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If the following code is specified as the “Default location balloon format” to provide URL links from full location map balloons to individual event location pages, balloon links on those pages link to the pages being viewed. Would it be difficult to provide a conditional flag so those links don’t show on individual event location map balloons?
<strong>#_NAME</strong><br/>#_ADDRESS<br/> #_TOWN<br/><a href=#_LOCATIONPAGEURL>Location Details</a><br/>#_DIRECTIONSThe problem is the rest of the string: I could test for it and replace #_LOCATIONPAGEURL by an empty string, but it would still leave you with the “Location Details” part …
Maybe I need to add a new possibility: #_LOCATIONPAGEURL{“Location details”} that would generate the whole link part …
Is it possible to HIDE if they are empty?
Example:
<h4 class=”widgettitle”>Event Website:</h4>
If there is no {eventsite} I’d like to hide the entire <H4 class> to save
vertical real estate.
Possible?
Kinda impossible: there’s no relation at all between the attribute and the surrounding html (and each person will do it differently …). I would suggest to use a default value then, e.g.
#_ATT{eventsite}{'No site given'}It’s not exactly what you want but better than nothing …
And maybe something to try (haven’t done so myself yet): try entering your html as one value in the attribute description. I’ll make a multiline field of it, if it works 🙂
I’ll try but that would require the admin to enter the HTML into the attribute…which will be a nightmare.
Please consider setting up conditionals…
Like..
If #_ATT{eventsite} is empty, show X.
If it isn’t, show Y.
Simple If Elses would be awesome and powerful!
What about allowing separate location balloon format specifications for the two map applications? That seems easier and more flexible in use than making part of a single default format conditional.
Why are conditionals hard to code up?
Because I don’t see anybody else offer me the code 🙂
But I found a nice workaround for conditionals, still needs to be tested more but this is the idea: in the formatting you can use other shortcodes, so I use the power of enclosing shortcodes wordpress provides to do the following:
[events_if tag='_ATT{eventsite}'] show my html stuff with #_ATT{eventsite} [/events_if]I still need to refine it, and I’ll add the possibility to test for a value as well:
[events_if tag='_ATT{color}' value='red'] show my html stuff with #_ATT{color} [/events_if]BUT: it will only work for placeholders you actually USE in that same format string. For the moment I can get it to work for normal placeholders, next thing up: the attribute placeholders and the time placeholders. And then also for the location placeholders of course.
So you see: it takes a lot of work
Example for default single event format could be (don’t mind the html, output will be ugly):
<p>#j, #M #Y - #H:#i</p><p>#_NOTES</p>#_LOCATIONPAGEURL
[events_if tag='_ATT{color}' value='red'] color: #_ATT{color} [/events_if]
[events_if tag='_ATT{price}'] price: #_ATT{price} [/events_if]
[events_if tag='_TOWN'] the town is: #_TOWN [/events_if]Ok, even better, you can now use all placeholders in the if-part as well, just by prepending them with “ESC”, eg:
<p>#j, #M #Y - #H:#i</p><p>#_NOTES</p>#_LOCATIONPAGEURL
[events_if tag='#ESC_ATT{color}' value='red'] color: #_ATT{color} [/events_if]
[events_if tag='#ESC_ATT{price}'] price: #_ATT{price} [/events_if]
[events_if tag='#ESC_TOWN'] the town is: #_TOWN [/events_if]For conditional tags, I added 2 extra shortcodes: one to check if you’re viewing a single event details page and idem for a single location:
#_IS_SINGLE_EVENT and #_IS_SINGLE_LOC
[events_if tag='#ESC_IS_SINGLE_EVENT' value='1'] I'm on the single event [/events_if]@admintiger: this should help you along now 🙂
That looks great! I will test it after breakfast.
A small thing to watch out for: wordpress expects a whitespace before “[” for shortcodes, so this won’t work:
[events_if tag='#ESC_IS_SINGLE_EVENT' value='1']I'm on the single event[/events_if]but this will:
[events_if tag='#ESC_IS_SINGLE_EVENT' value='1'] I'm on the single event [/events_if]So, far I haven’t been able to make this work with the current trunk version:
[events_if tag='#ESC_IS_SINGLE_LOC' value='1'] I'm on a single location [/events_if]However, I don’t understand where to set the value to ‘1’ and that probably is the problem, because the following displays “I’m on a single location” whether or not I am on a single location page:
[events_if tag='#ESC_IS_SINGLE_LOC' value='0'] I'm on a single location [/events_if]What I actually need is to display an anchor link when not on a single location page, because the link is to that page.
try again please, the “_” was ignored as part of a placeholder … (and I changed the check a bit as well)
With either of the following in the “Default location balloon format” the “[locations_map]” shortcode displays a map rectangle that is empty except for the word “map” in the upper-left corner and the string “I’m on a single location” displays in single location map balloons:
[events_if tag='#ESC_IS_SINGLE_LOC' value='1'] I'm on a single location [/events_if]
[events_if tag='#ESC_IS_SINGLE_LOC' value='0'] I'm on a single location [/events_if]Ok, I was checking with “empty” and the 0-value falls under that cat (you could use notvalue, I implemented these: value, notvalue, lt, gt). I changed the logic, so it should work now.
Try the latest trunk again (the “map” was because of an extra string being printed for testing, and was still in trunk)
#ESC_IS_SINGLE_LOC works as expected now. Thanks for adding this capability.
I haven’t tested #ESC_IS_SINGLE_EVENT yet.
Awesome! Is this going to be part of the next release? (when?) as I have a bunch of events stored and do not want to replace a stable release with a trunk.
Thanks for jumping on this! This will make a world of difference.
It will be in the next version. I’m holding any new features until after the next release (hopefully this week).
EDIT: I also added #_IS_LOGGED_IN as a third extra, so you can decide what to show whether people are logged in or not.
Fantastic. Looking forward to upgrading and using it.
And another placeholder added: #_IS_ADMIN_PAGE , so you can decide to show certain info only on the admin page
Btw: do keep me posted on the testing! I want to make sure I squashed all the current known bugs before releasing.
I may be doing something wrong, but this doesn’t seem to work:
[events_if tag='#_IS_LOGGED_IN value='1'] You are logged in [/events_if]I just noticed a missing ‘ after #_IS_LOGGED_IN. Will retest.
Now it works. First mistake I ever made!!!
These have both been tested and found to work correctly:
[events_if tag='#_IS_LOGGED_IN' value='0'] You are logged in [/events_if]
[events_if tag='#_IS_LOGGED_IN' value='1'] You are logged in [/events_if]These have both been tested and found to work correctly:
[events_if tag='#ESC_IS_SINGLE_EVENT' value='0'] This is a single event [/events_if]
[events_if tag='#ESC_IS_SINGLE_EVENT' value='1'] This is a single event [/events_if]Tip: you can use any normal placeholder in the [events_if] shortcode, but if it contains any quotes, carriage returns, etc … it will fail. That’s why I invented the #ESC method here (it escapes the whole lot)
I am not sure where you intend #_IS_ADMIN_PAGE to be used.
I’m having a problem with [events_if tag="#ESC_ATT{xxxx}"]#_ATT{xxxx}[/events_if]. I haven’t tested it with non-attribute placeholders, but the #ESC portion seems to break it. It works just fine if tag=”#_ATT{xxxx}”. Just wondering what your rationale is for escaping the placeholder.
See 3 posts up and the fact that the placeholder gets replaced before the [events_if] shortcode is interpreted …
Give me an example of a placeholder thing that breaks, so I can fix it.
[events_if tag="#ESC_ATT{Image URL}"] <img src=”#_ATT{Image URL}” /> [/events_if]
Are you saying to only use #ESC if the attribute has quotes or carriage returns?
What is the correct usage? Is it proper to always use #ESC when using the [events_if] shortcode? Or only when the attribute you’re testing for has a quote or other meaningful character?
Works! Thanks…
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