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[Resolved] Single Field Block in a list: how to edit attributes?

This support ticket is created 3 years, 11 months ago. There's a good chance that you are reading advice that it now obsolete.

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Last updated by Minesh 3 years, 11 months ago.

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#2079827

Tell us what you are trying to do? I'm creating a Content Template and simply want an 2-column HTML list of the fields and their names. So, I have a Toolset Container, then a standard WordPress Table. In the left column I just use standard Paragraph for each row, as the label. On the right, I use Toolset Single Field.

For each of these Toolset Single Fields, I can specify the Post Source, Source, and Field, but there are no additional settings shown on the right side. In the List View of all blocks, it shows the Toolset Container and Table blocks, but nothing below that. i.e., my Single Fields are not shown in that List.

Some of the values I want to display are URLs, and I want to display something like "Download" instead of the URL text (and have it be a clickable link, of course), but I'm stymied here, as it looks like the Single Field can't do much of anything.

Am I doing it wrong? Is there a better way to display the list of fields? I tried using Grid, but it was an unwieldy mess.

#2079999

Minesh
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Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

For such customization to display the download link - you should use the "Fields and Text" block and within the fields and text block switch to the HTML view and add the anchor tag:

<a href="[your-types-field]"> Download </a>

Where:
- Use the Views icon to add the URL for the types field.

#2082111

Thanks, Minesh.

After being frustrated with Blocks for days, I have found the real answer: do NOT use the Blocks Editor, but rather, use the Classic Editor. That's what I did, and am MUCH happier and productive with Toolset. The Blocks attempt at WYSIWIG is a buggy, incomplete, frustrating mess - and that's not a criticism of Toolset, per se, but with Blocks. It creates more problems than it solves.

Now that I'm not using Blocks, I am very impressed with Toolset and will recommend it. I wish I had found out about Toolset months ago, before wasting time on lesser solutions, which I have now completely stripped out, in favor of Toolset. Please keep up the great work!

-- jdm

#2084395

Minesh
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Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)

Thanks for your feedback and you are welcome to mark resolve this ticket 🙂