Reply To: parent category in forms

04/05/2016 at 12:16 pm #371734
Steven Zahm
Keymaster

@ dominic

re: I have tried various shortcodes but nothing seems to affect the category search.

How specifically do you want it affected? If this is all you mean; “I would like only category 47 and its children to appear in the dropdown. is this possible?” Change the shortcode to this:

[connections category=47 exclude_category='4' parent_category='47' template='circled' enable_category_select=true .....more stuff...]

You may or maynot need to remove the exclude_category='4' option. That really depends on what you are doing with it.

Also, make sure all plugins are up to date, Connections, Form and Gridder.

re: Also is there a way for the category select to say select a category instead of being blank?

This is what happens by default. If it is not, then there is very like a fatal JavaScript error being caused by another plugin or the theme. To see if this is the case. Load the page in Chrome, hit the F12 key and then click the Console tab. All page errors will be listed there.