Custom Fields, use a Module? - Forum | JoomShaper
Solved SP Page Builder

Custom Fields, use a Module?

Asked by SPD 4 years ago Last activity 4 years ago

Hi
I will be using about 10 custom field , associated with 90% of my articles, which I will want to display in each article.

I had read in the Documentation that you can't use shortcuts {} in SP PB Add-ons so I was wondering what the best stratgey would be for me.

While I know nothing about modules, if I created one using only native Joomla stuff would it display the field values, e.g. {Field 1},{Field 2},{Field 3} properly in articles created using SP PB Pro? I'm asking before i spend the time reasearching how to create modules.

Thanks very much

Accepted answer

Marked as the solution
Paul Frankowski Senior Staff
4 years ago · edited

Hi SPD,
the main question is do you really need to use Article integration in SPPB ? If yes, I have extra addon that support shortcodes.

  1. Download > shortcode_html.zip
  2. Unzip
  3. Using FTP tool, create missing folders and addon copy folder to: templates\shaper_TEMPLATE-NAME\sppagebuilder\addons
    ftp_2022.png
  4. Use it, that addon support most of shortcodes, it was based on Raw html addon with small change.

shortcode_addon.png

1 more reply

SPD Asked this
4 years ago · edited

Thanks for the information and add-on. I am 'assuming' I need article intergration because of how my site will work,this is what I have come up with.
My site is a catalogue of 'resources' which are links to other sources like google docs, youtube videos, links to other sites etc..
Visitors will come to the site becuase the information they seek can be spread out all over the place. My goal is to provide a source where they can search (using JFilters for example), see a list of 'Blog entries', click an entry to an Article, which has a description, a link to the resource, and a few relevant custom fields, like version, status and other relevant descripters.

In order to use the Blog and JFilters features I assumed I was limited to using Articles as oppose to SP Pages.

I hope this makes sense and feel free to ignore if it not really relevant content to JoomShaper forums.

Log in to reply.