[Resolved] How to hide results in Views that are under a certain custom post type?

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[StanleyT8485]

Tell us what you are trying to do?
I want to hide results in Views that are under a certain custom post type.

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[Waqar]

Hi Stanley,

Thank you for contacting us and I'll be happy to assist.

The Toolset Views plugin offers a shortcode "wpv-post-type" ( ref: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#vf-153408 ) which can be used with a conditional block shortcode, to show/hide the results in a view, based on post type.

For example, in the slug of your target post is "books", you can use:

[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-type]' eq 'books' )"]
Show only if this is a book post type
[/wpv-conditional]

[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-type]' ne 'books' )"]
Show only if this is not a book post type
[/wpv-conditional]

I hope this helps!

regards,
Waqar

[StanleyT8485]

Thanks for this, Waqar.

How about hiding a view result based on a parent's post type?

[Waqar]

Hi Stanley,

Thanks for writing back.

The shortcode "wpv-post-type" ( ref: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#vf-153408 ) accepts "item" attribute, which can be used to specify parent ( either hierarchical or the one in post-relationship ).

You'll find more details on the topic from this guide:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/item-attribute/

regards,
Waqar

[StanleyT8485]

How would you hide results if their parent is "Companies"?

I tried this and it doesn't work.

[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-type]' ne '@company.parent' )"]
Show only products that are not under the Company parent post type.
[/wpv-conditional]

Another follow up question, how would you hide the result if the Views is in a table format?

<table class="wpv-loop js-wpv-loop">
	<wpv-loop wrap="4" pad="true">
		[wpv-item index=1]
		<tr>
			<td>
				[wpv-post-body view_template="Loop item in One page order 2019"]
			</td>
		[wpv-item index=other]
			<td>
				[wpv-post-body view_template="Loop item in One page order 2019"]
			</td>
		[wpv-item index=4]
			<td>
				[wpv-post-body view_template="Loop item in One page order 2019"]
			</td>
		</tr>
		[wpv-item index=pad]
			<td></td>
		[wpv-item index=pad-last]
			<td></td>
		</tr>
	</wpv-loop>
	</table>

[Waqar]

Hi Stanley,

To better guide you around both these questions, I'll need to fully understand two points:

1. Which post types are selected in the view's "Content Selection" settings?

2. What is the relationship between "Products" and "Companies"?

It would help if you could put your website online and share its access details or share screenshots of how the view and the relationship are set up.

(I've set your next reply as private, in case you'd want to share the admin access details)

regards,
Waqar

[Waqar]

Hi Stanley,

Thank you for sharing further details.

To only show a product, if it is not in a relationship with a company post, you can wrap it inside a conditional block, like this:

[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-type item='@company_product.parent']' ne 'company' )"]
<div class="featured-image">
  	<a href="[wpv-post-url]">[wpv-post-featured-image size='thumbnail']</a>
	<h3>[wpv-post-link]</h3>
</div>
[/wpv-conditional]

As for your second part of the question, table format for this view won't work, since you'll be filtering out some results based on their relationship. The total number of results returned by the view will be different than the actual number of results shown on the front-end, leaving some empty table cells.

You can structure your results in regular div tags and then add custom CSS code to show the results in a grid format (without the table).

regards,
Waqar

[StanleyT8485]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!