Profile post: added a new Department field
Enhancement request
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Current RED Profile post has an Academic Title field and Alternate Title field plus contact fields, but no Department field. Users wish to add a Department field to appear in profiles. This would be especially helpful to units with listings across departments.
Solution: some technical details
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To add a new field to Profile post means the new filed description file should be added to Profile object (it defines field mane space and constructor with the fields properties):
wordpress/docroot/wp-content/plugins/uic-red/src/ASF/Fields/ProfileDepartment.php
Department field properties were defined as:
‘key’ => ‘field_profile_department’, ‘label’ => ‘Department’, ‘name’ => ‘department’, ‘type’ => ‘text’, ‘instructions’ => ”, ‘required’ => 0, ‘conditional_logic’ => 0, ‘wrapper’ => array ( ‘width’ => ”, ‘class’ => ”, ‘id’ => ”, ), ‘default_value’ => ”, ‘placeholder’ => ”, ‘prepend’ => ”, ‘append’ => ”, ‘maxlength’ => ”, ‘readonly’ => 0, ‘disabled’ => 0
Also I added the new field to Profile post definition and name space in
wordpress/docroot/wp-content/plugins/uic-red/src/ACF/FieldGroups/Profile.php
Presentation layer should be adjusted in patternlab .twig and .styl files here:
- /uic-publish/patternlab/patternlab/patterns/core/single-profile.twig
- /uic-publish/patternlab/patternlab/patterns/core/single-profile.json
- /uic-publish/patternlab/patternlab/patterns/partials/directory/directory-profile.twig
- /uic-publish/patternlab/styles/patterns/core/profile.styl
Usage
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This new Department field might be used while creating directory listing structure as well as individual profiles.
It gives you more flexibility and choices (Academic Title, Alternate Title, Department).
See examples on a directory page and click through to see usage in a profile.