I am trying to create a form that users can fill for editing the content of my web directory. I want the form to appear as a link on top of every post.
I was able to add an edit option on each post after following the steps mentioned on your website: https://toolset.com/lesson-placement/lesson-placements-1621521-1612095/
However, after clicking on the edit option each time it leads to the main content page and not to the editing form
Hello and thank you for contacting the Toolset support.
I believe that you have created a content template, put the edit form inside the content template before adding the edit link, right?
If it is the case, maybe there is a compatibility conflict on your website. Please check if this issue appears when:
- Only Toolset plugins are activated. It will tell us if there is an interaction issue with another plugin.
- The theme is set to a WordPress default like Twenty Fourteen. It will tell us if there is an interaction issue with your theme.
If the problem disappears, start activating one at the time to track where the incompatibility is produced.
"I believe that you have created a content template, put the edit form inside the content template before adding the edit link, right?"
No we actually created an edit form and then added it to every post in our main page/the web directory following the steps from this website: https://toolset.com/lesson-placement/lesson-placements-1621521-1612095/
Can you guide me through the process of adding the edit form.
I see. You are directly putting an edit form inside the loop of the view. I thought that you wanted to put and edit link that will take the user to the edit form. You can't put an edit link without having a separate content template that contains the edit form.
As described in the tutorial, the second step is about creating this content template.
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Please provide details about the involved views and forms.
The issue is coming from mixing content templates and layouts. The custom post type "Charities 1" is using a content template to display the post. But the edit form for the posts is put in a layout "Edit temp".
The layout is also assigned to the custom post type. But the content template is always taking precedence, especially because you are activating the blocks editor for views and content templates.
To resolve this issue, you will have to decide if you will continue using Layouts, or Content templates.
We encourage our clients to use content templates with the block editor. In fact, we have put Toolset Layouts in maintenance mode only. We won't be developing new features for it, we'll be only fixing bugs for some time.
If you decide to continue using layouts, I'll suggest:
- Disable the content template for the Charities-1 custom post type.
- Installing and Activating Toolset Views. This will deactivate Toolset Blocks.
- Configure Toolset to use only the legacy editor in Toolset->Settings->General->Editing Experience.
And we may need to do something more.
If you decide to drop layouts, I'll suggest:
- Creating content template to replace the currently used layouts.
- Unassigning layouts, then assigning content templates instead of them.
- Deactivating the Toolset Layouts.
I hope this makes sense. Let me know if you have any questions or if something did not work as expected.
As you suggested I deactivated Toolset layouts and decided to use Content Template. I followed the steps from this website: https://toolset.com/course-lesson/front-end-forms-for-editing-content/
After completing Step 2: Create a Content Template for displaying the editing form, when I tried to view the form on front end, the below picture is what appeared instead of the actual form. Can you please tell me where I am going wrong.
Jamal is on vacation. This is Minesh here and I will handle take care of this ticket. Hope this is OK.
I checked with the following private page - I can see the search bar and the results. It seems you did not added the form with the following URL currently - is that correct?
=> hidden link
Can you please tell me what edit for you want to display exactly where? Do you want to display edit form or edit link?
Hi
I created an edit form in toolset -> content template. The name of the template is "list-charities edit form". The name of the post form used is "list-charities edit form". Please note the name of the content template and the post form is same.
Thank you!
The culprit was that you set your view on the following page to query the post type "charities-1":
=> hidden link
And with the Edit form "list-charities edit form" - you set this form to uses the post type "list-charity" that is why the link was not disdplayed.
The view where you want to add Edit link and the Edit form should use the same post type. So, with the Edit form "list-charities edit form" I've set the post type to "charites-1":
=> hidden link
Hi
Thank you for creating the edit link, it works now. However, I am facing another trouble now. After clicking on edit link the form that is displayed shows "There is a problem with charity-title field. Please check CRED form."
Can you please explain why this is happening and help me solve the problem?
Thanks!
Minesh has gone on vacation, so I'll continue back with you on this ticket.
I do not know what makes the form display those fields when they are not configured on the form. check this screenshot hidden link
I suspect a caching issue, however, deleting the cache from the "WP Fastest Cache" plugin did not help.
I'll suggest creating a new form for editing this custom post type and using it in the edit content template instead of this old form.
