[Resolved] Display a View for a Parent post type

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[ABSTRACTUS]

I have a Custom Post Type "Location" with an embedded Repeating Group, and Events as child posts to the location.

Now I have a map with a View based on the Repeating Group displaying the location pins. In the popup info, I want to display some data from the Repeating Group, its owning Location and the View that displays the child Events of the Location. But I don't get to enter the owning (parent) Location as the reference for the View?

The "item=" approach similar to field references doesn't work here…
[wpv-view name="ecd-events-at-location-pin" item="@ecd-participation.parent"]

As Repeating groups in post types are treated in a similar way than parent-child relationships, my question could also be: How do I display the View for the "parent" post type?

[Nigel]

Hi there

Let me see if I have got this right.

The post type is Location, but the address fields are part of a repeatable field group belonging to the Location post.

So I'm guessing you have a template for a Location post, that has a View to query the repeatable field groups, the output of which generates the map markers (via shortcode).

And the pop-ups for these markers need to reference fields of the parent Location post.

For repeatable field groups the format for the item attribute (to specify a different source than the current post) is "@rfg-slug.parent".

So on my test site I have a repeatable field group "artists", and to output the title of the parent post I would use

[wpv-post-title item="@artists.parent"]

If you use the Fields and Views button to insert a field shortcode and specify the source it will generate the correct format for you (screenshot from my own site).

[ABSTRACTUS]

Hi Nigel

Thank you for your reply.

I have a different kind of content in the repeating group, but basically the structural idea is the one you described.

For Fields of the parent posts, yes this is the way to go as you described.

However, what I need to display, is not a Field but a View of the parent post.

Like, for example, a View that lists all (RFG) addresses of the parent Location – let's call it "display sibling posts" (child posts of the same parent posts). Or a View that lists Events (as child post type) to the respective parent Location.

When building this Content Template, the "Fields and Views button" does not allow me to specify the source, as your last sentence promises it. I can generate a shortcode only for the View referring to the current post (which is the RG). There is no parameter to refer the View to the Location (its parent post) instead of the current RG post

[Mateus Getulio]

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[Mateus Getulio]

Hey there,

I checked this out but so far I couldn't find a fix for it.

I asked my colleagues to have a look at this issue in order to see if there's anything I'm missing.

I'll come back here as soon as one of my colleagues reply back to me (which it shouldn't take long).

Thanks,

[Mateus Getulio]

Hi,

I have escalated this ticket to our 2nd tier of support where our 2nd tier specialists will take a deeper look at this issue and will try to find a solution.

I will get back to you as soon as I get an answer from them.

Best regards,
Mateus

[Mateus Getulio]

Hello there,

Thank you for your patience while we check this issue.

Our second-tier support has reviewed the issue, to ensure we provide the most accurate solution, we need some additional details about your end goal.

From our understanding, you have a View which queries ECD Participations and then the markers are added to the output of this View by referring to the parent Location post and its geoaddress custom field.

But as functional child posts, there are likely to be multiple ECD Participations for each location, which means the markers getting added for the same location multiple times.

Could you please confirm if our understanding is correct? Additionally, we would appreciate it if you could clarify the following:

- What specific information do you want to display within each map marker? Please list the details you want to include about the ECD Events.
- Are there any specific conditions or filters you want to apply when displaying these events in the markers?

Understanding these points will allow us to guide you better.

Please let us know and we'll double-check it.
Best regards,
Mateus

[ABSTRACTUS]

Hi Mateus

Thank you for getting back to me.

It is correct that there are likely to be multiple ECD Participations for each location over time. BUT as the map pins are filtered by the Year of the ECD participation, there will be only 1 match per location, hence only 1 pin per geoaddress. (unless someone is very stupid and registers for the same day twice, which I try to prevent also by the way I display or hide the link to create ECD participation form. When there is an ECD participation entry of the current year, the link turns into a "you are registered" text)

What I aim to display on the pin info is actually a replica of last year's pin popup info, which is still publicly visible at hidden link . The difference is: Last year I was simply rendering the location post types on the map, because it was the first edition so there was no need to filter among the locations. Locations were created because people participated, so there was no need to filter. Now this year, some of last year's locations may not take part, therefore I need to filter the locations, which is done by using ECD participations with year 2024 as list to be rendered.0

I want to display in the pin popup info:
(last year: "Map Pin" content template hidden link)
- information from the Location post type: Featured image, Post Title, tagline, icons with links to website etc.
- information on the open house day of the current year: Start time and end time > this was directly in the location post last year and has now moved to the ECD Participation repeatable group.
- list of Events at the Location (child post type to location): start time, end time, title

In the "Map Pin 24" content template hidden link
as an adopted version for this year, I managed to render the info on the location and the participation BUT got stuck when it came to getting the view of the location's child events.
This is where I have tried the above-mentioned
[wpv-view name="ecd-events-at-location-pin" item="@ecd-participation.parent"]
that doesn't work out.

[Mateus Getulio]

Hello there,

Upon further review, our 2nd tier support team was able to find a solution.

First, it was necessary to edit the ECD Events view as it needs a post relationship query filter that limits the output to events that belong to some location.

Ordinarily we'd set the filter to show posts related to the post where the View is shown or to the current post in the loop, but that's not going to work here, because the main View is querying ECD Participation repeating groups and not locations.

So the query filter should specify that the parent location will be specified by a shortcode attribute(please check the screenshot).

Then, where the View to output the ECD Events is inserted, we need to pass the ID of the "current" Location via the wpvrelatedto shortcode attribute. And we can get that ID by employing the item attribute to shift the context from the current ECD Participation post to its parent Location, it will look like this:

[wpv-view name="ecd-events-at-location-pin" wpvrelatedto="[wpv-post-id item='@ecd-participation.parent']"]

I just configured this in your site and it seems to be working properly, can you please test it and confirm that this is what you need to accomplish?

Thank you,
Mateus