[George Socha]

Steve,

For the cMap single-entry view (card-single.php), I would like to be able to show only those categories for that entity that are under a root parent (ID=34) instead of all the categories for that entity.

In the list page (card.php) I can show all for that entity categories by using “show_categories=TRUE”. When I do that, I see all categories for that entity in the single-entry view.

Ultimately I want to see the categories only on the single-entry page and not on the list page, but first I need to figure out this step.

Thanks in advance.

George

[Steven Zahm]

@ George

The Connections taxonomy code for categories is very heavily based on the core WordPress code… there’s actually no really easy way of doing this. Basically a custom function would need to be written which would get all the categories for an entry, check each to see if it is an ancestor of category ID:34 and then output the appropriate HTML code. This function should do the trick:

function cn_display_terms_of_parent_term_id( $term_id, $terms ) {

    $found = array();

    foreach ( $terms as $term ) {

        if ( cnTerm::isAncestorOf( $term_id, $term->term_id, 'category' ) ) {

            $found[] = $term->term_id;
        }
    }

    foreach ( $found as $id ) {

        $category = cnTerm::get( $id, 'category' );

        if ( ! is_wp_error( $category ) ) {

            echo esc_html( $category->name );

        } elseif ( is_a( $category, 'WP_Error' ) ) {

            echo $category->get_error_message();
        }

    }

}

You would use it in the card-single.php file like this:

cn_display_terms_of_parent_term_id( 34, $entry->getCategory() );

That should output only the categories that were assigned to an entry with the parent ID of 34.

[George Socha]

Steve,

That worked great. Is there some way for me to sort results – best by the order number that I get by using Connections Custom Category Order?

You can see what I have done so far at http://www.edrm.net/apersee

Thanks,

George

[George Socha]

Here is a better example: http://www.edrm.net/apersee/name/advanced-discovery

[Steven Zahm]

@ George

Do you have Custom Category Order installed and the order defined?

[George Socha]

Yes, I do.

[Steven Zahm]

@ George

Ok, them. The output from $entry->getCategory() which you are using in the above code is ordered to the number you set in the admin. When you flatten out the category hierarchy and depending on the order numbers you used it may not be apparent. To give your advice I would need to know the current order numbers, the desired order and the final code you using in the card-single.php template you used for the out so I can make sure there’s nothing there that would alter the order.

[George Socha]

Steve,

I had forgotten to enter the license number!

I have done that and now the entries appear in alphabetical order. The category numbers are gone, however, so I need to figure out what happened with the numbers.

Here is the current card-single.php code:

<div class="cn-clear" style="display:table;margin: 10px 0;width:100%;">
    <div style="display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle;">
        <?php
        if ( $atts['show_categories'] ) {
            echo '<h4>';
            echo $atts['str_category_label'];
            echo '</h4>';
            cn_display_terms_of_parent_term_id( 35, $entry->getCategory() );
        }
        ?>
    </div>
    <div style="display:table-cell;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;">
        <?php
        if ( $atts['show_last_updated'] ) {

            cnTemplatePart::updated(
                array(
                    'timestamp' => $entry->getUnixTimeStamp(),
                    'style'     => array(
                        'font-variant' => 'small-caps',
                    )
                )
            );
        }
        ?>
    </div>
</div>

[Steven Zahm]

@ George

Ok, so now I’m a little confused. Is it like you want now?

If you do not see the option to edit the order then it sounds like the extension (plugin) is not active. The support license key being input/activated would not affect the ordering functionality, it enables the ability to support in admin updates when I release updates so they do not need manually updated.

[George Socha]

Steve,

First I need to get back where I was. Then I will follow up with what I was trying to do.

Thanks,

George

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