

What is the link to your site?
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#2698121

Minesh
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Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

Can you please share problem URL and admin access details and tell me where exactly on what section you want to display the edit profile link and what edit form you would like to display.

Please share all required information with admin access details as well as frontend user access details.

*** Please make a FULL BACKUP of your database and website.***
I would also eventually need to request temporary access (WP-Admin and FTP) to your site. Preferably to a test site where the problem has been replicated if possible in order to be of better help and check if some configurations might need to be changed.

I have set the next reply to private which means only you and I have access to it.

#2698135

Minesh
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Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)

To display the Edit post link you will have to use the shortcode:

[toolset-edit-post-link content_template_slug='edit-guide-profile-template' target='self']Edit[/toolset-edit-post-link]

Can you please try to add the above shortcode to your elementor's template and remove any existing edit link and check if that help you to resolve your issue.

#2698202

Thanks for that - turns out to be easier than I thought. Really useful.

Regards