[Resolved] Condition for custom field during post creation

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[diegoQ-2]

Hello!
I'm trying to add 'event like' information to two different post types. I'm using the same custom field group for both types. While it is restricted (no repeatable groups), I can make it work.

Now, I'm creating a "repeatable event" (please note this is the name of the feature I want to store in the custom fields). I want a "repeatable event" to happen any day of the week (every week), multiple times during the same day.
To accomplish this, I have created a select field that includes the name of the days (Mon to Sun) to select when in the week the event happens (and will be repeated every week). Then I create a single field to store the time for each day (for instance, "time for Monday", "time for Tuesday", and so on), making time fields repeatable.
So far so good (with a repeatable group would be much easier but still). Now I want to add to each time field a display condition only to be shown if the correspondent day is marked in the select field, but the 'basic' condition creator does not show the checkboxes field, and I have no clue on how to create custom logic to accomplish such a thing.

Any idea on how to proceed to accomplish my intention, either by providing conditional logic or another approach that may be more efficient?

[Select Field] (if not marked, do not store anything on database)
	Title -> 'Mon', Value -> 1
	Title -> 'Tue', Value -> 2
	Title -> 'Wed', Value -> 3
	Title -> 'Thu', Value -> 4
	Title -> 'Fri', Value -> 5
	Title -> 'Sat', Value -> 6
	Title -> 'Sun', Value -> 7

[Time field] (repeatable)
	Title -> 'Time for Mon'
	'Display Condition' -> ( ??? = 1)

[Time field] (repeatable)
	Title -> 'Time for Tue'
	'Display Condition' -> ( ??? = 2)

[Time field] (repeatable)
	Title -> 'Time for Wed'
	'Display Condition' -> ( ??? = 3)

[Time field] (repeatable)
	Title -> 'Time for Thu'
	'Display Condition' -> ( ??? = 4)

[Time field] (repeatable)
	Title -> 'Time for Fri'
	'Display Condition' -> ( ??? = 5)

[Time field] (repeatable)
	Title -> 'Time for Sat'
	'Display Condition' -> ( ??? = 6)

[Time field] (repeatable)
	Title -> 'Time for Sun'
	'Display Condition' -> ( ??? = 7)

Notes:
+ Time field is a Date field that I will later only use the time information.
+ the "???" above is the logic I'm asking for.
+ I tried the approach here https://toolset.com/forums/topic/if-condition-for-a-custom-field-with-multiple-checkboxes/ didn't work.
+ I tried this logic and didn't work: ($(dias-de-semana)[0] eq 1)

Thanks!
Diego

[Luo Yang]

Hello,

The logic you mentioned above won't work, custom date field works for specific day + time, it won't be able to repeatable for every weekday.

In your case, I suggest you try with the a custom Repeatable Field Group, with below three custom select fields:
- Select field "Weekday", with below options:
Title -> 'Mon', Value -> 1
Title -> 'Tue', Value -> 2
Title -> 'Wed', Value -> 3
Title -> 'Thu', Value -> 4
Title -> 'Fri', Value -> 5
Title -> 'Sat', Value -> 6
Title -> 'Sun', Value -> 7
- Select field "Start time", with 24 options: 0~23
- Select field "End time", with 24 options: 0~23

So when you edit a post, you can add multiple events into the Repeatable Field Group, and select the "Weekday" + "Start time" + "End time" for each event.

More help:
https://toolset.com/course-lesson/creating-and-displaying-repeatable-field-groups/

[diegoQ-2]

Hello Luo Yang, I like your approach much better. However, I face a problem. As I'm using this custom field group in two post types simultaneously, I'm not allowed to do a repeatable group.
Now, I'm using the same custom filed group in multiple post types because my site is about online and in-person courses. I'm using the LearnDash plugin for online training, but I'm using a custom post form Toolset for in-person courses. But I want to show all courses (online and in-person) in a schedule view, where users can filter by type (online and in-person, and many others) using GridBuilder WP.
As far as I know, I may have the same custom fields applying for both post types to show them both simultaneously with the option of filters.

If you have better ideas, please share.

[Luo Yang]

The Toolset Repeatable Field Group is based on one-to-many relationship, so you use one-to-many relationship instead of Repeatable Field Group, for example:
1) Create a custom post type "Event", with the custom fields I mentioned above:
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/condition-for-custom-field-during-post-creation/#post-2052785

2) Setup multiple one-to-many relationships between your custom post types and "Event"
https://toolset.com/glossary/post-relationships/

So when you edit custom post types post, you can setup related "Event" posts, and in single custom post types post, you can display the related "Event" posts:
https://toolset.com/course-lesson/displaying-related-posts/#displaying-many-related-items

[diegoQ-2]

Hello Luo Yang, your approach is very clever, and it worked perfectly for me.
I still need to understand how to hide the new "event" post type from the site as it will only be used to store event-like information of the courses. I don't want to have an archive or individual pages of events visible on my site. I already "hide" them with Yoast, but that only works for search engines. I want to disable front-end interaction completely.
Is that possible?

[diegoQ-2]

Under the post type configuration, I found out that if I disable the publicly_queryable option, the post type will not have a front-end view. Just what I needed.

My issue is resolved now. Thank you very much!!