[Steven Zahm]

@ Celia

I took a look at your directory page. I suspect that you shortcode includes the category shortcode option. Is that correct? If so, when you search with a location, you are overriding the category shortcode option with the selected location category ID. So search for igor will only return a result when igor is within the selected category. To have igor display as a result without selecting a category which he has been assigned to you need to remove the category shortcode option. There is second, more complex solution. See this tutorial on how to override the category shortcode option when doing a keyword search for the details.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ William

Yes, the spreadsheet, so I can see the column and equation you made. The code is found in the ../wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/export/class.csv-export-batch-all.php file.

The column config for the export is set up in the initConfig() method. The logic for the options breakout is in the exportBreakoutOptionsCell() method.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kate

Can you share a link to your directory page? What browsers are you using on the computers. Are they all using the same browser? If they are not the same is the issue only occurring in one browser. If they are all the same browser, are all the browsers page zoom set at 100%. bAsically what I am asking is everything the same on all computers with the software? If there are differences is there anything that is common on the ones causing the double spacing vs the the other where the spacing is correct? Right now, I not confident this is an issue with Connections, but an issue with the computers software. If you log in to the forum, using the username/password for your account you created when you made your purchase you will be able to attached screenshots. Maybe those will help determine the issue.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Holly

Can you share a link to your test directory so I can take a look?

[Steven Zahm]

@ antonella

For payments, I always suggest using a membership plugin like Restrict Content Pro. They specialize in managing membership payments/levels/renewals and such. I do not plan on adding such functionality to Connections because it is far better for you to be a to better monetize your site with the many options available using a membership plugin vs. being locked into just using a directory listing as a membership perk.

So you could use Form and Link but only access given when with a valid membership. There is no specific integration with Connections and a membership plugin. You would just “lock” the pages to members only.

Now, they is no way in Connections to give the user the ability to have more than one entry. It is one user to one entry.

Hope that answers your question thoroughly!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mary

At one point I did have Connections “clear” the page before displaying the entry detail however due to the popularity of visual page builders I had to remove that functionality because those page builders use shortcodes in the page content, so removing them meant removing the page structure.

Now, if you need a directory “intro” you can achieve this with a two page setup. Here’s how:

• Create a new page named “business”. On this page add this shortcode: [connections force_home=true].
  • Put no other content on this page.
  • Save the page.
  • Take note of the page ID assigned to the page by WordPress. You will find it in the URL of the browser’s address bar.
• On you existing directory page. add this to the existing shortcode, home_id=x where x is the page id of the new “business” page you just created.
• Now, when links are clicked on the directory page, they will resolve to the new business page.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ William

I’m visual… could you send me a sample? They can be zipped up and then added as an attachment.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jake

Oh, forgot… then you would have to update custom template you created to display the lists and turn those lists into a list of permalinks.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jake

Apologies for the delay in my reply. I’ve been running a backlog all week due to illness. No excuse but it is the reason.

There is no way to do this “out of the box” in Connections because this require a whole set of custom rewrite rules to be registered with WordPress so WordPress will know what to do with such links. And then something would have to be done to allow Connections to query the entries assigned with the requested meta.

The correct hook for the rewrite rules is cn_page_rewrite_rule-view found in the class.rewrite.php file.

You’ll also need to register the expertise and vertical with WordPress using the query_vars filter.

The you can hook into the cn_list_atts found in the class.shortcode-connections.php file. YOu would want to read the registered query vars for you meta and add the to the meta_query array key as an array.

Not easy, but doable, I think.

Not sure if this helps… hope it does, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ William

Yeah, sorry, there is not a way to link families together in a CSV file because the CSV file is a “flat” file. If you have an idea or suggestion on how exactly I could improve the export to accommodate this, I’ll definitely take it.

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