Output single field not working anymore?

NO this is not a bug, for performance reasons in future versions of FlexiContent, fields not in a template position WILL NOT have their display created. Imagine in category having 100 items and only displaying their titles and 1 or 2 fields.

Why would ever want to create the display of all fields of the items and possibly triggering plugins on them. You want your category view to require 10-20 seconds to load?

IN YOUR current version only you can use:
$this->item->fields->display
BUT the code i gave above will work in future versions

Regards

Also in future versions (1.5.6) you can use this:

echo FlexicontentFields::getFieldDisplay($this->item, 'modified');

To create and retrieve the display of the field, without any other changes to the template

Regards

great !!

When you said clean the cache, did you mean the joomla cache or the browser cache? i've been having problems getting the positions i put in the .xml file to show up in the backend. I'll create the position, called facebook_like like this:

<group>facebook_like</group>

and then I go into the templates in the backend and refresh and the position doesn't show up to allow me to put a field in it. Any ideas why?

I tried what you stated in the previous post:

==> 2. Then clean cache
==> 3. Go to the template manager and drag & drop: your field e.g 'modified' to the new position.
==> 4. Inside your template file item.php use:
$this->item->positions->modified->label
$this->item->positions->modified->display
First is the Field's Label and Second the output of the field. The 'modified' is the name of the field could anything you named your field e.g. 'mynameABCD'

I created a new position, put the field "facebook_like" into that position, and then used that $this->item->... code to try and make it display on the frontend. However it doesn't show up at all.

I should also mention I'm upgraded to version 1.5.5 now.