[Jennifer]

Hi Steve,

I continue to be amazed by everything that Connections can do. You are amazing!

I saw someone else’s query about adding assigned categories on the entry page and have been successful with adding the following code to an override of the card.php file:

$entry->getCategoryBlock( array( ‘separator’ => ‘, ‘, ‘before’ => ‘‘, ‘after’ => ‘‘ ) );

However, I need to prevent the assigned category from displaying on any entries that are Individuals (OR… these folks are also inside of a category called “Members by Contact” so it’s this specific group that needs to not show the list of assigned categories, if that helps… doesn’t have to necessarily be done by Individuals if easier).

I’d be very grateful for any assistance you can provide with this.

What I’ve tried (may not be the right direction):
I read that Connections supports loading template files based on additional contexts and tried creating a 2nd version of card.php to do this (named “card-category.php” in both the plugin folder and child folder), but am receiving an error with the template shortcode (ERROR: Template card-category not found). I understand it’s not ideal to put anything in the plugin folder, but just did it as a test after striking out.

Thank you in advance, and sorry to be wordy!

Jennifer

PS – Am still struggling with the other 2 custom field issues I emailed you about but I thought this might be easier to tackle first.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jennifer

Use an if statement, like so:

if ( 'individual' !== $entry->getEntryType ) {
    $entry->getCategoryBlock( array( 'separator' => ', ', 'before' => '', 'after' => '' ) );
}

Now the category block will only display if the entry is not an individual.

As for the template, do not use the template shortcode option, Connections will pick up the template automatically if the file exists. One thing to keep in mind, the category template will only be picked up when viewing the related category. Hope that make sense?

[Jennifer]

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[Steven Zahm]

@ Jennifer

Type in my code, sorry:

if ( 'individual' !== $entry->getEntryType() ) {
    $entry->getCategoryBlock( array( 'separator' => ', ', 'before' => '', 'after' => '' ) );
}

I think that should work… I missed typing the parans after getEntryType

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jennifer

Oh, as for the template… it could be as simple as the file naming or where you put it, exactly. Hard to know for sure, not enough details.

[Jennifer]

YOU ARE AMAZING!!! That did the trick beautifully. Thank you SO much!!!

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