[Resolved] How to output repeatable field groups on the front-end in the same order as the backend?

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[CraigS3893]

Hi
Think there's a bug with repeating field blocks. I've created a simple 'page builder' for a client with various content block types, as repeatable field groups. However, when these are re-ordered in the back-end, the changes aren't reflected on the front-end. The site is still in development so can't share a link but screengrabs are attached. The "Quality" panel should be appearing above the "Download" one. I've updated to 3.2.7 and the issue is still there.

[Nigel]

Hi Craig

The sort order is stored as post meta with a key of toolset-post-sortorder, so that's what you need to set in your View that outputs the fields on the front end.

See my screenshot, hopefully that is clear.

[CraigS3893]

Hi Nigel, thanks for the quick response. I haven't started using Views yet - I'm still doing it all programatically in the template files.

Can I do this within the toolset_get_related_posts function?

<?php
$child_posts = toolset_get_related_posts( get_the_ID(), 'page-content', array( 'query_by_role' => 'parent', 'return' => 'post_object' ) );
foreach ($child_posts as $child_post)
{ ?>

[Nigel]

According to the documentation for toolset_get_related_posts you can include 'meta_value' or 'meta_value_num' as an orderby option, which looks promising, but only if you include a meta_key argument for meta_query filter, which is only partially implemented and supports only '=' or 'LIKE', but you don't want to specify what that custom field value is.

So it sounds like you cannot.

Which means a slightly tedious loop over the child posts to get the toolset-post-sortorder custom field value for each post and then sorting them into the required order, before you then loop over that sorted array to output you content as required.

It might be easier if you create a View with the relevant settings and in your PHP template where you want the View results to appear use the render_view function: https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-api/#render_view

Would that work?

[CraigS3893]

Thanks. I really need to get started using Views but I'm stuck using the methods I'm comfortable with at the moment. The loop is already quite big, with conditional options for various layout types, so wrapping it in another one would be too much I think. I'll just make sure the content is added in the correct order and ignore the re-ordering function for now.

Thanks for the advice!

[CraigS3893]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!