Questions tagged [channel-entries]
Channel Entries are the primary tag used to show the content you create and edit via ExpressionEngine’s Publish section. It’s the most powerful tag in ExpressionEngine, and the most commonly used since its main function is to retrieve and display your site’s content.
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Custom Member's Channel Entries Defaulting To "Closed" Status
I created a member group and gave that group permission to add/edit a particular Channel. Whenever a new entry is made by a user in that member group, the status is set to "Closed." I looked at the ...
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How to display ONLY entries that have at a particular field present (like image)
How can I display entries that only have a particular field completed.
In my case I am displaying all entries but would like to exclude any entries that have no image field completed. The image ...
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I don't want users to enter {title} field
My channel has a few required fields. I want to use those required field to dynamically build the {title} instead of having the user enter it. Is there a way for me to, say, user {first_name} and {...
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Channel Entries Related Entries Filtering with Count
Lets say I have Channel A and B.
Channel A has a Field X which is a relationship to channel B.
Is there a way for the {exp:channel:entries} tag to get
only those Channel B entries that are referred ...
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How to set exp:channel:entries tag to no limit?
Based on this link in the documentation, the default limit is 100 if it is not defined.
How do you set it so that it will not have any limits?
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Excluding a Category
I am using ExpressionEngine 2.5.2
I have a website that includes a featured blog post at the top, as well as a news section that all of my blog posts in chronological order. When a blog post is ...
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Correct syntax for inserting a channel entry with a playa field?
I've been experimenting with using SQL INSERTs and UPDATEs instead of using the Channel Entries API in my add-on. In one of my channels I am using a playa field which is simply connected to a separate ...
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Channel Entries API incredibly slow performance
I am developing on a high performance MediaTemple DV at the moment. The RAM on the server is 16GB and while pages load relatively quickly, it appears that any scripts I write which use the Channel ...
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Limit the amount of entries a user can post?
Is it possible to limit the amount of entries that a user can post. For example, if users are posting entries to a channel via a safecracker form, can I limit them to a single entry?
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Find channel entries with a field value greater or less than
I figured there'd be an easy way to pull entry values via a field. I'm building a site that has a basic search for a price (for property) and was hoping to do something like:
{exp:channel:entries ...
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Multi-entry Channel Entries need to be a list?
Another question! I'm in the middle of a site redesign which has got me thinking about this.
When I am displaying multiple entries from a channel, i.e on a listing page, does the channel entries tag ...
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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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how to dynamically insert image into dynamic text
Ok, let say I have a channel entry that is dynamically being displayed on a page, and I also want to have an image displayed in that text as well, with the text nicely flowing around the image. So ...
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Content based on url segment
I'm just learning EE and I have the following example url, http://mydomain.com/work/preview/clientname
where I want clientname to match a channel field I have setup ("client_name") and to pull in ...
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Entries with multiple categories, limit categories to just one parent and it's selected children?
Not sure if this can be done natively or if an add-on is out there.
I'm trying to figure out a way to limit entries with multiple parent categories to just one parent and it's children. The reason, I ...
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Filter categories by AND and OR
This is a bit of a complex one, and a bit tricky to explain - but here it goes.
I'm trying to build an advanced filter system for an eCommerce website. Hypothetically, it would look like this (with [ ...
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how to get entries based on day - session timing - entries per session entry
How to get and output entries like this ( example event Agenda )
day01
—session time-span ( loops session timespan entries )
——session span entrie(s) ( one or multiple )
——session span entries ( one ...
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Partially Displaying Checkbox Options Based on Tab
This is somewhat a follow on question to Grouping Channel Fields
Say I have a checkbox field that has 100 options. I'd like to show about 20 options only when in a certain tab, then the complete 100 ...
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Preventing a double entries loop
This is something that I'm wondering how you solve it:
When building a site, the index template is served with segment 1 empty. If I start an entries loop in a embed, I'll need a conditional to show ...
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Orderby & sort not returning entries
I'm using the code below on EE2.5.3 and playa 4.3.3 and am not getting expected results. With the orderby and sort parameters in place, I only get 1 entry returned.
If I remove the orderby and sort ...
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Grouping Channel Fields
Is there a way to group Channel fields when displaying it in the Content section in EE's CP? A way to visually group related fields might be a usability improvement when there are a lot of Channel ...
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Using Safecracker with Playa
I'm using Safecracker to edit entries for the Channel Books. Suppose I have another Channel Publications.
I am using a Playa field to create relationships.
My understanding is that you can only use ...
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Channel Entries - Skip a particular channel entry
Okay, I've got a page with a url that has the channel entry title in the URL. At the beginning of the page, I show the single article for that entry, but then underneath the article, I need to show ...
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Channel entries not automatically filtered by language when using Transcribe
Hello fellow ExpressionEngineers,
I'm in the process of translating the website of one of my companies. It was made in french and I'm doing the english language translation.
For that job, it seemed ...
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set order of dynamically created links
I have a list a dynamically created links in my sidebar. I want one particular link to appear first in the list; the order after that is unimportant. How could I accomplish this? Here is my code:
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Creating a "testimonials" form in ExpressionEngine, no clue where to start
Creating a "testimonials" form in ExpressionEngine, NO CLUE WHERE TO START
We're using ExpressionEngine v.2.2.0, just FYI.
The boss wants me to create a textfield form (served by EE) that will ...
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Embed Variables not parsing in time in embed placed inside of Playa Parents tag
I’m currently trying to add a safecracker form that either creates a new entry or edits the existing one depending on whether or not the CURRENT_USER has made one or not. Part of this also requires I ...
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trying to establish "current" class on sidebar link
I have an "About Us" section of my website. I am trying to attach current classes based upon the url. When you click on the about us section of the website, it takes you to a channel entry whose ...
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Is this the most efficient way to code this?
I have a specific entry I want to display when a user navigates to that particular section of the website. To clarify, I have an "about us" section of a church website where, when the user clicks on "...
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Can't programmatically log member in
Can someone explain to me why I am not capable of forcing a new ExpressionEngine session to be generated for a specific user? I've been following this link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...
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Safecracker Registration: how to edit Channel entry after registration?
After a member is registered via Safecracker Registration, how do I allow the member to update his/her Channel entry?
Safecracker Registration has the option edit_member="yes", so I created a ...
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Lots of channels with small number of fields or one channel with lots of fields - efficient?
I am about to extend my site quite extensively. At the moment I have a new channel and a walks channel (I list dog walks!)
I am opening up to creating a directory of dog services and amenities, ...
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Should I use a channel entry tag pair for quotes?
I have small modules in the sidebar on various pages throughout my site. I'm including different quotes for different pages in the sidebar modules. Originally I hard coded them into the template, ...
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how can I conditionally display image if one is attached to channel entry
I have an image that is an optional channel field, and I've got it hard coded into the template. If someone doesn't attach an image, there is an empty image box on the page for that entry. How can I ...
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has anyone used the Hop Inject plug-in?
Looking for a way to "inject" images into channel entries without having the content administrator trying to mess with html. I found hop inject on devot-ee, and I'm wondering if anyone has used it or ...
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How to filter relationship field options?
Assume two channels: Channel A and Channel B.
Say that Channel A has a relationship field type that points to Channel B. When a Member is making an entry in Channel A, is there any way to limit the ...
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linking a custom field to any entry of your website
Is there a way of linking a custom field to any entry of your website. I've found this add on http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/entry-layout but it's not compatible with matrix. Thanks Geoff
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Can I get Channel Entry Loop counts by channel?
I have a sort of odd need and I'm not exactly sure how to solve it so I'm coming here for help. I have a channel entries loop that displays all the latest posts for our site with pagination on our ...
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Building a set of list items using Stash. Not working as expected
A while back I built a simple image slider that used "featured" entries from an EE channel. This all works great but did mean that I had to run 2 {exp:entries} tag pairs - the first to get the big ...
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Any ideas on how to link members to entries?
I'm planning a new site that will have a list of entries and a database of members (nothing unusual there I hear you say).
What I'm trying to work out is how to allow a member to express interest in ...
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conditional markup display
I've got a CSS module that I only want to display on the page if there are entries in the channel.
{exp:channel:entries channel="staff" dynamic="no" limit="6" orderby="random" {...
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Channel Entries: DISTINCT and COUNT
Given Channel entries, is there a way to get a list of unique entries in a text field and how many times that entry exist? For example, say the Channel contains the field first_name (FT is text) and ...
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Channel Entry - series of "connected" drop down fields?
I need to create a Channel wherein it will have a series of drop down fields. When a user selects a value in the first drop down, the next drop down goes from a disabled state to an enabled state and ...
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How to search Matrix?
Say I have a Matrix that has the following fields:
Name
Age
Gender
How would I find Channel entries like:
the Channel entry's Age is between 20 and 25
the Channel entry's Age is between 20 and 25 ...
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Channel entry not displaying
RE: How to display Channel entry page?
The accepted solution doesn't seem to work for me. My "products/index" template has something like this:
{exp:channel:entries channel="products" limit="10" ...
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Why would my template not show when channel entry limit parameter is set higher than 1 with Playa parent tag is within?
I have two channels; A and B.
Channel B has a Playa field that relates that entry to entries from Channel A.
In my template, I am wanting to show all the entries from Channel A and display the title ...
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Channel entry details - what's the template group/template?
I have a template the loops over the Channel entries and displays some basic information about each entry. I'd like to have each item link to more details about that particular entry. It seems that I ...
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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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Pagination not working for structure pages
I have my pages setup in Structure in a channel called Products (screenshot).
I'm viewing the listing of products at a URL that looks like:
domain.com/nl/rental-shop/producten/
If I click 'next page'...
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How to display Channel entry page?
When looping through Channel entries, is there a way to provide users with a link they can click on that will take them to that specific Channel entry? I seem to recall seeing some "url" variable ...
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