[Resolved] Be able to group posts by field.

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[nikolasS]

Tell us what you are trying to do? Be able to group posts by field. e.g. partners per country

Is there any documentation that you are following? no

Is there a similar example that we can see?
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What is the link to your site?
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[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

Can you please share bit more information about your content structue.

How you setup country field and what posts you want to group by country?

Is country setup as taxonomy?

[nikolasS]

I have created a custom post (Partner) with custom fields. One of which is Country.
then i want to list the Partners grouped by Country.

[Minesh]

It will be easier for you if you setup "country" as custom taxonomy. Would you like to change the structure accordingly?

[nikolasS]

i prefer to be able to do it with custom field. is there a way?

[Minesh]

Have you created page and view. I would like to know how exactly you want to display the output and grouped posts by country.

Can you please send me problem URL and admin access details. You should just build your view without grouping so I know how exactly you want to display the output.

*** Please make a FULL BACKUP of your database and website.***
I would also eventually need to request temporary access (WP-Admin) 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.

[Minesh]

I can help you to group post by custom field but you will have to deal with how to display such data with accordion etc..

Can you please check now: hidden link

I've set your view to order by the coutry custom field:
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Then I've added the following code to "Custom Code" section offered by Toolset:
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add_shortcode('groupby_country', 'func_group_by_custom_field_country');
function func_group_by_custom_field_country($atts, $content = '') {
  static $country = null;
 
  $condition = $atts['condition'];;
  $value = $atts['value'];;
  switch ($condition) {
    case 'country':
    if ($$condition != $value) {
        $$condition = $value;
        return wpv_do_shortcode($content);
      }
      break;
  }
  return '';
}

And added the shortcode block within your view's loop area and added the following to call the above shortcode:

[groupby_country condition="country" value='[types field="country"][/types]']
<div style="text-align:center;"><h4><strong>[types field='country'][/types]</strong></h4></div>
[/groupby_country]

As you can see with the following screenshot:
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More info:
- https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/adding-custom-code/using-toolset-to-add-custom-code

[nikolasS]

ok. this is quite clever.
But ... It does not actual group them.
I have tried to use a View with a specific selection of filter. But when i tried to duplicate that view in the same page it just duplicated the reference to the view. so whenever i change the value in on view it changes to all views.
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[nikolasS]

I have tried to create a content template that accepts a shortcode parameter. then use this content template in my page and pass in the country code.
But it does not seem to work.
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[Minesh]

At start your requirement is different and in middle of the ticket you change your requirement that is not how we suppose to give support.

You said you want to group posts by country that query is already been addressed and solution provided. if you have different question and requirement as stated before pleaes feel free to close the current ticket as issue is already been addressed and open a new ticket with every new question you may have. This will help other users searching on the forum as well as help us to write correct problem resoluiton summery.

[nikolasS]

ok. thanks