Post Type Not Appearing in Form

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Problem: One of my custom post types is not appearing in the CRED form builder.

Solution: Be sure that the show_ui option is checked in the editor screen for this custom post type.

Relevant Documentation:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type

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Tagged: Content-submission forms, Forms with post relationships, Toolset Forms

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Last updated by aaronM-9 6 years, 6 months ago.

Assisted by: Christian Cox.

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April 28, 2018 at 8:40 pm #759301

aaronM-9

One of my forms has broken and I cannot see the post type on the list of available post types. The post type has a status of published and the solution offered in a previous thread did not solve the problem. Recreating the form from scratch also does not solve the issue.

This all started when I realized I had to completely change how I handle user profiles because you cannot do custom queries of users! Hopefully this is a feature that will be added in a future release. Looks like it didn't make it into Views 2.6.

The post type is Member-Skill and the forms are User-Skill-Add and User-Skill-Edit. The post type used to be called User-Skill but I changed it hoping that might trick it into working.

I'd prefer not to have to rebuild the post type and all fields but let me know if this is the only solution. Thanks.

- Aaron

April 29, 2018 at 4:39 pm #762538

aaronM-9

As an update, another post type is now exhibiting the same problem. The post type "Group Members" is not appearing in the drop-down list of available post types when trying to create a new content submission form.

- Aaron

April 29, 2018 at 4:45 pm #762579

aaronM-9

I figured it out. I had un-checked the show_ui attribute in the post type setup screen. I thought this was just the WordPress interface and didn't realize it affected interfaces inside of Toolset. For my knowledge, can you confirm for me what the show_ui box affects? Thanks.

- Aaron

April 29, 2018 at 9:54 pm #763766

Christian Cox

Hi, the show_ui parameter is described in the register_post_type function documentation here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type
It's not so straight-forward because you can see that this attribute's behavior is interconnected with several other post type attributes.

April 30, 2018 at 11:53 pm #774395

aaronM-9

Thanks!