Show only parent woocommerce category in post form

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Last updated by Shane 5 years, 3 months ago.

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February 25, 2020 at 2:50 pm #1527005

goncaloS

Hello,
I've created a post form for adding products following this guidance https://toolset.com/learn/create-an-ecommerce-wordpress-site/#step-11

The form displays all product categories as a dropdown and I would like to shown only the parent, user would choose it, then I would drill down and show the sub category, and so on.

Current list of categories shown e.g.
Accessories
- Bags
- Jewelry
-- Rings
Clothes
- Underwear
-- Bra's
- Skirts
- Tshirts
Shoes

What I would like to shown on the dropdown
Accessories
Clothes
Shoes

2nd step, eg. user clicked on Accessories, it would show
- Bags
- Jewelry

3rd step, user clicked on Jewelry
-- Rings

Where can I change this drop-down behavior?

February 25, 2020 at 6:36 pm #1527329

Shane

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Hi Goncala,

Unfortunately this isn't possible to do without the use of custom coding.

Since this is a single taxonomy then all the terms will be displayed for you to choose from.

Thanks,
Shane

February 25, 2020 at 7:32 pm #1527415

goncaloS

Hi Shane,

What about these solutions proposed here?
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/showing-taxonomy-terms-only-once-a-drill-down-set-of-pages/
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/add-toolset-view-to-toolset-form/

Is that something that I could adapt for my situation?
I just want some workaround since I expect to have around 200 categories and it's unacceptable from a User perspective...

February 25, 2020 at 8:04 pm #1527477

Shane

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Hi Goncalo,

The solution here
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/showing-taxonomy-terms-only-once-a-drill-down-set-of-pages/

This is for a view and not for the form.

Secondly this solution here
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/add-toolset-view-to-toolset-form/

Won't work either because your dropdowns are going to be dependent. You won't be able to have a dependent taxonomy in this fashion.

It is possible if you use a combination of custom fields so when the user select value in Custom Field A only the custom field B will display.

This will require some amount of setup in Types with the use of the conditional statement for the fields.

Thanks,
Shane