Questions tagged [custom-field]
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How to extend the article search to take into account the values of custom fields?
In articles I have added a series of custom fields, now I need to be able to filter through these fields, while being in the article manager view. I have searched about it but without success, I just ...
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Only show joomla custom fields on certain category levels
Is it possible to only show a field on for example the 3rd level of categories? Now when I link a field to a top level categorie, the field is shown on all articles on all levels of categories, but is ...
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Extra fields Vs. float numbers
Well, I am trying to develop a simple web system that uses Joomla CMS.
The project is simple and becomes from a thought of working with Joomla categories, subcategories, articles and extra fields ...
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How to programmatically set the value of a custom field of type checkbox?
In articles, I have created a series of custom fields, including two date fields and a checkboxes field. Now, through a plugin in the onContentBeforeSave event I need to verify that if date 1 is less ...
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Is it possible to edit the SQL custom field to be multi-select?
I want to be able to select multiple values with the SQL custom field. Is this possible? When I use a query which as multiple results, I can only pick one.
I found this post: Creating custom field ...
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Get module params in custom form field
I need to get all other module field-params of the current module inside of a custom form field in backend.
In tmpl/default.php it works with:
$bgcolor = $params->get('bgcolor');
But in custom ...
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How to change custom field order in field group?
For articles, I have created two custom fields and I have registered both in a field group -- this much is fine.
Now I would like to change the order in which the fields are displayed on the page. I ...
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Insert Contacts Custom Field In Article
I have created a few custom fields for my contacts. I now want to display these contact details withinin some articles using the following format;
{field 1} will display the field with the ID 1
{...
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Custom Field Tag Style List
Joomla 3.9.11
I have created an SQL custom field for my joomla contacts called location, this allows me to assign a location to my contacts.
The SQL simply selects location_name from a custom db ...
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Default value for repeatable custom field
I am trying to set a default value for the repeatable custom field.
My subform has a number field, a media field and a text field.
I am using the default value field in the repeatable field ...
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FieldsPlugin onCustomFieldsPrepareDom $field on save different on front and backend
I currently develop a FieldPlugin for myself. I noticed some things and don't understand them fully right now. My plugin works in the backend perfect, but raises errors on the frontend, so I did some ...
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Call com_ajax from module backend
To create thumbnails & cache files, I have to access my already created Ajax Functions inside my helper.php file.
I'm already able to call the functions within the frontend (button that is ...
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Access namespaced custom field method from a plugin into another plugin
In one of my previous questions, I learned how to properly set up a namespaced custom form field, but it turns out that it's only available within its plugin scope for some reason.
I need the field ...
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Joomla 4 - import parent field class into extending field class issue finding the files
Testing my Joomla 3.9 extensions in Joomla 4, some of them didn't work, because, as instructed with the (probably) old documentation my custom fields use
jimport('joomla.form.formfield');
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Joomla 4 - how to set namespace for custom field addfieldprefix
I have the editors-xtd\vimeo plugin with this structure
..\plugins\editors-xtd\vimeo\models\fields\(a bunch of custom fields)
..\plugins\editors-xtd\vimeo\forms\form.xml
..\plugins\editors-xtd\vimeo\...
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Extended subform field use own layout from template/html folder
I've created an extended subform field type called families.php, basically I want to have my own custom layout for this custom field, it makes sense I don't want to mess up everything just for this ...
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Adding field path and script into form relative to template path
Case 1
I am trying to add field path into templateDetails.xml without specifying a templateName. The following code works
<fieldset name="name" label="label" addfieldpath="/templates/templateName/...
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fetch user custom fields in article
I have created some custom fields in user profile from backend
templates/name-template/html/com_content/article/default.php
and use this code for load custom fields at joomla article
<?php
$...
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Use a plugin defined field inside template
I've created a custom field for my plugin and it's working great, but if I want to use the same field within my templateDetails.xml I get an almost blank page in the template style edit page. I should ...
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Get form input in custom field
I'm currently working on a custom field, where I manually add a checkbox to a file upload field.
PDF Upload field
In onContentBeforeSave I want to read this checkbox to decide what to do with the ...
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Get parent menu item object in plugin
Problem
Working with a code variation from this tutorial I'm trying to get the parent menu item instance object of a given item (currently editing) and it always returns null.
/**
* Prepare form ...
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Display Article custom fields in table
I am trying to customise the way the article custom fields are displayed on the category blog page. At present they are displayed in a vertical list:
What I would like to do is display these in a ...
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Joomla custom fields for category - subtitle & headerimage
I have an override for the category/blog.php layout and i want to display a headerimage and a subtitle with the custom fields introduced in joomla 3.7. For this implementation I already use Joomla 3.9....
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Joomla - Custom fields in Backend - Template override
I have a Joomla-site with a lot of extra-fields in custom fields area. When I edit my articles the long list of fields is quite confusing. So I thought I could be a good idea to show the custom fields ...
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fetch article custom fields in Layouts
I have created some custom fields in my Joomla article from backend
templates/name-template/html/com_content/article/default.php
and use this code for load custom fields at joomla article
<?php
...
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Get custom field list option value in template override blog_item.php
Using joomla! 3.9.2
I have an article custom field, type List with the ID 14.
The List values are below:
Text - Value
1 = 335,538,353,559
2 = 390,538,408,559
I am trying to pull the ...
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Joomla 3.x - Custom Field automatic updating in article
Perhaps I am not using the Custom Fields properly, but here is my problem:
I have a piece of text which appears in a number of different articles. Rather than have to update each individual article ...
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Using a custom field with different names
I want to use a flexible field name for a field across different forms thru my extension.
My custom example field looks like this:
defined('_JEXEC') or die;
use Joomla\CMS\Factory;
use Joomla\CMS\...
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Adding Additional Fields to Admin Component
I'm using Joomla 3.9.1 and SP Simple Portfolio v1.6
I would like to add some additional fields to the SP Simple Portfolio component. Image of current fields (taken from Google);
How can I add ...
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Which Custom field is better?
Which field is better for displaying code like below?
Textarea or editor field ?
I'm currently using Textarea
I want to know which method is better and will affect the speed of the site
Does anyone ...
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How do I get of joomla's custom field group and its content
How do I query the joomla custom field group and its content (if it exists)? I want the content of field groups to be "implemented" in the joomla's template com_content/article/default.php file. My ...
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How to get Custom Fields related to Joomla Content?
I want to know how they get the values of custom user fields within Joomla articles. This is to contribute ideas and ways to solve it.
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Add layout for custom field
How can i add an additional layout for repeatable.php of the custom fields in my template?
So i want to create repeatable_image.php and make it available in layout render option of the custom field.
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Retrieve values from a custom field in Joomla 3.8
excuse for my English.
I try to retrieve my value from a custom field in com_categories. I added this field by a plugin. My value is correctly saved but i don't why, i can't retrieve my value from ...
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Custom Fields inside module override
I am using this code inside a module override that render articles, to show the custom fields:
<?php
$id=$item->id;
$db = JFactory::getDbo();
$query = 'select * from #...
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Group of fields for different group of users
I have custom field "Client type" in registration form, which I created in Users->Fields. Already I have next usergroups:
Registered
Subgroup of Registered - Human
Subgroup of Registered - Company
I ...
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How can I add custom user field values to an article?
I have created a custom user field named "Gender".
How can I show this field in an article?
I can only manage to show: username, name, email and User Id
Here is my current Sourcerer code to access ...
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Getting Category's custom fields in a blog view
I'm trying to get the custom fields value of a category in a blog view.
I have try the article item method but on the child item (supposed to be the current category item in the loop) :
JLoader::...
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How to generate a dynamic note field for a custom component?
I am attempting to develop my first custom component called com_image. Because of the structure and function of my project requirements, it made best sense to clone the com_contact folder and ...
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How to dynamically filter blog/list layout by today's date?
I've created a Joomla article category 'Events' with three list views:
all events
past events
future events
All three views refer to the same "Events" category. The past and future events layout use ...
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How can I output each item of a multiple list custom field
print_r($item->jcfields);
Array
(
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 1
[title] => Specialisms
[name] => specialisms
[checked_out] ...
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How can you call custom fields in an override for com_contacts
In com_content I can call my fields one by one as follows
<?php echo $this->item->jcfields[3]->value; ?>
The same code does not work in com_contacts. How can I call the fields in a ...
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How to add placeholder to input field via php variable
In my login form, custom layout fields are displayed by the $field->input variable. Unfortunately, those fields are displayed without the placeholder attribute.
Is there any way to add this ...
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How to show article's custom fields in the header of the page?
I am using Jommla's default Protostar template. I have custom fields for articles and I want to show this custom field in the header of the page, not inside the article. How can I achieve that?
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Custom form field types unavailable in plugin backend when plugin disabled
I've created a plugin and added a couple of custom fields to its backend. For that I followed the indications from the Joomla docs. I extended for example JFormFieldList to get a dropdown list of ...
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Custom fields - JS in template override
We need to add some enhanced ecommerce tags to standard Google Analytics tracking on few pages. We think the best way to do it would be to use Joomla Custom fields so we created a custom field for ...
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Joomla custom fields let a user add their own options
Joomla has custom fields, but I want something more.
If I add a field, lets say: colors to a category.
Is it possible somehow that a user can open an article, and add his own options? In this case ...
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Extended tag field joomla article custom field
I have some joomla custom fields in articles.
But I need 3 custom fields that should behave like the joomla "tags" so that, besides selecting from the options available, the user can also insert a new ...
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Custom fields “on demand”
I've got an article that's a simple event. I don't need any event management extension because
I used joomla custom fields to associate to each event some info like speakers, date, ....
One info ...
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Joomla custom fields management
I'm new to joomla custom fields and also don't have a deep knowledge of joomla.
I need to create a custom fields name "Speakers" to associate to a event. It's a multiselect field so that when ...
