Custom-fields is what make EE tick. In a blog or news website analogy, besides an excerpt or body field, entries can have all kinds of custom-fields, from date type fields to google-maps.
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Merge multiple relationship fields into a single multi-relationship field
Has anyone looked into merging several pre-2.6 relationship fields into a 2.6+ multiple relationship field? For example, if I have a book store where each book can have multiple authors and currently ...
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Help in write a script to Pre-fill matrix field when creating new entry
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Pre-fill matrix field when creating new entry?
Some body can help me in writing a script that does this task.
I've thi particular case. I've to fill the matrix field like the ...
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Editing custom fields for multiple entries at once
Is there any way to edit the same custom field for multiple entries at once?
Something like an entry equivalent of the field editor add-on.
I know Zenbu has title/url editing available, just ...
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Order entries by custom time field
I'm trying to build a conference schedule and I would like each time slot entry in my channel to be ordered by the time designated in a custom field. My first approach used a text field {start_time} ...
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Random String Returned on Plugin
I have a simple plugin that runs a query and returns a single value.
{exp:company_id id='{segment_3}'}
This outputs a number such as 5081
If I do this:
{preload_replace:cid="{exp:company_id ...
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Display entries from channel if checked on publish page
I have a page where I am allowing the client to choose which channel entries are displayed on the page, which is controlled by a field with checkboxes on the publish page.
If rides is checked, I need ...
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Custom Field Type - Data not passing to the view
I'm trying to create my own custom field type, however, when I go to load the view, the var's within my display_field function, are Undefined. All I'm trying to do, is Load a view file, then in the ...
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Automatically generate a form based on a channel field set?
I have a field set that's going to be growing over time. Users will be filling out forms on signup that represent this field set.
Is there a way to automatically generate this sign up form based on ...
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WYGWAM/CKEditor Skin
I’ve got something here that is absolutely not critical, but it's bugging me and I’ve been encouraged to post it here to see if anyone can help out.
I am trying to change the skin of WYGWAM to one I ...
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How can I use exp:query in entries?
I'm looking for a way to use exp:query in entries. So far I haven't been able to find this. I know it's not recommended but for what I'm trying to build it's most feasible to do so. That way I'll be ...
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Field to select an existing page
Does anyone know of a custom field that will allow the user to select an existing page from the site?
Throughout the site are going to be little snippets of information that will link through to ...
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How to paginate or organize Expression Engine by custom field data input
I have an ExpressionEngine site that takes information entered from an admin, and information entered from users through SafeCracker, and displays that information in a timeline format.
The ...
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Assign different and specific subfolder to each Member with Assets
i've to assign a subfolder to each member so when "User1" uses the Assets field to upload his photo, this is stored in a subfolder "main_upload_folder/user1_subfolder/".
When "User2" uses the Assets ...
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Is there a way to ignore the field formatting of a custom field?
I know you can change them globally from the Admin menu, but what I was hoping for was someway to temporarily ignore the field formatting selected and simply output the data in the field.
Why? I have ...
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Publish layouts for channel entries, not just channel groups
I have a project that requires a lot of individual fields specific to a page. I am looking to use a single field group, and hide unwanted fields from a client so they can edit a section on the one ...
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Changed a textarea to a RTE textarea, now not working in safecracker
I had a custom field in a channel that was a standard text area. This was also included within a safecracker form. I recently changed the field to a RTE text area field, and all my existing entries ...
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Is there a downside of using WYGWAM over Rich Text formatting buttons
I've always tried to avoid using WYSIWYG except for the main body field, thinking that it was better to try and keep as much as possible as plain text in the database.
But the conflicting ...
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How to remove the 'Add html button' button from the formatting toolbar
If you show/allow the default HTML formatting buttons for a custom field there is a red cross that allows you to add HTML formatting buttons.
Many of my users find this confusing and don't understand ...
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Pre populate a text input field
I have a number of text input fields in an event registration channel that I would like to be pre-poulated with defaults and so not require entering anything unless it's different.
This thread gives ...
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P&T switch in with lightbox integration issue
I'm sure i have selected the perfect title for this however, if someone can come up with a better title, feel free to edit.
Anyway, I am having a slight issue integrating a combination of functions ...
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P&T Checkbox field not outputting on site?
I've been working on a dev site for the past month or so. Everything was working fine. Started to upgrade the live site just now. It's pretty much all gone smoothly, except for 2 fields that are not ...
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Methods of including other EE fields in a custom field type
I am developing a custom field type which needs to display fields from two different channels in the CP Edit and Publish pages. Users of this field type will need to edit the data from those different ...
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EE date timestamps have different values for the same date/time
i have a list of movie screenings sorted by date. now the client wants to be able to order additionaly with a custom order field, i don't get to the second order_by however...
it seems when you enter ...
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Safecracker Matrix only publishing one row, even if more are added
I am trying to use Matrix within a Safecracker field. I am able to submit entries successfully. However I can only submit one row to the custom matrix field. Even if I have added more than one row in ...
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Orderby Custom Date Not Working
I am using ExpressionEngine 2.5.2 and am unable to get my entries to sort by a custom date field. I have two sites through the Multisite Manager that I am pulling entries from. On both sites, the ...
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search=field_name: and special characters from URL segment
I am using the following tag to get only channel entries with a custom field matching the last URL segment:
{exp:channel:entries search:collection_name="={last_segment}"}
This works fine for most ...
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Changing Field Groups for existing channel
I've just (finally) upgraded from EE1.x to EE2.5.5. (I was able to use Importer and Matrix to recreate my photo galleries with enough functionality to maintain them as a "legacy" gallery. If you are ...
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Grouped <select> custom field?
I have a safecracker form that allows users to post location details. At the moment, I use a combination of a standard for them to choose the country, and the reegion select fieldtype to select the ...
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Show a channel field based on whether it has a value or not?
More questions I'm afraid!
Hopefully this will be an easy one.
I have a variety of customs fields, not all required. I want to show a block of code, based on whether or not that field has any ...
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Matching a Low Variable matrix field with custom channel field
Hopefully this will be easy to sort.
One of my custom channel fields is a select dropdown.
I have created a low variable matrix field, which contains two columns.
Column 1 is "Name" & Column 2 ...
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Cannot retrieve custom fields inside exp:store:checkout tag
Following Store official documentation I'm trying to include the content of some custom fields inside my {exp:store:checkout}{/exp:store:checkout} tags.
According to the docs:
Inside the {items} ...
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Display Choice from Select Dropdown Custom Field in Sidebar
This is taken from this previous thread but I still can't get the answer. Can someone help me?
Basically I am looking to be able to display different sidebar options dependant on what option is ...
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SQL Query to write member username to custom channel field
Can anyone help with the syntax to write ALL members 'Usernames' in a particular member Group to a custom_field in a channel.
Each member would have one entry each in this channel and I need to pull ...
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Order entries by custom date field, with empty date-entries last in list
I'm listing courses by a custom date field, but some courses are "on demand" and doesn't have a specific time. When using orderby="custom_field" and sort="asc" all the courses without a date shows up ...
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Quick way to get user's signature in PHP
I'm just wondering if there is a quick way to get a user's signature using something like the session class? For example to grab the active user's email from the session class you can simply call ...
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Can I Modify Custom Field Variables Before Output?
Here's the situation:
I have a custom field named {article} that contains and outputs formatted articles.
I would like to be able to modify that {article} variable before it outputs in the template.
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Channel Field Date: Ignore timestamp during comparisons
I have a channel field named start of campaign and one named end of campaign. I want to make do a conditional that says if today is equal to or later than the start of campaign AND today is before ...
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What are my best options for powerful member management with many custom fields?
Working on a college site that will have many, many members (in the hundreds), only a fraction of which will actually be editors in the CMS. All members need to have access to their own information ...
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ExpressionEngine Rich Text - the HTML Output is coming out weird
In EE's Rich Text editor, I typed in the following content.
I did not do any fancy markup or formatting.
All I did was set each heading to an H4, and typed paragraphs normally.
I did not touch the ...
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Add HTML5 tags to XHTML field formating
It looks like the «xhtml»-field-formating in EE 2.5.5 has problems with figure and figcaption. If I write…
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.
<figure ...
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How to populate Relationships
I'd like to manually populate the relationships table with some data.
I can see the structure of the exp_relationships table, which relates parent_entries to children.
However, for a custom field ...
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Need longer fields than EE natively allows
I have a couple of channels where I need to fit in more text than what EE natively allows. I was able to figure out how to change these fields from Text to Mediumtext, but when I upgraded from EE 1 to ...
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Requiring entry in one of two channel fields? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Fieldtype for 2 dependant fields
I am wondering if its possible to have a relationship between two channel fields. For example, lets say you have two text inputs: email ...
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Repeating field without using Matrix
Has anyone got a way to create a "repeating" field without using Matrix?
I kind of need Matrix's ability to create new "rows" but since each row would just have a single bit of text using Matrix ...
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Basic Channel Tag throwing PHP errors
Solution was to save entries until the entries with "bad data" were saved over.
I wrote a quick tag to display all entries in a list from a particular channel. However, it threw a bunch of PHP ...
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Can Postmaster update custom fields after sending emails?
Is it possible to make Postmaster update an entry's custom field after it sends an email? I've got a custom field called 'Email Sent' and it'd be nice to stick a 'yes' in there for peace of mind once ...
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Are there any custom field types, besides Matrix, that allow you to create an updatable, non-finite list of things?
One of my main use cases for Matrix is when I need to manage a non-finite list of things related to an entry (e.g. translation links for articles may trickle in over time, and there's no pre-defined ...
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How to separate view from `display_field` of a custom field type?
I am implementing a custom field type which has quite a complex display_field function. I would like to separate the view logic and at the moment I have done the following:
function ...
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Combining the zoo visitor {member_firstname} {member_lastname} field automagically into one field {member_name}
Zoo Visitor has an elegant setting that makes {screen_name} very nice:
Set screen_name as a combination of the following fields
The default setting is {member_firstname} {member_lastname}. ...
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P&T Dropdown/Select Dropdown - allow users to enter item not in list?
I'm using Matrix and one of my fields needs to be a Select Dropdown, but since it apparently isn't an option in Matrix I had to install P&T Dropdown. Is there a way to let users enter their own ...
