[Resolved] Date/Time … conditional display based on ???

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[CSS Web]

Tell us what you are trying to do?

I work at a University, and I have created a Custom Post Type and View for Emergencies (like Fire, hurricanes, etc.).

We toggle the display of select Emergency posts on and off in the View output by a Category (Status ... Active or Inactive)

99% of the time there is no emergency ... and we have a single, 'default' Active post offering some general information.

I do NOT want this 'default' post the show Date/Time ... it's timeless, and a date/time might confuse users.

When an actual emergency happens, we create POSTS giving people status and instructions.

We DO want these posts to show Date/Time in the View ... as are critical details.

Is there a way, in a View, to show (or hide) Date/Time conditionally for certain posts?

I'm having my post writers add the Date/Time manually to their Post Content (Body).

It would be nice to display via the publication date/time... and would help decrease user error.

Much thanks for any ideas you can offer 🙂

Is there any documentation that you are following?

None

Is there a similar example that we can see?

Sorry - I do not have.

What is the link to your site?

The site is not publically available --- in dev.

[Jamal]

Hello and thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

I am not sure to correctly understand your requirements, but I'll give it a try. I understand that you want to display date/time from a custom field only for the Emergencies posts with the status "Active", right?
If that's the case, you can use a conditional shortcode(if you are building the view using the legacy editor) or a conditional block(if you are building the view with blocks) and check against the status. If the status is active display the date/time field, otherwise do not.

Read more about it on the following articles:
- https://toolset.com/course-lesson/using-toolset-conditional-block/
- https://toolset.com/2021/08/5-advanced-uses-of-toolsets-conditional-block-in-wordpress/

I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.