[Vijay]

Hello,
How can I make the “Department” field private so it does not display when “allow_public_override=’true'” is set in the page?
Thanks
VJ

[Steven Zahm]

@ Vijay

re: “allow_public_override=’true’” is set in the page

In nearly all cases I highly recommend not using the allow_public_override shortcode option. It is virtually never needed.

re: How can I make the “Department” field private

This fields can not be made private. The only thing that can be done is that the template can be be edited to the field is only rendered for logged in users.

Hope this helps!

[Vijay]

Thanks Steven.

Can you provide details of where the template can be edited to make these only render for logged in users?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Vijay

I highly suggest reading the tutorial on how to make upgrade safe template override files.

The files you want to edit will depend on the template you wish to edit.

The included core templates can be found in this folder:

../wp-content/plugins/connections/templates/{template-folder}/

Hope this helps!

[Vijay]

Thanks Setevn,
Yes I know how to make changes and also went through your link. I can see the cmap.php and also card.php I looked through the code, but want to pinpoint to where exactly the “Private” filter is applied so I can add the ‘Department” field there. Can you please pinpoint?
Thanks

[Steven Zahm]

@ Vijay

There is no private filter for the department field. Just wrap the $entry->getOrgUnitBlock() block of code in an if statement that checks is a user is logged in within the card.php and card-single.php files.

[Vijay]

Thanks. One more thing. How do I check if the user is logged in? Is there a code snippet or tag I can look at in card.php? I see this:
if ( $atts[‘show_org’] || $atts[‘show_dept’] ) {
$entry->getOrgUnitBlock(

but I see the same for Address, email etc. too. So couldn’t figure what is the IF condition to see if the user is logged in.
Thanks for your continued help.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Vijay

re: How do I check if the user is logged in?

It is a core WordPress function is_user_logged_in()

re: Is there a code snippet or tag I can look at in card.php?

Change if ( $atts['show_org'] || $atts['show_dept'] ) { to if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {

Now only logged in users will see the org/department field.

Good luck.

[Vijay]

Thanks so much Steven. This seemed to work very nicely.
After doing some more testing I’ll close this forum issue.
Your help is Appreciated.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Vijay

Great to hear!

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