Tell us what you are trying to do? Hi, hope you can help, it’s driving me mad: I have this page : hidden link
That has three slide shows of selected images from my objectsdbs. I am trying to create a similar slide show on this page: hidden link but from selected images from my exhdbs, Content Selection Exhdbs, Custom field filter Exh screen saver is a string equal to add. When I then go to the container I want to show the images in and want to select the image from the Exhdbs I cannot select any of the dbs, just the “Current Page” and Other Posts”. Probably something bleeding obvious, but my old brain cannot find it 😊
Is there any documentation that you are following? The usual
Is there a similar example that we can see? As above
This sounds like a problem of context. If you want to output custom fields pertaining to your Exhbds post type then the context should be an Exhbds post that has values for those custom fields.
So if you added a View to the page which is querying Exhbds posts, the View loop block where you design the View output takes the first result of the View query (most likely the most recent Exhbds post, unless you specified some other order criteria) and uses that as the source for the fields used to preview the results.
If that post doesn't have any field values (maybe it's a test post) then you cannot select those fields as the source.
If that is the problem, either edit the post which is the first result of the View query so that it does have values for the fields you want to use, or update the View so that a different Exhbds post with the necessary values is first in the results (e.g. by temporarily modifying the sort settings or applying some filter).
The database Exhdbs had a fair number of yet empty fields, so I imported only a subset that had values in all the relevant fields. In the view under which the container that should show the slideshow of images resides, I selected Exhdbs under Content selection, with no filtering. Yet when then select the container where i want to set the Background and select Image immediately a message pops up "The selected source does not provide any image data" , even before I can select the database under the "Post Source and "Current Page". In the existing containers that I use to achieve thsi I could always select the db and custom field. Any ideas? See screenshots, the TS4 a screenshot of a similar container
If I had access the first thing I would do is double check that the first result of the View—the one being used in the preview as you design the output whose title would be output if you used dynamic sources to generate it in a Single Field or Heading block—does indeed have values for the expected image data.
Go and edit that post to confirm.
If it does, then I'm struggling to think what the problem might be. I would likely need access, and possibly to take a copy of your site to investigate more thoroughly locally.
Let me set up a private reply now in case we need to go down that route so that I can get log-in credentials from you—you may want to create a temporary admin user for me to use that you can later delete. And be sure to have a current backup of your site.
I edited the page in question and located the View block.
I reviewed the settings for what the View was querying. It was set up as a View slider with automatic transition, to make it easier to see what was going on I changed it to manual transition to halt the slider effect.
When I edited the View it didn't have any fields in the Loop Output so there was nothing to output, so I added a Single Field block to just output the title. I didn't have any problems choosing the current Exhdbs post as the source for the title.
So I added an Image block, where I also didn't have any problems selecting the current Exhdbs post as the source and was then able to choose the relevant custom field.
That's how I've left it, it's working as far as I can tell.
Again, I'm not sure what the problem was you were encountering, I couldn't spot anything obvious, but it at least appears to be working as expected now.
Hi Nigel, indeed it does work now, a mystery to me why it did not do it in the first place. My edited version now works under hidden link I only have two minor gripes:
-Is there any way to eliminate the Pagination on the screen? I somehow did this long time ago on hidden link (although they still appear in editing mode) but I cannot see how. There is no CSS code added as far as I can see. I tried to find a solution but https://toolset.com/forums/topic/hide-pagination-on-a-specific-view/ does not work for me. Any suggestions?
- There is a big empty space between the heading and the slide show. I tried everything to get rid of it, but if it is just the way Toolset lays it out than so be it.
I edited the page and note that the pagination is added by a pagination block within the View (screenshot), so I simply deleted it.
It wasn't obvious to me there was a problem with a gap between header and slider. (It could have been fixed by removing the pagination, which doesn't sound obvious, but the pagination is displayed as links, and you have a container for the whole content which is a link. You cannot nest links in HTML, and that can produce broken markup, that may result in some unexpected visuals. Perhaps that was the problem and removing the inner links—the pagination—helped resolve that.)
Hi Nigel, BIG THANKS, it all works as expected now!! I have noticed before that repeatedly adding and deleting elements can upset the code, and in the worst case prevent saving a page. I now have discovered how to go back a few versions so that makes it a lot easier to resolve the issue. While (as an older and intermittent user) I find Toolset still a challenge I LOVE the functionality it gives my site and can only compliment the great support Toolset gives when I get stuck !!. Thanks, kind regards, Ruud
