Jason, that was one of the best programming-related laughs (heck, any kind of laugh) I’ve had in some time, thanks! I’m going to paste that up on my wall to help keep me sane when this sort of thing happens again!

Steve – thanks and I’ll keep that in mind in the future!

Awesome. Thanks Marcus!

Hi again Marcus!

Hey, I realized that there was an unintended consequence in my using that fine JS code of yours. Since I had to rename the relevant metafields for the calc to work, all the data my client already entered in for those – in 130+ posts – is no longer being used or displayed. Well, the front end was OK, but only because it was grabbing the old fields.

Instead of making my client re-enter all those numbers, I’m wondering if the script could simply do a hard-coded calc of the needed fields, as they already are named, instead of the (admittedly efficient and nifty) approach of custom-naming the fields and using the “each” function.

Not pretty I know, but this field configuration is not going to change, and if it does, I’m happy to hard-code a fix.

Let me know… thanks!
Adam

Thanks a million Marcus! I followed your instructions to the letter, AFAIK – and have confirmed that your script is loading – but I’m not seeing any auto-summing.

Here’s what I’ve done for the autosum fields in the metabox file:

piklist('field', array(
  'type' => 'text',
  'field' => 'calcme_trams',
  'label' =>  __('Trams'),
  'position' => 'wrap',
  'attributes' => array(
    'class' => 'text',
    'columns' => 2,
    'onFocus' => 'calcMe();'  ) 
)); 

…and here’s what i did for the grand-total field:

piklist('field', array(
  'type' => 'text',
  'field' => 'finalcalc_total_lifts',
  'label' =>  __('Total Lifts'),
  'position' => 'wrap',
  'attributes' => array(
    'class' => 'text',
    'columns' => 2,
    'readonly' => "readonly"
  ) 
)); 

But nothing happens.

Any idea what might be amiss?

Thanks again,
Adam

Hi guys! I had this working beautifully – I invoked a function for a bunch of numerical Piklist fields, all coded similar to this:

piklist('field', array(
  'type' => 'text',
  'field' => 'surface_lifts',
  'label' =>  __('Surface Lifts'),
  'position' => 'wrap',
  'attributes' => array(
    'class' => 'text',
    'columns' => 2,
    'onFocus' => 'startCalc();',
    'onBlur' => 'stopCalc();'
  ) 
)); 

…and for the autosum field, I did this:

piklist('field', array(
  'type' => 'text',
  'field' => 'total_lifts',
  'label' =>  __('Total Lifts'),
  'position' => 'wrap',
  'attributes' => array(
    'class' => 'text',
    'columns' => 2,
    'readonly' => "readonly"
  ) 
));

and it used this JavaScript:

function calc(){

  lifts1 = document.post["post_meta[trams]"].value; 
  lifts2 = document.post["post_meta[gondolas]"].value; 
  lifts3 = document.post["post_meta[hs_sixpack]"].value;
  lifts4 = document.post["post_meta[hs_quad]"].value; 
  lifts5 = document.post["post_meta[hs_triple]"].value; 
  lifts6 = document.post["post_meta[quad_chairs]"].value; 
  lifts7 = document.post["post_meta[triple_chairs]"].value; 
  lifts8 = document.post["post_meta[double_chairs]"].value; 
  lifts9 = document.post["post_meta[surface_lifts]"].value; 
  document.post["post_meta[total_lifts]"].value = 
    (lifts1*1) 
  + (lifts2*1) 
  + (lifts3*1)
  + (lifts4*1)
  + (lifts5*1)
  + (lifts6*1)
  + (lifts7*1)
  + (lifts8*1)
  + (lifts9*1);
}

function startCalc(){
  interval = setInterval("calc()",1);
}

function stopCalc(){
  clearInterval(interval);
}

But after the move to the final server – plus a Piklist update – it doesn’t work. I get this error:

TypeError: ‘undefined’ is not an object (evaluating ‘document.post[“post_meta[trams]”].value’)

…implying it’s failing when trying to get the first value.

I apologize that my Javascript is pretty rudimentary, but I wanted to check with you guys in case it might be something to do with Piklist, or perhaps how I’m supposed to reference the metafield variables has changed…

Thanks!
adam

Hi again guys. Not sure why the error reported above, but turns out that’s not really my main problem anymore. Actually I have two.

• There’s no standard Title or Content area (I only really need a Title as these posts will only have very specific, Piklist-created metaboxes)
• I can’t view an archive of the custom posts.

So I created my new post type, for listing adaptive snow sports organizations, with this code:

https://gist.github.com/cosmocanuck/7966275

I also added a file called “adaptive-metabox.php” in my theme, and its custom metaboxes are showing up fine when I edit the new posts:

https://gist.github.com/cosmocanuck/7966513

First problem: no title box. Why is that? My understanding from web self-study was that it, and the content text area, are included by default, but I may be misunderstanding how it works, or how Piklist does things.

Second problem: can’t view archive.

I can view one of my new custom posts here:

http://(name-of-my-site)/e2s_adaptive/1552/

My understanding is, if I go here:

http://(name-of-my-site)/e2s_adaptive/

…I should see an archive of the e2s_adaptive category. But instead, I get a 404 error.

I duplicated the archive.php file as archive-e2s_adaptive.php in my theme, which was how I understood i could eventually control the display. But it seems to be ignored, along with the archive.php file which I thought would be the fallback anyway.

So, I’m a little baffled, though I admit I’m venturing out into the far edges of my WordPress knowledge.

Any pointers in the right direction would be most tremendously welcome.

Thanks!
adam