Thanks Steve, that’s awesome. I even managed to further customize it with a title field to name each component.

It was tricky though… bit of a pretzel logic thing… and I did look for a rundown on the use of Groups and Columns in the tutorials section, but couldn’t seem to find anything that really explains it – it’s listed here:

https://piklist.com/user-guide/docs/field-parameters/

But it doesn’t really explain when they “kick in” and how to use them… might be something for a future embellishment to the User Guide…

But bottom line, thanks a million for helping with this, and I will certainly study, and hopefully learn from, your example!

adam

Sure, Steve! Here you go:

piklist(‘field’, array(
‘type’ => ‘group’
,’field’ => ‘component’
,’label’ => __(‘Components’)
,’description’ => __(‘Add additional Components if a recipe has separate listings for different parts, i.e. the salad and the dressing.’)
,’add_more’ => true
,’fields’ => array(
array(
‘type’ => ‘html’
,’label’ => __(‘Ingredients’)
,’help’ => __(‘For consistency, please only capitalize sentences and Superior product names; otherwise keep all text lower case.’)
,’columns’ => 12
,’attributes’ => array(
‘class’ => ‘large-text’
)
)

,array(
‘type’ => ‘text’
,’field’ => ‘component_title’
,’label’ => __(‘Component Title (optional for 1st)’)
,’columns’ => 12
)

,array(
‘type’ => ‘group’
,’field’ => ‘ingredient’
,’add_more’ => true
,’fields’ => array(
array(
‘type’ => ‘number’
,’field’ => ‘ingredient_qty’
,’label’ => __(‘Qty’)
,’columns’ => 2
)
,array(
‘type’ => ‘textarea’
,’field’ => ‘ingredient_descrip’
,’label’ => __(‘Description’)
,’columns’ => 10
)
)
)
)
));

OK, this is not a panic but a real problem, hopefully just a code error but for the life of me I can’t find it!

I duplicated the same overall structure that works for the ingredients, into the instructions area. So, I can have multiple “groups” of instructions if necessary.

However, when I add multiple steps – when I save the post, each step gets wrapped in its own “group” even though I did not add any additional groups!

Here’s my code for that section, as it currently stands. Login info if you need it, is in the above post in this thread.

Thanks!

piklist('field', array(
   'type' => 'group'
   ,'field' => 'steps_section'
   ,'label' => __('Steps')
   ,'description' => __('Do not add numbers to the steps; they\'ll be added automatically.')
   ,'add_more' => true  
   ,'fields' => array(
					array(
				   'type' => 'html'
				   ,'label' => __('Steps section')
				   ,'columns' => 12
				   ,'value' => ''
				   ,'attributes' => array(
					 'class' => 'recipe-subhead'
										)
					 )
	
	
	
	
				 	,array(
						'type' => 'text'
						,'field' => 'steps_component_title'
						,'label' => __('Section Title (can be omitted if there’s only one section)')
						,'columns' => 12
					)

					 ,array(
						'type' => 'textarea'
						,'field' => 'recipe_step'
						,'label' => __('Recipe Step')
						,'columns' => 12
						,'add_more' => true
				 	 )
				 	 
				 	 
				 	 
				 	 	 
	
   				)
 ));

Thanks Steve. I finally realized what I did – I didn’t keep the ingredient steps within a Group field as I’d done for the Qty/Ingredient pairs. I’d thought that being a single repeating field, it would stay in its containing Group, but clearly it needed to still be in a group even if is only one repeating item, not a set.

And, I’d say this support thread is done! I may have another for you about displaying the nested data… but I’ll start that up separately if needed. 8^)

Thanks!