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[Resolved] When creating a view I can't see the Loop Editor

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Last updated by Christian Cox 4 years, 4 months ago.

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#1918891
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When I watch the demo videos I can see a Loop Editor when the person is creating or editing a View. This is not displaying for me. How dos I display the Loop Editor.

#1919173

Hi, you are describing the process for creating a View in what we now refer to as the legacy editing experience. The legacy editing experience is how Views were created in the Toolset Views plugin before the Toolset Blocks plugin existed. It's not based on the Block Editor, but based on a shortcode approach with HTML. The legacy experience is still available and supported, and if you'd prefer to use this approach you can enable it in Toolset > Settings > General tab. There is an "editing experience" option available that will allow you to choose whether you want to build Views in the Block Editor or in the legacy Views editor. To edit a View in the legacy editor, you will go to Toolset > Views and create or edit an existing View there.

However, the Block Editor approach is usually recommended since no code is required. If you would prefer to use the Block editor to design Views without code, perhaps I can share an example of doing something similar in the Block Editor instead if you let me know which demo video you're referring to. I'll take a look and see if there are any examples demonstrating similar results with a View created in the Block Editor.

#1919473

The reason I was interested in the legacy view is that I'm trying to create a view where the output is pure JSON which I will then be using as an input into a separate Table plugin. I've raised another ticket about this and the reply showed a possible way of doing this vial the legacy interface.

#1919631

Okay yes, in this case it's probably best to use the legacy editor. You'll have greater fine-grain control over the output produced by the View, and can produce a more JSON-like structure. Let me know if you have problems accessing the legacy editor and I can take a closer look.