[Resolved] Passing URL parameters from repeatable field group.

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[attilaT]

I have a CPT 'trainings' with custom fields: date, length, status, etc.
and a repeatable group field: exercise name, reps, sets, weight and time

I made a view where I list certain trainings. I'd like to add a link to each training in the view where I pass URL parameters like:
<a href="localhost/?edat=[types field='date' style='text' format='Y.m.d.'][/types]&estat=[types field='status'][/types]&etip=[types field='tipus']">Link</a>

It's working well so far, but I should pass a few parameters from the repeatable group field too.

For this I made a new unformatted view called 'URL helper' with this template:
&ename[tssnippet-loop-iteration]=[types field='exercise-name'][/types]&eset[tssnippet-loop-iteration]=[types field='set'][/types]&erep[tssnippet-loop-iteration]=[types field='reps'][/types]&ewe[tssnippet-loop-iteration]=[types field='weight'][/types]&eti[tssnippet-loop-iteration]=[types field='time'][/types]

I added this view to the end of the URL in the original View like this:
<a href="localhost/?edat=[types field='date' style='text' format='Y.m.d.'][/types]&estat=[types field='status'][/types]&etip=[types field='tipus'][wpv-view name="URL-helper"]">Link</a>

This way a managed to build the link with all the parameters I need but somehow it mess up my link by adding some line breaks before and <span class=" cp-load-after-post"=""> tag to the end of the link.

I suspect I should change something in the URL-helper View, but cant figure out what to do.

Thanks in advance!
Attila

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Hello and thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

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For this post xxx.
I expect the URL to be like: xxx
Instead I get xxx

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[Jamal Supporter Languages: English (English ) French (Français ) Timezone: Africa/Casablanca (GMT+01:00)]

Because you are using the view inside an attribute of the <a> tag, you need to make sure that the view is clean from line breaks, whitespaces, HTML tags, etc.

I added the following code to Toolset->Snippets->Code, to remove some views comments that are used by Toolset:

add_filter( 'wpv_filter_wpv_view_shortcode_output', 'prefix_clean_view_output', 5, 2 );
function prefix_clean_view_output( $out, $id ) {
  $ids = array( 885 );
  if ( in_array( $id, $ids )) {
    $start = strpos( $out, '<!-- wpv-loop-start -->' );
    if (
      $start !== false
      && strrpos( $out, '<!-- wpv-loop-end -->', $start ) !== false
    ) {
      $start = $start + strlen( '<!-- wpv-loop-start -->' );
      $out = substr( $out , $start );
      $end = strrpos( $out, '<!-- wpv-loop-end -->' );
      $out = substr( $out, 0, $end );
    } else {
      $start = strpos( $out, '>' );
      if ( $start !== false) {
        $out = substr( $out, $start + 1 );
        $end = strpos( $out, '<' );
        $out = trim(substr( $out, 0, $end ));
      }
    }
  }
  return $out;
}

Note the view's ID at line 3 (885).

At this stage, the return of the view still contains new line breaks and two HTML tags used by Toolset(div and script). I created the following shortcode to generate the view and clean it up from the HTML tags(<div> and <script>) and white spaces.

add_shortcode('prefix-link', function(){
  $out = render_view(array(
    'name' => 'edzesprogram-url-seged'
  ));
  $out = preg_replace('/\s\s+/', '', $out);
  $out = preg_replace( "/(<div.*?<\/div>)/is", '', $out );
  $out = preg_replace( "/(<script.*?<\/script>)/is", '', $out );
  return $out;
});

And used the shortcode instead of the view.

<a href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em> field='datum' style='text' format='Y.m.d.'][/types]&estat=[types field='edzes-statusza'][/types]&etip=[types field='edzes-tipusa'][/types]&ejel=[types field='edzes-jellege'][/types]&ehos=[types field='edzes-hossza' format='FIELD_VALUEperc'][/types]&eleir=[types field='leiras' output='raw'][/types][prefix-link]">PROBLEMATIC LINK</a>

Please note that I moved the link code from the content template to the loop's directly in hidden link

I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.

[attilaT]

It works like a charm.
Thank you very much Jamal!