Questions tagged [entry]

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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Pages not showing data

I wanted to make a new page "Career Fair" so copied "Admissions" a channel and template, rename it off course. On "Career Fair" I have checked to admission fields. After ...
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inserting links to publish

When I try to insert a link under "Publish" on my website, the square appears for me to fill in the https info, but the square is empty.
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Upload Image/File Modal Empty, Potential JS Error in index.php?

Sorry for another potentially simple question. I've successfully managed to upgrade to EE 5.3.2, and everything seems to be working 99% correctly. Only two issues needed to be corrected. The first was ...
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Is this possible? ee5 / tab / custom view

Before i dive in too deep, i just wanted to ask the community here if what i'm trying to achieve is possible. Essentially, i want to create a tab on the entry PUBLISH page let's call it Extra. Then i ...
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Getting Channel Entry Data With AJAX

EE 5.2.2 I am making an app that lists channel entries in a template. Some of the data in these entries could be very substantial so I would like to only call that data if/when the user chooses. The ...
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How to get submitted form to rendered format to email?

Let's say I have a form from channel "contact_us" and it is submitted through template "index/contactus". How can I use the "channel_form_submit_entry_end" hook to collect the data and template put it ...
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Implement custom content on channel entries like Wordpress Shortcodes

We would like to add blocks of HTML that we have styled in channels. Similar to the functionality of a Wordpress shortcode. So if we need for example a stylized quote that has predefined html and ...
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Channel Entry Form not found

I've picked up some work on a site (EEv2.8.1) which requires a channel entry form so users can publish their own channel entries. It's been a long, long time since I have worked with this area of a ...
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Only display one entry per day?

I'm trying to make a very simple date based entry page. But I'm just wondering if there's a way to only display one entry per date. So if there's 5 entries for one day and 10 for another, the page ...
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categories inside the Edit Entry publish tab?

It is possible to display categories inside the Edit Entry publish tab with EE3, to facilitate the use of publishing ? Does an add-on exist to display the categories on this first tab ?
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Solspace Calendar error: "Column 'repeat_weeks' cannot be null"

EE 2.11.8, Solspace Calendar 1.8.14 (vastly out of date, I know, I know... old client site. * le sigh * ) I'm trying to post a new Calendar Event entry. When I set it to not repeat, or to repeat ...
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Use onClick to update the status of an entry

I have a simple page that is displaying entries and statuses from the database. I would like to be able to click a link (i.e. remove entry) and have that onClick event set the entry status to removed. ...
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display the latest entry only that meets criteria

How do i display the latest entry only that meets the criteria? Overview: I have a channel called new. Within that channel there are two fields. File_upload = where you can upload a file. Pull ...
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Diversity within Blog Entries

I was looking at this website: https://mobirise.com/bootstrap-template/blog.html It's a blog page that has interesting diversity on each blog entry. I'm wondering how I can build something similar in ...
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Images Not Saving in Channel Entry

Bit of a weird problem. We are able to upload images successfully via the basic publish entry form, but if an edit is made to the entry (even if it's just a text edit), the image disappears from the ...
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Conditional Error when saving an entry in the CP cause by status

I'm experiencing a confusing problem that I've narrowed down to a custom status. I have a status for a channel with the following options: Open Close Spec Sold I can save an entry in this channel ...
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Single entry with multiples pages

I search how to have a entry with multiple pages if the product created has multiples colors. Indeed, i work on a product website and my client want to have the possibility to define a product in ...
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Magnific popup retrieving entry problem

I have a page that uses Magnific Popup to show popups (http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/documentation.html). This popup it being loaded with the following peace of Javascript: $('.popoup-...
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Entry linking meta data

Just wondering if it is possible to show the {author}, {entry_date} and {comment_total} in the Prev/Next entry links? Here is what I have currently for the Next entry link, but only the {title} field ...
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Template won't embed on one entry page but fine on everything else

I'm trying to add my embedded contact form template to one page for a blog entry. I've never had an issue with this template or embedding it until now. Here is my code. {embed="inc/html_header" ...
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Show date listing from today onward

How can I make a list which show the date from today to following 10 days? Like Thu, June 25, 2015 Fri, June 26, 2015 Sat, June 27, 2015 Sun, June 28, 2015 Mon, June 29, 2015 And then make entry list ...
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Entry Layout Plugin issue with Stucture

In a channel, I've removed the Structure tab, but there's no way to get it back. Or at least, I'm missing it. The tab is gone, but all fields that were in it too and they're not in the Fields list. ...
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Channel displaying on more than one page

I've recently inherited a EE site. I'm a Joomla kid but that doesn't matter. The owner of this website has multiple channels (I guess that's what they're called, such as Residential, Commercial, etc)...
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member control panel channel entry field relationship permissions

I am trying to give members access to the control panel so that they can publish edit their own entries. Say I have Channel A and Channel B. It is easy to setup EE so that each member can only edit ...
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Assign Entry to Member

As admin, I assigned a Member entry to myself, but after completing that action I was unable to re-assign that entry back to the member. In fact the member's screenname doesn't even show up in the ...
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Channel entry not showing up on homepage

For some reason my channel entry stopped working on homepage (index.html) template. I am calling the same channel entries in the header and footer and I am completely stumped as to why it stopped ...
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Prev/next entry linking when using Transcribe

I'm using Transcribe and Structure to build multi-lingual sites. I have come across an issue using the Prev and Next entry tags. I want users to be able to go to the next/prev blog posts. If I ...
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Field Uniqueness

I am working on a Web App that a teacher assigns a passphrase to a channel entry and students can sign in by searching for the phrase (not super secure I know, but it works for my application). My ...
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Relate EE Entries with Location (Region/City/Place)

What is best way to relate EE Entries with location (Region/City/Place) example 1. Entry of Simba National Park, 2. Then i choose park category (Game Park, Beach Park, Cultural Park, Mountain Park) ...
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Channel Entry API and Grid field

I'm looking for a way to handle a grid field with the channel entry API. Documentation has nothing, and could barely find anything else online about except for this: Inserting a new Grid row using ...
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Last edited by tag?

I have a report area on an EE site that shows specifics about entries in a channel, and was wondering if there was a way to show who edited that entry last? I am using the {edit_date format="%m-%d-%Y} ...
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How to get category last child url for an entry

I'm trying to use GWcode Categories to output category last child url for an entry. Code looks like: {exp:channel:entries channel="products" category="{segment_2_category_id}" orderby="title" ...
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Security issues with putting member id in URI segments?

I'm using Safecracker Registration so that I can leverage Channels for my member data. I want to create pages that display member data in the frontend. Is there a security issue with using member ids (...
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NavEE dropdown selector

Is there anything that already exists that allows an author to select a navigation that was built in NavEE? In other words, if I have multiple navigational elements in NavEE and want to give the ...
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Output heading only once in channel entry

I am trying to output the heading "Related Articles" only once before all the blog submissions. The way I have it coded below, it's outputting heading in every entry. I've put it in multiple places ...
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Playa // Entries // Category Archive?

So I have several Channel Data that I'm pulling into a Product page: Accessories, Options, Features, etc... For Accessories I have all of the associated products pulled in, but now I want to pull in ...
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HTML entities in Title field

I can't figure out where expression engine is changing my title to html entities. This is specifically for the required title field Text like: "Test á Character" is being stored as "Test á...
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setting stash snippet as author_id does not parse

I try to store member_id/author_id for session during visit of other users. Goal: show content of a certain user without showing the id in a URL. My testing template has the author_id in segment_2. I ...
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Get category_id of entry before loop?

I want to list out all posts based on the category_id of the current entry. But how can I get the category_id before the loop? Basically, what I could do is this: {exp:channel:entries channel"...
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Delete every entry in Channel

I want to delete all data in one channel. And I found that, the best way to delete all entry in channel is delete this channel and re-create it follow this article: What is the best way to delete ...
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Future dating entries not displaying when current

Any future-dated entries are not displaying for me once the entry date is current. The exception is if I touch any entry in the channel (which is nice that it busts the cache, but it rather defeats ...
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Freeform edit entry order issue

I know this issue has been mentioned before, but I can't find a solution to the problem anywhere. I don't understand why when you edit a a form submission, the fields don't appear in the order they ...
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Editing an Entry does not update

I'm trying to edit an entry and the page seems to simply refresh, not displaying the usual submitted page that shows made changes etc. I cannot figure out what could be causing this. Hopefully the ...
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Update channel entry

I'm new to EE. Actually I have some problem updating a entry. This is my code: ee()->load->library('api'); $data_item = array( 'stock' => '4' ); ee()->api->instantiate('...
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How to hide following part if age and cost not have any value?

i am using following code for display about section i want to hide above section from left navigation when age and cost does not have any value please guide me thank you <div class="filter-...
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Why Php variable repeats 1 entry?

{exp:cartthrob:order_items order_id="1937" variable_prefix="items_"} $titlu_carte = '{items_title} '; $gestiune_id = '{product_sku} '; $cantitate_carte = '{items_quantity}'; $...
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EE 2.7.0: Saving a new channel entry brings error "undefined index"

Whenever I save new entry I get the following error message. But the entry is saved. I can open the entry and etdit it. When I save the edited version no error occurs. What does this error message ...
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entry submission error logged in as client user - "You are not authorized to perform this action"

Anyone seen this issue? I'm logged in as the client who is under the member's group (I believe I have set all the required permissions, can't see anything obvious that would restrict this). When I ...
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Using playa to get entries

one called "crops" one is named "products". Crops linked to products, through a playa field for the products channel. At the moment my tag produces a list of crops but many are repeated. When ...
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Can I escape "automatically turn URLs/Emails into links"?

I would like this option for the "body" field of an entry, but for another field where I want to take a web address and eventually generate a button link, I don't want it encoded, or of course the ...
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