I can not get an Edit Post link to get created in a View or a Layout

This support ticket is created 5 years, 10 months ago. There's a good chance that you are reading advice that it now obsolete.

This is the technical support forum for Toolset - a suite of plugins for developing WordPress sites without writing PHP.

Everyone can read this forum, but only Toolset clients can post in it. Toolset support works 6 days per week, 19 hours per day.

Our next available supporter will start replying to tickets in about 2.41 hours from now. Thank you for your understanding.

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
-	9:00 – 13:00	9:00 – 13:00	9:00 – 13:00	9:00 – 13:00	9:00 – 13:00	-
-	14:00 – 18:00	14:00 – 18:00	14:00 – 18:00	14:00 – 18:00	14:00 – 18:00	-

Supporter timezone: Asia/Hong_Kong (GMT+08:00)

Tagged: Content Templates, Views plugin

This topic contains 2 replies, has 2 voices.

Last updated by Luo Yang 5 years, 10 months ago.

Assisted by: Luo Yang.

Author

Posts

January 10, 2019 at 11:46 pm #1181773

Eric

I tried several times to follow this https://toolset.com/documentation/getting-started-with-toolset/publish-content-from-the-front-end/forms-for-editing/

I am attempting to create a CPT called Sites. Any which way I've tried I do not get the dialog box for "Create a new Layout that will include the editing form. You can start..."

I've done this several times and am getting a little lost.

I looked at this post and felt the pain of this user and support person https://toolset.com/forums/topic/cannot-add-the-cred-edit-link-to-anything/#post-617046

Savvy user here. Please help 🙂

January 11, 2019 at 4:55 am #1182041

Eric

Just noticed that I said:

"Any which way I've tried I do not get the dialog box"

What I meant to say was...

"Any which way I've tried I get the dialogue box" and I don't get the option to select the proper Content Template as shown in Step 3 of the post Building Forms for Editing Content and Users.

I am happy to describe more, but I think that just having one of you take a look would make a difference. I feel like pulling out my hair as it doesn't feel like it should be so difficult... thus I must be missing something -or- there is something not quite working as expected.

Thanks in advance 🙂

Eric

January 11, 2019 at 7:14 am #1182076

Luo Yang

Hi,

Thanks for the details, I have checked it in your website, and found the problem:
there are some JS errors in your site.
Uncaught ReferenceError: google is not defined

I have done below steps:
1) Switch to wordpress default theme 2019, then the JS error is fixed.

2) Create a layout "edit-site-post-layout":
hidden link
display only the post form for editing "site" post: "edit-site"

3) Edit the layout for single "site" post: "Display Site"
hidden link
Add a content template cell in the bottom, insert the edit form link according to our document:
https://toolset.com/documentation/getting-started-with-toolset/publish-content-from-the-front-end/forms-for-editing/

[toolset-edit-post-link layout_slug='edit-site-post-layout' target='self']Edit %%POST_TITLE%%[/toolset-edit-post-link]

See screenshot: edit-form-link.JPG

4) Test it in front-end:
hidden link

You should be able to see the link "Edit Hello Test Site", click it, redirect you to URL:
hidden link

It works fine, and it does display the edit form.

5) Then I have switch back to theme "Avada Child"

For the JS error problem, I have searched it in our website, and found this thread:
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/updated-site-and-now-get-uncaught-referenceerror-google-is-not-defined/

That client was able to fix the problem, and left a comment in last post,
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/updated-site-and-now-get-uncaught-referenceerror-google-is-not-defined/#post-1181771

It is a private message, I copy it here:
My issue is resolved now. When I updated the site to WP 5.0.3 and I applied a patch to Avada it appeared to work.

Since your website is also using WP 5.0.3, so you might need to ask help from Avada support for the patch.