Grouped Fields: Maintain Multiple Values Per Field?

Dave LeDev
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5 years 7 months ago #74775 by Dave LeDev

Grouped Fields: Maintain Multiple Values Per Field? was created by Dave LeDev

I'm looking to either bind two fields within a DIV container or support multiple values per field within a group. So for such an odd case, I assume I'd have to make 2 different layouts for values:

One layout to start the DIV tag on one field
One layout to close the DIV container on the second field

Any other ideas, or would this be the best approach?

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5 years 6 months ago #74807 by Dave LeDev

Replied by Dave LeDev on topic Grouped Fields: Maintain Multiple Values Per Field?

Upon further experimentation, I realized any templating performed at the value level wouldn't be sufficient to create a container for my fields. I would need to be able to make a template override at the field level, but I can't seem to find a feature to let me do that.

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5 years 6 months ago #74810 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic Grouped Fields: Maintain Multiple Values Per Field?

Hello

every field inside the fieldgroup is a real field
- go to the fields manager, find the field and create / use a custom layout for it

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5 years 6 months ago #74832 by Dave LeDev

Replied by Dave LeDev on topic Grouped Fields: Maintain Multiple Values Per Field?

Unless I've overlooked something, Fieldgroup forces me to have each field dependent upon the group, as shown:

I want to be able to have fields grouped but independent of the group, somewhat like so:

This topic is somewhat related to this one , and depending on the solution in the other thread, it may solve my problem here.

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5 years 6 months ago #74836 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic Grouped Fields: Maintain Multiple Values Per Field?

Hello

Currently only 3 fields exist, that can do what you suggest

select multiple
checkbox
checkbox image

the above allow multiple option per value, and inside a field-group they allow multiple option per value

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5 years 6 months ago - 5 years 6 months ago #74838 by Dave LeDev

Replied by Dave LeDev on topic Grouped Fields: Maintain Multiple Values Per Field?

the above allow multiple option per value, and inside a field-group they allow multiple option per value

I'm unable to find this functionality. Currently I'm only finding multiple options per group, not per value, as shown here:

I found a patchy solution that does this for the front-end. For the form portion micker pointed me towards Groupmarker (further detailed on Facebook) ; I still need to experiment with it, but that's a lower priority for now. For the front-end, I had to make a conditional statement to create open and close container tags for fields. The check isn't foolproof, but for now it serves its purpose. Having all the field names in arrays makes it simpler to edit if I ever change the field names themselves.

\components\com_flexicontent\templates\items-tabbed-1\item_html5.php (a clone of a core template)

Code:

﻿<?php if (isset($item->positions[$tabpos_name])): ?>
<!-- tab start -->
<div id="<?php echo $tab_id; ?>" class="tabbertab">
   <h3 class="tabberheading"><?php echo $tabpos_label; ?></h3><!-- tab title -->
   <div class="flexi lineinfo">
      <!-- start check if fields for containers exist -->
      <?php $fieldCheck = 0;
      $fieldOpen = array(
         "social-favorite-food-most");
      $fieldClose = array(
         "social-favorite-food-least");
      foreach ($item->positions[$tabpos_name] as $field) :
         if (in_array($field->name, $fieldOpen) || in_array($field->name, $fieldClose)):
            $fieldCheck++;
         endif;
      endforeach; ?>
      <!-- end check if fields for containers exist -->
      
      <?php foreach ($item->positions[$tabpos_name] as $field) : ?>
         <!-- container open start -->
         <?php if ($fieldCheck % 2 == 0 && in_array($field->name, $fieldOpen)): ?>
            <div class="flexi field-container">
         <?php endif; ?>
         <!-- container open end -->
         <div class="flexi element field_<?php echo $field->name; ?>">
            <?php if ($field->label) : ?>
            <span class="flexi label field_<?php echo $field->name; ?>"><?php echo $field->label; ?></span>
            <?php endif; ?>
            <div class="flexi value field_<?php echo $field->name; ?>"><?php echo $field->display; ?></div>
         </div>
         <!-- container close start -->
         <?php if ($fieldCheck % 2 == 0 && in_array($field->name, $fieldClose)): ?>
            </div>
         <?php endif; ?>
         <!-- container close end -->
      <?php endforeach; ?>
      
   </div>
</div>
<!-- tab end -->
<?php endif; ?>

         <?php endif; ?>
         <!-- container close end -->
      <?php endforeach; ?>
      
   </div>
</div>
<!-- tab end -->
<?php endif; ?>

If a container field existed, this would be a LOT easier. *laughs*

Last edit: 5 years 6 months ago by Dave LeDev.

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