[Kurt Steinbrueck]

Hi,

I asked a question the other day in the Connections WordPress Plugin support about family entry types in submission form. I noticed today that a newer entry that was created does not have the Family option in backend either (earlier entries do). Are family entries supported anymore with the Connections plugin?

The family entry type was an important feature when I installed Connections and purchased the Pro Pack as this directory is, in part, being used for a church member directory. If the Family entry type is no longer supported, do you have a suggestion of how to allow family entries for the directory, some sort of work around process you’ve thought of?

Thanks

Kurt

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kurt

Yes, the Family entry type is still very much supported and is not going away…

I’m not sure what is meant by this:

“I noticed today that a newer entry that was created does not have the Family option in backend either (earlier entries do).”

You have the option of choosing an entry type at the time of creation of the entry. You also have the option of changing the entry type when editing an entry. This has not changed. Could you give further details on this issue?

[Kurt Steinbrueck]

I’m glad to hear it’s still supported. I double checked the situation and see that it’s a little different than I described. I have used the Connections Form upgrade to allow people to create their own entries in the directory. From what I can tell, the form only allows people to choose from Individual or Organization. The Family entry type is not supported by the form. However, I had seen Family as an option when editing my own directory entry when logged in as the site admin. So, I thought that maybe if someone created a directory entry using the Form choosing Individual, they could then edit that entry (what I referred to as the backend in the previous entry) and change the entry type to Family. However, when I created a new test account and tried to do this, I didn’t have the option to select Family either in the Form or later when editing the entry. Individual and Organization are still the only options.

What I just discovered while I was double checking things is that when I’m logged in as the admin for the website, I can edit an entry and then there is an option for a Family listing. So, it seems that having the option to select Family is only there for the admin of the site and not the subscriber level WordPress accounts. Is that correct?

What I’m trying to do is allow the individual member families to create and maintain their own directory entries with as little admin work needing to be done as possible. We have several hundred members and even if the admin only has to spend a few minutes on each entry, when doing it for hundreds of entries it could quickly become weeks of work. I’m trying to avoid that.

Is there a way for me to set this up so the member families will be able create and maintain their own Family listings without the admin needing to do anything?

Thanks.

Kurt

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kurt

Oh, I see… yes, that is true. Only those who have access to the Connections : Manage admin page can change the entry type. The Link admin profile page, that always was limited to only the Individual and Organization entry types.

This can be re-enabled.

First, install the Code Snippets plugin.

Add a new snippet with the following code:

add_filter( 'cn_metabox_publish_atts', 'cn_link_add_family_type_option' );

function cn_link_add_family_type_option( $atts ) {

    $atts['entry_type'] = array(
        __( 'Individual', 'connections' )   => 'individual',
        __( 'Organization', 'connections' ) => 'organization',
        __( 'Family', 'connections' )       => 'family'
        );

    return $atts;
}

Save and activate the new snippet.

The family entry type should now be present on the Link admin profile page.

Hope that helps!

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