Different forms for different categories

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  • 12/08/2015 at 3:01 pm #357327
    Drew Kroft
    Participant

    Essentially what I’m looking to do is get two separate categories to have their own pages and forms. Getting each page to show up correctly is no problem with the shortcodes, but I can’t seem to figure out how to get a different form for each category.

    12/08/2015 at 3:09 pm #357329
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Drew

    Sorry, but there is really no way to do this short of editing the core PHP files for Form.

    12/08/2015 at 3:18 pm #357330
    Drew Kroft
    Participant

    I’m not sure if this makes a difference, but I don’t really need a whole different form. I just need each page to only show the sub-categories for each main category in the drop down menu. This would also require a separate URL for each.

    12/08/2015 at 4:35 pm #357334
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Drew

    Sorry, but that would still require making changes to the PHP files for Form. I took a look at my code and I was able to make the necessary changes easier than I thought. Using the shortcode you would define the category parent to show like this:

    [connections_form parent_category='n']

    n would be the parent category ID of the children that should be displayed as options. Does that should like it would work for you?

    12/08/2015 at 11:03 pm #357341
    Drew Kroft
    Participant

    Setting a value for parent_category doesn’t seem to do anything for me. Does this require some work in the PHP to get it to function properly? It sounds like this is the functionality I’m looking for though.

    Either way, I wanted to say that I took over on a project that was previously using a different plugin. I replaced it with Connections and Connections has proven to be significantly better in every aspect. Also, I very much appreciate how active you are in the forums, and how quickly you responded.

    Thanks!

    12/09/2015 at 10:38 am #357400
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Drew

    re: Setting a value for parent_category doesn’t seem to do anything for me.

    Right, it wouldn’t. Sorry I was not more clear… I added this option yesterday in response to your question.

    re: It sounds like this is the functionality I’m looking for though.

    I can email you a copy of Form which has this new option if you would like to test it out. Let me know.

    12/09/2015 at 1:47 pm #357420
    Drew Kroft
    Participant

    If you could send it that would be great! Thanks.

    12/11/2015 at 11:24 am #357684
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Drew

    I sent the email with the beta attached. Let me know if you do not receive it. I’m also interested in any feedback you may have on it. Thanks!

    12/21/2015 at 7:03 pm #358863
    Drew Kroft
    Participant

    I got the beta and installed it with no problems. The feature works exactly as I expected it would, thanks! The only feedback I have is, you should work to add this feature to your next release, it’s very handy.

    Maybe a bit more complex, but having more options on what to display or not could improve this even more. Also you could add a feature allowing users to choose to not allow parent categories to be selected, and a shortcode to remove the “Show all categories” option.

    Thanks again for taking the time to add this feature for me. I’m very pleased with the plugin, and the support you offer for it is unparalleled.

    12/22/2015 at 1:40 pm #358949
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Drew

    re: you should work to add this feature to your next release

    Yes, this will be included in the next release.

    re: Also you could add a feature allowing users to choose to not allow parent categories to be selected, and a shortcode to remove the “Show all categories” option.

    Hmmm, the “Show all categories” shouldn’t even be an option. I just fixed that bug. The fix will be in the next update.

    re: having more options on what to display or not could improve this even more.

    I did other shortcode options for categories which are in the beta I gave you. You also have these options; exclude_category, include_category, hide_empty_category, show_category_count.

    You would not use exclude_category and include_category together, one or the other. The include_category option would be use to show only the specified categories. The exclude_category option should allow to exclude specific categories.

    Does this qualify?

    re: you could add a feature allowing users to choose to not allow parent categories to be selected

    I just now added this per your suggestion. Thanks!

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