[Diane Lindquist]

I realize the “QuickTip: Show No Entries Until User Performs a Search” is not supported, but I did encounter an issue when using it with cMap. When enabled, the quicktip seems to wipe out the cMap shortcodes.

Here is my connection entry:

[cn_widget id="cnw_search-4"][connections template="cmap" category=291 enable_search='FALSE' enable_category_by_root_parent='TRUE' str_work_phone="Phone" str_work_addr="" str_select="Select Specialty Type" str_select_all="Show All Specialties" str_category_label="Specialty: "]

When “Suppress Results” is not checked the top of my page looks the first screen shot, Screenshot-2018-4-9_1.

When “Suppress Results” is checked: Screenshot-2018-4-9_2.

Thanks.

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[Steven Zahm]

@ Diane

It is not that the shortcodes are “wiped out”. When no results are displayed the cMap search and category drop down are not being used at all. What you’ll need to do is edit the plugin you downloaded from the tutorial to change the category drop down default text and remove the keyword search field.

To remove the keyword search, you would delete this line:

$search    = cnTemplatePart::search( $atts );

And change this line from:

$replace = $formOpen . $category . $search . $formClose;

to this:

$replace = $formOpen . $category . $formClose;

You might get away with not having to edit the default text for the category select by adding the following to the [connections] shortcode:

default="Select Specialty Type" select_all="Show All Specialties"

You would leave all you existing options as is, add these to the existing shortcode.

Hope this helps!

[Diane Lindquist]

Steve, thanks, it worked except for the category focus, meaning the drop down lists all categories not just the category=291. Do I have to further modify the plugin? Thanks again.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Diane

If I understand correctly, add parent_id=291 to the shortcode as well.

[Diane Lindquist]

That was the ticket. Thank you!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Diane

Great to hear!

The reason for the duplication of the shortcode values is because the cMap shortcodes actually map to these new shortcode options. You have to use these because that mapping is not being done because the template is not being used when now search is being performed.

What I should do is update the search plugin to do the mapping of those values that way they should just work as expected. I’ll try to set some time aside today to update it.

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