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Top new questions this week:

Ignore 'The' when sorting by title

When sorting by title in channel results, is there a way to ignore the 'The'?

ee2 channel-entries channel

asked by Alissa J. Robinson 3 votes answered by Low 5 votes

Using EE as a data source for an iphone app

We're currently developing an html5 based iOS app using ExpressionEngine as the data source. So far it's working and looking great. However, we're unsure as to how approach the member side of things: …

members zoo-visitor authentication iphone

asked by Jim Pannell 1 vote answered by Aventus 0 votes

Add "shortcode" drop down to WYGWAM

Looking to build a Wordpress inspired "shortcode" for my EE editors to insert stylized content since they can't design their way out of paper bag. I'd like to put these shortcodes into a dropdown on …

pixelandtonic wygwam drop-down

asked by Geoff Baumbach 1 vote answered by CreateSean 0 votes

Playa - multiple selections - limit to 4

EE 2.5.5 PLaya 4.4.1 Zoo Visitor 1.3.23 On this site I have members who can edit their profile and select divisions that they belong to (playa). On the front end I can easily limit the display of …

playa zoo-visitor

asked by CreateSean 1 vote answered by James Smith 0 votes

safecracker hidden field status not working after upgrade (2.6)

<div class="lead-select"> <label for="task_lead" class="select" style="margin-top: 12px;">Select Employee</label><br/> {field:task_lead} <input type="hidden" …

safecracker upgrade

asked by ekard9 1 vote answered by Michiko 1 vote

stylesheet tag and imports

So I have an include template named '.head' in which I am calling my CSS like so: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="{stylesheet=assets/styles-css}" /> I was referencing …

ee2 css import stylesheets

asked by Brian Mallett 1 vote answered by Romans-8---31-39 1 vote

If conditional using category selections

Is there a way of saying If a category contains two selections, display this CSS If a category contains one selection display this CSS instead. I can't seem to find the right formula of {if} …

ifelse category

asked by sazzy 1 vote answered by Nathan Pitman 2 votes

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Channel:categories of entries that have category from different category group

What we are trying to do: I am using three category-groups, "product category", brands and country of origin, to create a navigation in a shop with the ability to filter the content of each product …

categories

asked by Kim Wincent Wickell 2 votes answered by janvl 2 votes

{filedir_X} tag not parsing in File field

I have a link to an uploaded PDF in my template but some of links seem to output a mystery {filedir_3} instead of the path to the upload folder. So the following template code... {if …

file-uploads parsing

asked by Patrick64 4 votes answered by Jérôme Coupé 2 votes

Can you answer these?

File Category or Assets Folders for File Listings?

I'm using Assets and need to output a 'Resources' section listing various types of PDF's - Brochures, Technical Data, Operating Manuals with a 'category' nav to filter them. I initially set them up …

categories assets2 files

asked by Damien Buckley 1 vote

Cant get the map shown from channel entry

I am trying to get one map to be shown that is actually a channel field, using Google Maps For ExpressionEngine. What i have done: 1- created a channel called "retkeilykohteet" 2- set own statusgroup …

add-on google-maps-for-ee google-maps v2.5.5

asked by Finpete 1 vote

Emails not being sent from CP after 2.6 update

Site is using Sendgrid (Smtp) to send newsletters via the Communicate Tab or Firemail and also using Freeform for form notifications. Since the 2.6 upgrade none of these work: Freeform is storing …

email smtp

asked by Tarquin Rees 1 vote