Creating my own custom field?

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Last updated by Luo Yang 6 years, 9 months ago.

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February 28, 2018 at 1:43 pm #620540

grahamA

Hi.
We need to have a frontend table per post that a User can add multiple rows and capture 3 cells of data per row. (single line,date,number) but we need to be able to calculate the total of all data numbers in all rows and and display the total live in the front end.

My understanding is I would create a child type of the 3 cells i want in a row and then (somehow) allow the user to continue adding multiple child posts in the frontend BUT we cannot total all the cell number values because the rows are actually separate posts.

Is there a way to achieve this with your plugin or is it possible to write our own 'table' field?

Please advise the correct process to achieve this

(BTW. Installed Types beta 2.3 b3 but the repeatable fields button is not present)

Many thanks

March 1, 2018 at 4:58 am #620794

Luo Yang

Hi,

In your case it needs a custom field group, I suggest you setup a child post type with custom fields, see our document:
Creating Groups of Repeating Fields
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/creating-groups-of-repeating-fields-using-fields-tables/
The Types beta 2.3 b3 is still in beta status, some feature does not work as expected.