Trying to use search string filter in views

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Problem:
How to pass a search string to a View that includes a text search?

Solution:
You pass the search term using a wpv-view shortcode attribute, as described in the linked documentation.

Note that you can only pass shortcode attributes when inserting the View by shortcode, you cannot pass attributes when using a Views cell in a Layout, for example. In that case you would need to replace the Views cell with a Visual Editor cell and insert the View via shortcode.

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/passing-arguments-to-views/

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Last updated by chrisC-25 6 years, 1 month ago.

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October 12, 2018 at 7:23 pm #1126515

chrisC-25

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I have a post type called "artists" this shows a music artist. In the "layout" for that post type I want a view that pulls in any related items from a different post type called "news". I have built the view and want to filter it by the name of the artist in the current post.

For example if the Post is for artist "Kiss" the view in the layout should pull any "news" posts related to the search term "kiss".

This seems like it should be simple but I am struggling. In the post search filter I am trying to add [wpv-post-title] as the search term. This does not work......

See screenshots.

Thanks

October 15, 2018 at 8:26 am #1127351

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Hi Chris

I didn't test this but I'm guessing the wpv-post-title shortcode wouldn't be expanded in that scenario.

What you should do is pass the title to search by as a shortcode attribute.

You can see that in your longer screenshot, "Search for a text, set by the Views shortcode attribute:"

By default it is suggesting "search" as the attribute (which you could change), so where you insert your View in the template for Artists you would add the post title (for the Artist) as a search attribute like so:

[wpv-view name="news" search="[wpv-post-title]"]

The title shortcode will be expanded in that scenario.

https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/passing-arguments-to-views/

October 15, 2018 at 3:43 pm #1127546

chrisC-25

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Okay but I do not understand where I put this:
[wpv-view name="news" search="[wpv-post-title]"]

I try adding it to the "Search for a text, set by the View shortcode attribute:"

and I get an error, see screenshot.

Thanks

October 15, 2018 at 3:56 pm #1127554

chrisC-25

I figured it out, I need to use that shortcode instead of inserting the view in the layout.

Thanks!