[Steven Zahm]

@ Suzi

No, not your theme. Which Connections template? Found on the Connections : Templates admin page. Can you please share a link to the directory page?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Cre8vMom

Hmmm. I added a test entry (unlisted) with an anniversary. Now second date was added. So, I edited the entry making just a minor change. Again no second date added after making the edit. So I edited again changing the date. No second date was added.

So… new entries seems to be fine. Or maybe not. I found an entry just added days again and it has three anniversary dates…

Can you give me the correct dates for Emeanuel A. and Tara A. I’d like to edit them to to see what happens.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Cre8vMom

Ok, I’m logged into both the WP admin and FTP. I’m taking a look now. I’ll let you know what I discover.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Cre8vMom

I tried both logins you’ve supplied, I can not seem to login into either WP or FTP. Could you please verify both login. Thanks!

ps. I’ll need both to assist in debugging.

[Steven Zahm]

@ plzit

re: Is it normal for a second anniversary date to be added after we enter the first? If so, then why is the date one day behind where it’s supposed to be?

Anniversaries and Birthdays are saved in two locations, one instance is an old legacy location which did not save the year which was intentional at the time because Connections originated as a need for a church directory where years where not wanted. Connections has evolved substantially since then and the data moved to their own table which could save years as well as support arbitrary date “types”.

The second is to be filtered out, but in your case it is not because it is being saved with an incorrect day. The only known cause of this is if the server and mysql clocks do not match or set to different conflicting time zones. When the clocks are correct, the only other known issue to cause this is when the user permissions have been corrupted by a third party plugin. But since the dates do not match I suspect the former over the latter. But since I can not get access, there is really no way for me to know for sure if it is either issue or something new.

re: A few other people have had this exact same issue. Were you able to find a fix that you can share?

Right now, they are only three known to be having this issue. In fact, the clocks issue I mentioned in my previous answer. Even that has been addressed long ago because there is a check for the times and an offset applied to the time if needed to help ensure the dates match.

The issue, or rather feature, of mysql and PHP is that they automagically adjust times to the set time zone of the server which of course does not necessarily need to match (but should).

I wish I could help further but without being able to debug there is no solution I am able to offer as I can not duplicate it. Perhaps if I can get access to another user which’s site which is having the issue I will have a working solution I can share.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

re: Since I am not that familiar with arrays your answer does not help as I hoped it will.

Do this instead so you do not have to deal with arrays or manually accessing the database at all:

// Get the entry you wish to modify.
$data    = Connections_Directory()->retrieve->entry( 42409 );

// Setup the entry.
$entry   = new cnEntry( $data );

// Get the address, by id, that you wish to change the district field.
$address = $entry->addresses->get( 38437 );

// Set the new value for the district field.
$address->setDistrict( 'new' );

// Update the address in the entry with the modified address.
$entry->addresses->update( 38437, $address );

// Save the changes back to the database.
$entry->update();

• Change 42409 to the entry you wish to update.
• Change 38437 to the address id you wish to update the district.

Does that help?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Americas Alliance

re: Instead of showing all the info filled in connections, it used to appear only the name and country of the organization as well as a seal wich was uploded from the wp media as a custom field.

It does sound like the template may have been customized. Hard to say. Perhaps you have a screenshot of how it appeared before updating?

Do you happen to have a somewhat recent backup of your site? If you personally (or your team) do not, your host will likely have a few (but likely they will only be recent backups). You could ask them for a file dump of that backup so you can restore just the template files.

Can you share a link to the directory page please?

re: is there a way I can customize the template and enable custom fields to be displayed?

Sure, the same way as before, this has not changed. I can not really give any specific advice since I do not know the changes that were made. But, here’s a link to the tutorial on how to add a custom text field. My best guess they had to use that as a base for the changes. Since the changes were lost after an update, I’m guessing they did not use custom template override files. This allows you to make changes to the template in an update safe way (at least if there are no breaking changes in the core Connections plugin).

I hope this is of some help!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Louis

Sorry, but I am not quite understanding the issue. Could you please share a link to your directory so I can take a look?

Also, please disable the Single Entry Template option. In nearly all cases this option is not desired to be enabled.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Suzi

Which template are you using?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Beverly

re: Do you have a page that explains how to find the theme’s custom css area and then how to add that text?

Sorry, but because every theme is different you’ll have to refer to your theme’s documentation where their custom CSS area is. If you theme does not have one, you could use a plugin like JP Custom CSS. As for how to add the CSS text, you could type it or copy paste it into the CSS field. I recommend copy/pasting to eliminate chance of typos.

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