Sort taxonomy by custom field internal to a form

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Tagged: Content-submission forms, CRED API, Toolset Forms, Types plugin

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Last updated by Christian Cox 5 years, 1 month ago.

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October 11, 2019 at 8:19 pm #1360641

DavidW2160

I have a form called "Activity". The form has a taxonomy "Days of the Week", with elements Monday, Tuesday, etc. The "add Activity" form displays the Days of the Week in alphabetical order (Friday, Monday, Saturday, etc.). I can add "1 Sunday", "2 Monday", but that clutters up the selection, especially since it's also a query field for a different
view.

I added a "sort order" custom field to the taxonomy, but it's not selectable when adding the taxonomy field to the form, so it's not usable for this purpose. I don't see any way to include a query over taxonomy and add that to the form either.

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October 13, 2019 at 3:22 pm #1360893

Christian Cox

Hi, there's no built-in way to assign an arbitrary order to these field options, unfortunately. One way you could achieve this sorting is to create a generic field and populate the options for each term manually. Since there are only 7 options to consider, this shouldn't be too difficult to maintain. Use the cred_save_data hook to capture the User's selection and add the appropriate term or terms to the post after the form is submitted.

https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/inserting-generic-fields-into-forms/
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_set_object_terms

Let me know if you have questions about using Toolset's APIs and I'll be glad to offer guidance.