Profile: davidm-13

Problem: I have a table-style View that displays several columns of custom field values. I would like to use a conditional that hides the value in a specific column if the value is identical to the same column in a previous row.

Solution: When the loop is rendered, each iteration has no reference to a previous or future iteration. That means it's not possible to set up a conditional that compares a value from one iteration to a value in another iteration. Instead, you would have to do this with custom CSS and JavaScript. For example, add a custom class to each system-cf cell, and a wrapper span tag like this:

<td class="only-first-system-cf"><span>[wpv-post-field name="wpcf-system-cf"]</span></td>

Then in your custom CSS:

.only-first-system-cf > span {
  display:none;
}
 
.only-first-system-cf.first > span {
  display:inline;
}

Then in your custom JS:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
  var firsts = [];
  var txt = '';
  jQuery('.only-first-system-cf').each(function(index, item) {
    txt = jQuery(item).text();
    if(firsts.indexOf(txt) == -1){
        firsts.push(txt);
        jQuery(item).addClass('first');
    }
  });
});

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/digging-into-view-outputs/
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/adding-custom-css-views/
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/adding-custom-javascript-views/
https://api.jquery.com/jquery.each/

Problem:

I need the posts to be sorted by field A within field B. The problem is that both field A and B are taxonomies. Is there a recommended workaround to achieve this?

Solution:

There isn't such a built-in feature to convert term fields to post fields, in your case, the post fields is required to sort the view's result.

So you might need to consider custom codes, for example:

https://toolset.com/forums/topic/sort-output-from-view-by-taxonomy-fields/#post-1096668

Relevant Documentation:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_posts