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Problem: I have CPTs Tours and Countries, and I have a custom taxonomy TourCategories. Each Country post is represented as a term in the TourCategories taxonomy, and Tours related to each Country are assigned the matching TourCategory term. I would like to show a View of Tours associated with the current Country on the single Country post.
Solution: Create a View of Tours filtered by TourCategory term, where the term is set by the current post slug. Insert the View of Tours in a Content Template for the Country post type.
Relevant Documentation: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/passing-arguments-to-views/
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/filtering-views-by-taxonomy/
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Last updated by 6 years, 7 months ago.
Assisted by: Christian Cox.
Hi, may I kindly ask you to create separate tickets for each question in the future? This helps us keep the forum organized, and helps others find answers to similar questions more efficiently. Thanks for your help!
1. If the slug of the Odyssey World Country post "Botswana" is identical to the slug of the Odyssey World Category term "Botswana", and the same is true for all the other O.W.Country post slugs and O.W.Category term slugs, then this is fairly straightforward. Create a View of all O.W. Tour posts and add a Query Filter, filtered by O.W.Category taxonomy term, where the term slug is set by a shortcode attribute. See queryfilter.png for an example. My taxonomy is "book-tax" and my attribute is "wpvbooktax" but your taxonomy will be something else, and your attribute can be something else. The attribute is arbitrary, but should only be lowercase letters for simplicity.
Then to specify the filter, pass the current page's slug into the shortcode attribute like this:
[wpv-view name="your-tour-view-slug" wpvbooktax="[wpv-post-slug id='$current_page']"]
This technique is called passing arguments into a View, and is explained in more detail here: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/passing-arguments-to-views/
To further automate this so you don't need to insert the View in each Country post, you need to insert the View in a Content Template. Then apply that Content Template to all Country posts. More about Content Templates:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/editing-view-templates/
2. There's not an easy way to set up a View that loops over a single comma-separated text string like this, and if features are not encoded as separate options in a custom field then there's no good way to filter a custom search View based on features.
If custom searches filtered by features aren't important, then you may be able to create a new custom post type "Features" and add each possible feature as a custom post in that post type. Then it may be possible to configure the import process to map those feature names with feature post IDs. A comma-separated string of numeric IDs could be used as a View's post ID filter using a shortcode attribute like I mentioned above. A comma-separated string of text isn't quite as reliable as a comma-separated string of numeric IDs, which would be less likely to change over time.
If you have additional questions about comma-separated lists, please feel free to open a separate ticket so we can discuss in more detail.
