[Resolved] child link forms & displaying custom field values from parent post

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[julieP]

I have a site under development. One of the CPT's is set up as a child of one other CPT. I'm suddenly experiencing two issues:-

1. when I try to add a child link shortcode to a CT, the page containing the form (which contains the parent selector) can't be found. If I add the shortcode manually, the user can see the form on the frontend and it works as it should.

2. Until now I've used this format to display the value of custom field 'final-choice' from the parent post type 'owner':-

[types field='final-choice' id='$owner'][/types]

and follows your documentation here: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/displaying-fields-of-parent-pages/

but all of a sudden it's not working. After a search in the forum, I came across a thread from Feb this year showing a different format:-

[types field='final-choice' id='[wpv-post-field name="_wpcf_belongs_owner_id"]'][/types]

and this works.

I didn't think any of the upcoming changes to the way post relationships will work had been implemented yet or have I missed something? Is there an explanation as to why I suddenly have these issues? If the behaviour under point 1 isn't expected, what can I check/try to ascertain the cause please?

[Beda]

1. when I try to add a child link shortcode to a CT, the page containing the form (which contains the parent selector) can't be found.
https://toolset.com/errata/autocomplete-not-work-adding-link-create-child-or-delete/

2. can you share the link to the thread where you found that code.
It seems to be a workaround, as that still addresses the old relationship fields.

The code that "works" for you just calls the proper field directly by post meta, instead of with our $parent syntax.
but I am not aware that this is broken.

Maybe we can learn more if you share that thread?

[julieP]

Hi Beda

1. thanks for this (I wouldn't have recognised this issue from the errata title !)

2. I found the code in this thread (Luo Yang's entry # 615562 at 10.12 on feb 13 2018) https://toolset.com/forums/topic/cannot-output-parent-field-in-cred-child-post-using-cred-post-parent-getid/

[Minesh]

Well - I just checked and I see the parent field value correctly displayed when I add parent field shortcode on child post editor.

Where exactly you have added the parent shortcode?

[julieP]

Hi Minesh

I've shown this in my opening thread

[Nigel]

Hi Julie

Just a quick note to say Minesh is sick today. He should hopefully be back tomorrow, but if not I'll step in.

[Minesh]

Yes - I've followed the same way to display the parent custom field value and its working for me.

Could you please share debug information as well as problem URL where I can see the issue?

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[julieP]

Hi

For some reason I didn't get the last two responses in this thread (?). In the meantime, I've tested this on a vanilla site and it's OK so I think there's something awry my end where I first had the issue. If I need to I'll come back to you. Thanks for your help.