custom fields "per Section" ?

Dawk · 2006-01-22 16:58:46

I have a basic understanding of custom fields after reading various threads & textbook, but I can’t find if there is a way to have 10 custom fields “per Section” ?

Can I have custom fields for each specific Section or are you limited to 10 globally?

Is there a plugin to extend custom field features?

Thanks a bunch

els · 2006-01-22 17:15:39

10 is the global limit. You might want to have look at the rss_unlimited_categories plugin?

Dawk · 2006-01-22 21:08:06

Hmmm, thats no good :)
The plugin you linked didn’t sound like it had any solutions either.

I simply need 10+ custom fields per Section.

This doesn’t sound like it would be too complicated of a hack or plugin to add custom fields to Sections?
Add the custom field settings in the Section admin & be able to call them like < txp:custom_field section=“foo” name=“bar” />

I’m willing to pay for this, any takers?

Last edited by Dawk (2006-01-22 21:11:30)

els · 2006-01-22 22:04:16

Dawk wrote:

Hmmm, thats no good :)
The plugin you linked didn’t sound like it had any solutions either.

Sorry, I thought you might be able to do want you want with categories instead of custom fields.

I simply need 10+ custom fields per Section.

This doesn’t sound like it would be too complicated of a hack or plugin to add custom fields to Sections?
Add the custom field settings in the Section admin & be able to call them like < txp:custom_field section=“foo” name=“bar” />

I’m willing to pay for this, any takers?

You’d better post this in the Plugins forum then.

Dawk · 2006-01-22 22:24:33

Hey doggies, thanx for the tip though, you got me digging more & I was way off. Got’er sorted now I think?
You do have 10 field values available “per article”, just 10 “named” fields globally, so that’ll work even better. ;)

I can at least get my basic values into the DB. :)

I thought what I was originally thinking was awful restricting.

Thanks again,
Greg

els · 2006-01-22 22:40:33

Glad you solved your problem :)

Dawk · 2006-01-22 22:56:57

I apologize for being so dense lol txp noob :)

One thing I’m wondering about still & can see a problem on the horizon, if its not possible?

Is it possible to pull the 10 values from specific articles (spread across various Sections), to a data table on the frontpage? I can set all articles to display on Frontpage if thats required?
I was wanting to put together a comparison table with all of my article values displayed in a table.

Thats about the only thing that I’m not sure how to do still & at least want to make sure its possible before I proceed.

Thanks again :)

els · 2006-01-23 15:22:14

Do you mean something like this?

Dawk · 2006-01-23 16:37:12

Yep, that looks perfect!

I had already thought of using forms all by myself lol, wasn’t sure enough to do it yet though.

Starting to get the hang of this :)

Thanks again, forms & article_custom should work great.

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custom fields "per Section" ?

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