An apostrophe in a user name used in a conditional statement will fail

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Last updated by Darryl Il y a 4 années et 1 mois.

Assisted by: Luo Yang.

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mars 3, 2020 at 11:09 pm #1538009

Darryl

The conditional statement:

[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-author]' eq '[wpv-current-user]' )"]

will fail if the user name is something like Bob O'Leary with an apostrophe in the name.

I've seen posts here stating that using a backtick can be a workaround, but this is someone's name that they have entered so it's out of my control.

In this particular case I created a workaround with:

[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-author format="meta" meta="user_login"]' eq '[wpv-user field="user_login"]' )"]

which works for me because the login usernames are created programmatically and only use numbers.

mars 4, 2020 at 7:20 am #1538361

Luo Yang

Hello,

Thanks for sharing the workaround, that will help other users.

And it is a known issue, see our document:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views/conditional-html-output-in-views/#field

You should avoid using apostrophes like ' and " in Values you compare with HTML conditionals.

mars 10, 2020 at 6:58 pm #1545961

Darryl

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!

This ticket is now closed. If you're a WPML client and need related help, please open a new support ticket.