[CRAIG HALLER]

You can tell @Melanie (an hour ago she posted) to look at my site
(if you don’t care that I am using you with the Map plugin).
She is welcome to contact me.

RE: You have a way to change the zip placeholder, but not that label.
Do I have another option?

Hmmm… not sure I follow. There are no labels. Can you attach a
screenshot showing what you mean?

Sorry, the “that label” refers to “Radius” … all set on that issue.

RE: When someone comes to the site I have the multi-category-search
showing and [connections]. I would like there to be only one
organization showing (I have a category of “Sample” with one entry)
sort of as a default. I can put a screen shot of it under your
shortcode as a workaround but that’s not ideal. Suggestion?

You could try using this shortcode:

[connections category=X]

I tried various permutations. Since I use the multi category search I believe
I need to disabable category select and enable search (see commented out line
which is what I have been using). Tied your suggestion, still not working.
I cleared the cache (in WP and my browser) and removed my cache plugin.

<!-- wp:html -->

[cn_multi_category_search category="15||Choose an organization type|

Search Results: %s” enable_zipcode=true radius_options=”5:5 Miles|10:10 Miles|15:15 Miles|20:20 Miles|30:30 Miles|45:45 Miles” placeholder_zip=”Your zipcode”]

<!-- [connections enable_category_select='FALSE' enable_search='FALSE' category="Sample"]-->

[connections category="sample"]

<!-- /wp:html -->

I will try the snippet you sent a little later today.

As for Link, I may remove the email address from additional entries for the same person.
Link will set them up with one, and I can then manually add the others to that person,
correct?

Great support!

[CRAIG HALLER]

And connections-initial-search-results is not working for me. It is installed and the box is checked to suppress results.

[CRAIG HALLER]

We are sort of on the same page.

Last week I followed this:
https://connections-pro.com/quicktip-custom-field-adding-a-text-field/

and added a text field and then two checkbox fields. I did not use the “Custom Fields” in the back end since they were not mentioned in the article.

Now today I added a Custom Field in the back end.

I assume these are all the same things, handled the same way.

I will make sure I register and can import today’s field as well, and with that I will try to leave you alone today. I think I have a good handle on the system at this point.

But then, ya never know …

[CRAIG HALLER]

If I were to be offended by light hearted tongue in cheek (which I easily recognize) I would be in great trouble! Anything short of outright F-bombs is fine! :)

Ok, that seems to be working, the custom meta does it. I am guessing that I need to do a snippet like I did for my other textbox to be able to import the value from a csv file but I don’t have to register it?

Do I just use these two routines?

// Register the custom fields CSV Import mapping options and processing callback.
add_filter( 'cncsv_map_import_fields', 'cncsv_header_name' );
add_action( 'cncsv_import_fields', 'cncsv_process_import', 10, 3 );
 
function cncsv_header_name( $fields ) {
    // The field_id should match exactly the field id used when registering the custom field.
    $fields['schl_field_id_1'] = 'Grades';
    return $fields;
}

function cncsv_process_import( $id, $row, $entry ) {
    // The field_id should match exactly the field id used when registering the 
              custom field.
    $data = $entry->arrayPull( $row, 'schl_field_id_1', '' );
        $data = cnFormatting::maybeJSONdecode( stripslashes( $data ) );
    cnEntry_Action::meta(
        'update',
        $id,
        array(
            array(
                'key'   => 'schl_field_id_1', // 
                'value' => $data
            ),
        )
    );
}

Where do I send the Starbucks card?

[CRAIG HALLER]

I guess I am going to push the limits of that great support … :)

I want to add a code number I have for each school and use that if I can in the Connections_Directory()->retrieve->entries call. I don’t want it typically seen so I thought of putting it in an IM set for unlisted.

I see it in a var_dump of an entry:

[“im”]=> string(165) “a:1:{i:0;a:7:{s:2:”id”;s:8:”12345678″;
s:4:”type”;s:3:”aim”;s:4:”name”;
s:3:”AIM”;s:10:”visibility”;
s:8:”unlisted”;s:5:”order”;i:0;s:9:”preferred”;b:0;s:3:”uid”;i:1;}}”

yet

$im =  $entry->getIm();

returns

array(0) { }

Is there a way I can do this? Other suggestions? Just need that code, 12345678 for example, to be not displayed but used to search for a specific entry. Should I be using a custom field?

Also, how do I access the textbox and checkboxes I added?

Thank you.

[CRAIG HALLER]

Great support … Thank you.

-Craig

[CRAIG HALLER]

I will work with that and see how it goes, THANKS.

Off hand, is there a place in your code where I can see you using this so I can glean a few hints if needed?

[CRAIG HALLER]

In another part of the site I have the need to use some of the information in “your” database. For instance, I want to display just the school name and phone number. I would like to be able to retrieve just that information, again only having the school name.

Right now, I made a shortcode that includes:

$data = do_shortcode([connections organization='". $org_to_show . "']);

$data contains all the information you display about the organization and all the header and footer stuff for rendering the page.

If I want the phone number I search $data for the first part of this:

< span class="phone-name">Phone< /span>< span class="cn-separator">:< /span> < a class="value" href="tel:508-854-8400" value="5088548400">508-854-8400< /a>

and can then extract just the number. I can do this for the address, etc. Then my shortcode can put out just the info I need in the format I need without all the overhead of the header, footer, etc.

So I am looking for a way to get all the strings in the database for a particular organization in a simpler way.

Live example: I am considering having people search by both your radius search and by a full map with markers. If you look at this page and click on the Haller Academy marker (by the water, over Boston), you will see a popup. It takes a while to populate with “your” data because I am dynamically creating a page with your connections shortcode and then bringing that in as an iframe. It is cool, but slow. I would rather just write out the html myself.

https://schoolorg.directory/map-testing/

Yes, I know I am being a pain in the butt, and I apologize. You have a great system and I may be pushing it a bit!

THANK YOU

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[CRAIG HALLER]

My organizations are all unique, over 1,000 schools in my state. I am loading the database from an excel file that has all the information for basic entries (organization name, phone, etc.). There are places on the site where I want to display information about the school and all I have is the organization name and I need to do this dynamically, I don’t know the id.

https://schoolorg.directory/

Does that make sense?

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[CRAIG HALLER]

I thought of that but was not clear on how to then change the template to output the last name , department (so it would look like “Craig Haller, Director”
I might just have it that way where the title is input into the last name field.

You can see my results here: https://schoolorg.directory/

I am going to work on allowing people to claim their listing (my database is about 1100 entries) and hopefully I can show that their title should be in the last name field.

Thank you for your great support.

Have you thought of a forum for users to put up modifications or things they think others can use? I am playing with tooltips in the entry for instance and would share that.

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