[Resolved] Get uploaded filed URL custom woocommerce field

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[charleneK]

Hello, I have a custom woocommerce field that requires customers to upload a bio picture. I'm now attempting to display that custom field in a view, but I only need the url of the image to display in the view.

I can successfully retreive file information. with [wpv-post-field name="shared_bio_pic"]

but the info returned is not usefull to me, how do I go about getting just the URL of the file upload?

{"name":"Heartwood 039_edit.jpg","url":"hidden link","file":"/home/example/public_html/wp-content/uploads/thwcfe_uploads/eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3/Heartwood-039_edit.jpg","type":"image/jpeg"}

[Nigel]

Toolset doesn't understand 3rd-party custom fields as anything other than the strings they are always saved as in wp_postmeta.

It looks like your custom field is converted to JSON from an object before storing as post meta.

In which case it needs converting back to an object upon retrieval, and then you can extract the part you need, i.e. just the URL.

That's not something you can do with Toolset.

You will likely need a custom shortcode which retrieves the data and returns just the URL.

That's outside the scope of our support, but let me offer an example that you can try. If it doesn't work you'll need to debug it yourself or get a developer to do it for you.

Add this to a snippet at Toolset > Settings > Custom Code (be sure to activate it on the front-end):

add_shortcode('field-url', function ($atts = [], $content = null) {

    // provide defaults
    $atts = shortcode_atts(
        array(
            'field' => 'shared_bio_pic',
        ),
        $atts
    );

    global $post;

    $field = get_post_meta( $post->ID, $atts['field'], true );

    $field_obj = json_decode( $field );

    return $field_obj->url;
});

You can then use the shortcode [field-url] where you want the URL to be shown. It defaults to the field "shared_bio_pic" but you can overwrite that with a field attribute.

[charleneK]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!