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    • March 9, 2015 at 5:19 pm #3407
      justin
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      I am trying to add a “notes” section to a post type that will record the current user and date of the note. So i created a “group” field type that had 2 text fields that I tried to lock on_post_status and auto insert the value, and have one textfield option. The problem is that by using the on_post_status it does not work correctly Please see photo. It does not allow me to add multiple notes.

      
piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'group'
    ,'field' => 'reg_notes'
    ,'add_more' => true
    ,'label' => 'Notes'
    ,'description' => 'You can add private notes below for internal reference that only team members will see.'
    ,'fields' => array(
      array(
        'type' => 'text'
        ,'field' => 'note_author'
		,'value' => $current_user->display_name
        ,'columns' => 3
		,'on_post_status' => array(
			'value' => 'approved'
		)
      )
      ,array(
        'type' => 'text'
        ,'field' => 'note_date'
		,'value' => date("m/d/y")
        ,'columns' => 2
		,'on_post_status' => array(
			'value' => 'approved'
		)
      )
      ,array(
        'type' => 'textarea'
        ,'field' => 'note_text'
        ,'columns' => 7
        ,'attributes' => array(
          'placeholder' => 'Your Notes'
        )
      )
    )
  ));
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    • March 10, 2015 at 9:58 am #3416
      Steve
      Keymaster

      @justin– on_post_status is designed to lock a field on a certain post status. Are you trying to lock past notes?

    • March 10, 2015 at 10:40 am #3421
      justin
      Member

      Ideally that would be great, but I could not figure that out. So instead I was just going to have 2 of the 3 fields in the group always be locked because I automatically set the value to the current date and the current user. But when I try and lock those two fields in the group that allows for add_more, the add more button disappears, and I can now only add a single note instead of multiple notes.

      GROUP with add more functionality set to true

      • Name (This field will be automatically set to current user, and always be locked)
      • Date (This field will be automatically set to current date and always be locked)
      • Notes (This field will never be locked-unless it was possible to lock past notes, but that is not what the code above is trying to do.)
    • March 10, 2015 at 10:47 am #3423
      Steve
      Keymaster

      @justin– No reason to get all fancy and use get_post_status… the standard HTML attribute readonly will work, and Piklist makes it super easy to add attributes.

      Try this:

      piklist('field', array(
  'type' => 'group'
  ,'field' => 'reg_notes'
  ,'add_more' => true
  ,'label' => 'Notes'
  ,'description' => 'You can add private notes below for internal reference that only team members will see.'
  ,'fields' => array(
    array(
      'type' => 'text'
      ,'field' => 'note_author'
      ,'value' => $current_user->display_name
      ,'columns' => 3
      ,'attributes' => array(
        'readonly' => 'readonly'
      )
    )
    ,array(
      'type' => 'text'
      ,'field' => 'note_date'
      ,'value' => date("m/d/y")
      ,'columns' => 2
      ,'attributes' => array(
        'readonly' => 'readonly'
      )
    )
    ,array(
      'type' => 'textarea'
      ,'field' => 'note_text'
      ,'columns' => 7
      ,'attributes' => array(
        'placeholder' => 'Your Notes'
      )
    )
  )
));
    • March 10, 2015 at 4:23 pm #3429
      justin
      Member

      Thank you. Did not event think about using that. The only other thing now that I am finding is that when you add another field, it is not auto-populated by the value I have inputted. They are just blank.

    • March 10, 2015 at 4:39 pm #3430
      Steve
      Keymaster

      @justin– The reason that only the first add-more sets the default is to make a better user experience. Change the fields from text to html and it will work:

      piklist('field', array(
  'type' => 'group'
  ,'field' => 'reg_notes'
  ,'add_more' => true
  ,'label' => 'Notes'
  ,'description' => 'You can add private notes below for internal reference that only team members will see.'
  ,'fields' => array(
    array(
      'type' => 'html'
      ,'field' => 'note_author'
      ,'value' => $current_user->display_name
      ,'columns' => 3
    )
    ,array(
      'type' => 'html'
      ,'field' => 'note_date'
      ,'value' => date("m/d/y")
      ,'columns' => 2
    )
    ,array(
      'type' => 'textarea'
      ,'field' => 'note_text'
      ,'columns' => 7
      ,'attributes' => array(
        'placeholder' => 'Your Notes'
      )
    )
  )
));
    • March 10, 2015 at 4:44 pm #3431
      justin
      Member

      Thank you for your help.

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