[Resolved] Content template / View and building the page

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[oleksandrM]

Hello.

I am trying to using Toolset Block (Content Template).
Please give some advise/answer.

1. Can I use Content Template (CT)? Example - screenshoot 1. Insert one or more CP in a single page/post.

2. The "Edit Content Template" button does not work. Is it ok or bug? ( screenshoot 1)

3. I created CT with Image Slider, Post Title and Category.
Then inserted CT to the page. Screenshoot 1 and 2 (two variants)
But the Slider does not show. Screenshoot 3.

4. Can I build the CT using WPBakery and how?

5. Can I copy the PHP code generated by CP and improve/extended it or it works in another way?

[Nigel]

Let me address 2. first: I just tested this and it seems to be working correctly in the current version. The Edit button opens the template editor in a new browser tab: do your browser settings allow pop-ups?

Regarding 3, it looks from your screenshots like you created a template and assigned it to the Exhibit post type. Then you added a Slider block, and for the image sources you specified the Photos-slider field for the current Exhibit post.

So that should work correctly when you visit a single Exhibit post on the front end which uses this template.

But it won't work if you insert the same template inside a Page. A page is not an exhibit post, so there is no current exhibit post to retrieve the Photos-slider field values from, the page has no Photos-slider field values. The context for where the template is used needs to be a single Exhibit post.

You could add a View block to the page which queries Exhibit posts, and then in the output of that View the context is an exhibit post, so you could either recreate the image slider in the output of the View, or even insert the Content Template you already made. But that will add multiple sliders, one for each of the exhibit posts returned by the View.

Is that what you want?

Maybe that is connected to 1., I didn't really understand what you were asking there.

You can design a template with WP Bakery. You can stop designing the templates with the Gutenberg editor and use WP Bakery: go to Toolset > Settings and choose to enable both the block and legacy UI. Then for Content Templates choose to create them with WP Bakery. (Or if you choose the legacy editor, when you edit the Content Template itself you should see a button to edit with WP Bakery.) That would meaning losing availability of Toolset blocks such as the slider block in your templates.

There is no PHP generated for the templates that you can use instead of the Content Templates, and the content is assembled on the fly.

[Christian Cox]

Hi I wanted to add to Nigel's comment - we offer a PHP API you can use to filter the content generated by a Content Template:
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-filters/#wpv_filter_content_template_output

...and a PHP API that can be used to apply any arbitrary template to a post, regardless of the assigned template:
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-filters/#wpv_filter_force_template

[oleksandrM]

Thank you.

About slider
1. Can I create a slider with Video (Embedded Media)?
Option 1.1 Open video in popup - like image slider. It is possible?
Option 1.2 Go to the Video Custom Type Page than click on video image thumb. It is possible?

2. I try to create slider with Feature Image from Video CPT but I can choose it. screenshot 1 and 2
For slider = no option
For Image Block - a can choose the feature image.

3. I have two CPT - Exhibit and Video.
In Exhibit post page I want to show Video slider that related to it. (Screen 3,4.)
Relationship by Category(ies)
Screen 3,4.

3.1 How can I create this (dynamic) condition on the slider block settings?

4. Screen 5. Can I use repeatable filed (group) for slider?

The result
I try to create the Exhibit post page that have relationship with many other CPT like Video, Photos, French curves.
But have big trouble with slider block 🙁
Screen 6

[Christian Cox]

Okay I understand you'd like to create sliders to display video content, and you would also like to display information from multiple posts in the same slider. The main problem here is that the Image Slider block is designed to display only repeating image fields from a single post. The image custom field must allow multiple instances (see the screenshot here). This is the only content source that the Image Slider block accepts, so most of what you are trying to achieve with video content, RFGs, and filtered content is not possible in the Image Slider block.

To display a slider with video content, or content from multiple filtered posts or repeatable field groups (RFGs) instead, you must create a slider using a View block. Our documentation for creating sliders in View blocks can be found here: https://toolset.com/course-lesson/creating-sliders-with-dynamic-post-content/
You may apply dynamic filtering in the View's Query Filters to include information from similar posts. In this approach, each "page" of the slider represents one post, or one row of an RFG if you choose to display information from an RFG. In each "page" of the slider you can display embedded content like a video from a custom video field in that post. You can also display information like the post title, a link to the post, or information from other fields and taxonomies.

If you'd like more information about creating slider Views, or if you are having trouble creating such a slider View, I can split off a new ticket to discuss that in more detail. Our policy is to address one issue per ticket, and we can use the current ticket to answer your questions about Content Templates in general.