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Last updated by 1 year, 4 months ago.
Assisted by: Waqar.
Tell us what you are trying to do?
I am building pages of information that contain a mix of references to (1) other pages containing a group of custom posts (site), or (2) just a custom post (site). When there is a group of sites that go together, I build a page and reference that, other times it is a single item and I reference the custom post "site". I use views to determine what shows up on the group pages. Now i want to build the page that contains the mix using a query. Sorry, no better word than page... Right now i have to add each item by hand because there are too many obstacles to doing it with a query. I use catalog items to identify what goes on a page. I added a plugin to add catalog items to pages. So i want to pull a mix of group (page) items and single (site) items onto the same page. this fails when I try to use a conditional to define what is displayed; pages don't have custom fields like the site does and fields like featured image aren't an option.
am i looking at it wrong? is there another way? otherwise i have to build those pages by hand.
Is there any documentation that you are following? No
Is there a similar example that we can see? No
What is the link to your site? hidden link
the page is actually named Places to Visit
note that only "Hometown of Kathryn Janeway" is a site, all others reference group pages
I am so frustrated because your website runs me in a circle and does not allow me to start a new ticket. How in the heck are we supposed to find the support ticket link (why is it not in an easy to see location?) only to have it send me off to a page that logs me out??? Are you guys going out of business?
I am very frustrated with the conditional block editor; it doesn't behave, it has a band across the bottom that blocks the drop-down information so i have to guess and there is no way to clear the conditions in place so i must go to the advanced editor and remove it there. now i am getting these errors and don't know what to do. I like your tools but boy do the UI's suck. I have had to abandon more than one template and restart because of glitches like this.
with respect to the ticket, see the screen shot. That was NOT what i was getting. I was getting the two options: chat with support or contact us. the chat option cycled with no response. the contact us option sent me to a page with no ability to create a ticket and i had been logged out because it had Log In in the upper-right corner.
If this was intentional for maintenance or downtime, please just say so!!
Yes, i needed to move forward so i created a new template. I do think this is a bug that you would be interested in tracking down.
the offending template is the event template and it is sitting in the trash. if you reinstate it you will see those warnings show up everywhere in all the templates.
i think what happened is when i edited the condition for the post (event) [see attached screenshot] it did not do what i wanted, so i went back to remove the condition but there was no way to remove it. So i looked in another template for what the original condition was [ (( '' eq '' ))] and used the advanced editor to put that value in. from that point on the warnings came up. Other than that, i still don't see a way with the editor to restore it to the original state (eliminate the condition).
If this is the source of the error, then it is a bug since the system should be self-healing and doesn't recognize its own initial state. Also, a way to reset to no conditions would be important to avoid this in the first place. Also, that editor has issues. There is a band between the buttons (cancel - apply) that blocks the drop-down list so i can't see items in the list. I tried to use the conditional based on a custom field (which never worked) and the list of custom fields is long. So i had to guess where the field was in the drop-down list and try until i got it.
also, the list was so long that a vertical scroll bar showed up which might have helped but when i went to move it down to display more of the drop-down list, the window reverted back to the original window size by collapsing the drop-down list and the scroll bar vanished. so that scroll bar is useless.
I am still struggling with the original issue -- how to merge events and sites on the same report with no duplicates meaning that child-sites for parent-events are not included in the merge, only the parent events + all other sites that meet the condition. I have done this in two views but that means i cannot order the items in a single list.
The business reason for this structure is: events are parents of sites for two reasons (1) it represents a location that has several things to see, so related sites, or (2) it is an episode of a series with related sites as filming locations (which may also be places to see). this is a many-to-many relationship. whether it is a filming location or child is defined in the site field is-child-event or event field is-parent-event, and site field is-film-location. for a particular site it can be any combination of values.
I want to make a list of places to visit but i don't want to include the child-sites only the parent-sites plus any other site (as a singleton) that has the category 'places to visit'. this way i get a full list of places to visit without duplicates. This structure is important because it is not always obvious that some child-sites are located in the same place -- thus the need for a parent grouping. If you navigate to the event template or site template, you will see that both relationships are displayed using conditionals as "film locations" or "places to visit" (event template - parent to child), or "series: season, episodes filmed here" or "belongs to group" (site template - child to parent). this allows the user to navigate freely.
thanks.
