[Résolu] Parametric Search: Display results ONLY if all check boxes are present in field.

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[peterH-7]

Ok, so I am trying to make a parametric search on my site which displays recipes. I have a bunch of data which includes recipe name and ingredients. I have made a custom post type called Recipes which has this data in custom fields. The ingredients are in a repeater field (single line text). There is only 4 ingredients or less per recipe.

Now I want to make a "recipe finder" page which basically has a parametric search feature so that users can tick which ingredients they have at home and then the view will display a list of recipes which match ALL of their ingredients. By default the views parametric search can filter the results of the view by ingredient but it does not check to see if the recipe ingredients match ALL of the checkboxes filled in by the user.

So this means, for example, if there are lots of recipes with "fish" as an ingredient the view will display all of these results as soon as a user check the "fish" box. What I want is to display only results with match ALL of the check boxes ticked by the users and none of the results which only match SOME of the boxes ticked.

I'm not sure if this is possible, however, I though I would try. Is the repeater the best field for this kind of use?

[Minesh Supporter Languages: Anglais (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

As I understand you want to different set of data that belongs to your post so I suggest you should create a different custom field or taxonomy for ingredients and then, later filter your view with the custom field with "And" or "OR" as required.

Following links may help you:
=> https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/front-page-filters/
=> https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/filtering-views-by-taxonomy/
=> https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/passing-arguments-to-views/

[peterH-7]

Thanks, I've had a read through those links but I'm still unsure. I have a custome field for ingredients, and I have a filter to make checkboxes for this custom field. I need the checkboxes to use AND though. So I can tick for example "chicken" and "garlic" and this filters it for recipes which have ONLY "chicken" and "garlic" but nothing else. At the moment the filter allows things which have just one of "chicken" or "garlic" even though they also have other ingredients which are not ticked in the checkboxes.

Edit: I'm going to try filtering by taxonomy tomorrow, as maybe this will solve it and let it behave how I am looking for.

[Minesh Supporter Languages: Anglais (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

please let me know the result how it goes with taxonomy.

[peterH-7]

So I haven't fully tried taxonomy yet, although I'm not sure it would work.

Is there any way to achieve the following:

On the view front end, before displaying a post (Recipe) first check the state of the filter checkboxes (my filters). So I would have it check the checkboxes and IF my custom field (ingredients) is NOT checked, then don't display the post. So if ANY ingredient is NOT checked in the checkboxes the entire Recipe would not be displayed in this view. Put another way: all values of the ingredient custom field MUST be checked before the post is displayed - if one ingredient is not checked then the post is not displayed in the view.

Thanks for any help!

[Minesh Supporter Languages: Anglais (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

1)
Views offer you to put only search form on one page and search result on another page.

When you try to insert your view to the page, it will give you options to insert only search form and display results on another page. I think this will suit your requirement.

Please refer to the following link:
=> https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/front-page-filters/
[ Refer section: "Displaying the Parametric Search View on the Site" ]

Does this help?

2)
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[peterH-7]

Ok I think I might have worked a way around it, but now I need a way of ensuring that the default state of my filter checkboxes is "checked".

So when a user first loads the page all of the checkbox filters are checked. That way they can go and uncheck the ones that they need. Is there any way to do this?

[Minesh Supporter Languages: Anglais (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

To select all checkbox by default, we need to add custom javascript.

Could you please check now:
hidden link

I've added following code to your views JS box:

jQuery(document).ready(function($){
  $(".wpcf-form-item-checkbox :checkbox").prop("checked", true);
});

[peterH-7]

Thanks that does work for what I need. I basically just changed the filter to the operator NOT IN and then changed the checkbox styles with css to reverse the looks of checked and unchecked. Then with that js the checkboxes start off checked (which to the user is unchecked). It's a bit confusing but it works, so thanks for the help!