checkbox fields are not showing in Elementor dynamic content options

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November 21, 2024 at 3:54 am #2784889

graceannA

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Tell us what you are trying to do?
I have built a template in Elementor for my 'people' custom post type. It has fields like 'title', 'bio', 'certifications' etc. However, when I go into the dynamic content, only the text fields are showing, but the fields I've created with checkboxes are not there. I've looked a bunch of tutorials and help pages and can't figure out how to solve this problem. I've tried views and shortcodes etc.

When I go to 'edit view in toolset', it says "Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page.".

I don't want to create a whole new template in toolset for the 'People' view, because I've already designed some of the graphic stuff in Elementor and I understand I can't use both. How can I get these fields to show up in Elementor dynamic content?

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I'm not sure that will be helpful though. Please see screenshots attached.

November 21, 2024 at 12:00 pm #2784971

Minesh

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Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

We have limited integration with the Elementor and here is the Doc that shows information how you can use Toolset with Elementor.
- https://toolset.com/course-lesson/using-toolset-with-elementor-page-builder/

The custom checkboxes field is a special field that stores its value to database as serialized array and such values are not easy to parse by third party.

The Elementor plugin's team maintains this feature of picking custom fields added through the Toolset Types plugin, but at the moment it only supports limited types (like single line etc..etc..) of fields. The simplest workaround is to use types field shortcode directly in the Elementor's "Text Editor" widget, e.g.

[types field='field-slug' separator=', '][/types]

Where:
- Please replace "field-slug" with the actual slug of your custom field.

You can read more about types fields API at:
- https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/functions/#checkboxes