[Resolved] Use of taxonomy termfields in Views

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[rainerS]

I am trying to:

set the color of a headline of a CPT based on a term field of a taxonomy used by the CPT

I have a custom post type "competences"
I have a custom taxonomy "competences_tag" with a term field "competence_color"

I created a view to show all competences and I want to set the color of the headline of each competence to the "competence_color" of the "competence_tag" selected at the competence.

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Rainer,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

Could you let me know what type of information the competence_color holds ? Does it contain the hexcode of your color ?

Also I would like to see how your view loop is setup. This would allow me to get an understanding of how we can go forward on this.

Thanks,
Shane

[rainerS]

Please find some screenshots explaining the situation.

We used a separate taxonomy now for the colors.
The intended solution, however, is to use the color set in the taxonomy termfield of the competences taxonomy.

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Rainer,

Thank you for the additional information.

It seems from your trying to use the shortcode to do the css styling.

Unfortunately since version 4.3 of wordpress you are no longer able to use shortcodes in style attribute. See the link below for further details.

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/07/23/changes-to-the-shortcode-api/

Please let me know if this helps.
Thanks,
Shane

[rainerS]

Hi Shane!

This is not the problem.

The problem is how to access a term field in a taxonomy when I don't use a taxonomy view or taxonomy archive.

we have a view of the CPT "competences".
This CPT uses a taxonomy "competences_tag"
We want to access a term field of this taxonomy.

rgds
Rainer

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Rainer,

The problem here is that since you are using a view to list out CPT then you wont have access to the term fields.

Term fields can only be displayed in a taxonomy view. So this is a limitation that we have here.

So its not possible to have term fields in a CPT view .

Thanks,
Shane