Dear Yang,
(apologies if I got your incorrect name).
My second question is on sorting:
I must be doing something wrong there as well. As far as I can tell - it's not sorting by the custom fields in the database. If I attempt to sort by a custom field as a string, it shows this:
Sorting by the City column: hidden link
Sorting by the zip code field (asc): hidden link
And sort by zip desc: hidden link
The zip is setup as a numeric search.
What am I doing wrong here?
My last question:
Does the sort functionality sort all the results in the database? Or does it just sort what's on the screen?
The problem you mentioned above is abmormal, please check these:
1) In case it is a compatibility problem, please deactivate all other plugins, and switch to wordpress default theme 2020, deactivate all custom PHP/JS code snippets, and test again
3) If the problem still persists, please provide database dump file(ZIP file) of your website, also point out the problem page URL and view URL, I need to test and debug it in my localhost, thanks https://toolset.com/faq/provide-supporters-copy-site/
OK good news - I got it to work. The issue was that my custom fields are regular (non-Toolset) custom fields. And the wpv-header tags were linking to Toolset custom fields, so I updated those table column headers and that works.
However my next question - Is there a way to simply edit the sort without having to regenerate the entire sort code every time? (I have 21 columns I have to sort by so it's a little taxing to rebuild it every time). When I click on "Sorting Conrols" when editing the view, it doesn't let me edit what I've already created, it only regenerates a new sort dropdown.
Is there anyway to edit an existing sort control?
T
Yang,
The other thing that would save me on the last question - Is it possible to set the sort type (either numeric / string, etc) in the wpv-heading shortcode? I don't see that functionality...
Q1) Is there anyway to edit an existing sort control?
I assume we are talking about the shortcode [wpv-sort-orderby], if it is, you can find and edit that shortcode manually, and there isn't existed document for this shortcode, so it might conduct some unexpected results to change the shortcode manually.
And there is a document for setup the sort control within GUI: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views/allowing-visitors-to-sort-the-front-end-results/
