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Problem: I have a View that displays Item posts. I would like to display this View on an Auction post. Both Item and Auction have a custom field "donor". I would like to filter the View of Items by the same donor as the current Auction post.
Solution: Use a shortcode attribute in the View's Query Filter configurations, and pass in the field value from the current post using the $current_page operator:
[wpv-view name="Your View Name" donor="[types field='donor' item='$current_page' output='raw'][/types]"]
Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/passing-arguments-to-views/
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Last updated by 5 years, 3 months ago.
Assisted by: Christian Cox.
Hi, the best approach here is to use a shortcode attribute to pass the current post's donor value into the donor field filter. You must configure the View's Query Filter to respond to a shortcode attribute, as shown in the screenshot. If you cannot see the Query Filter panel in your View editor, scroll to the top right corner and click "Screen Options" to activate the panel. Then you will use the Types field shortcode with the $current_page operator to pass the current post's field value into the View. For example:
[wpv-view name="Your View Name" donor="[types field='donor' item='$current_page' output='raw'][/types]"]
It's best to use the raw output attribute to prevent other markup and styles from breaking the filter comparison.
This technique is called passing arguments to Views, and is described in a bit more detail here:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/passing-arguments-to-views/
Let me know if you have additional questions about this.
