Multi Text

Mentioned in Mark’s original post:

For a little more control replace the number of columns with a space and the labels with a space [in the extension’s settings]. Then in the edit field page change the field type to a text field and enter the number of columns you would like in the textarea rows. Then change it to a drop-down list and enter your labels in the drop down list box. Finally change the field back to a multi text and you’re done. Field specific settings.

Mentioned in Mark’s original post:

Aha! Somehow I managed to read that three times and completely miss the point. Thanks! 😊

thanks smallbeer, I was just about to write out a response/example, when I saw that I already had done that. I missed it to brad, and I wrote it ::sheepishly::.

I’m trying to use this as a gallery so that I upload an image paste the code into the first column then add a caption as the second column but its outputting this…

https://ellislab.com/asset/images/team-photo/tree.jpg

and not displaying…

is there a way around this?

Thanks!

So then the problem is that the https://ellislab.com/asset/images/team-photo/ is not being replaced? Hum…..i’ll have to check that out.

Yeah that seems to be the problem, check it though as I could have made a mistake somewhere!

Was curious if it was possible to easily hack the extension to only show one row (by default it shows two rows of columns). I created a multitext field that will only use one row.

Mark, I’ve finally been able to test your extension and it’s as great as I expected. Nevertheless I ran into two small problems, I really hope you can help us out with this:

1. This is just a minor issue, but it seems that in the publish-section I can’t add any rows with Internet Explorer. As well as in IE6.x as in 7.0…
2. I use this extension to show a list of two columns in an index-template. Because there can be quite a lot of rows, I want our users to show only a list of 5 rows and then the option to continue to a detail-page where they can see all the rows. No matter what plugin I use to show a limited amount of characters/words I have the chance that your plugin will break the layout of my index page. Is it possible to create something like this for your extension:

<ul>
{members limit="5rows"}
<li><strong>{col_1}</strong>: {col_2}</li>
{/members}
</ul>

This way I can use any layout I want without worrying that it might break the overall layout.

Again thank you very much for this extension!!!

Ronny, you can now use limit= in the field, like you specified, just drop the “rows”.

<ul>
{members limit="5"}
<li><strong>{col_1}</strong>: {col_2}</li>
{/members}
</ul>

The new version should also fix the IE problems some people were having (silly tbody).

Oh wow! I didn’t expect you to be able to fix this so quick. So thank you very much!! Our site will relaunch in a couple of months and I’ll donate some profit of the very first banners to you. Thank you!

I’m glad I could help Ronny :-D

Mark,

Is it possible to use multi-text multiple times? In other words have different multi-text ‘field groups’ in different places in the CP? This extension looks fantastic and is perfect for the site I’m working on, only problem is I need it in multiple places for different things!

Thanks!

You sure could. If needed you can make an entire weblog of multi-text fields 😉

Doh! Man I need to get some sleep - it says that right in the first post. That’s multiple stupid posts regarding your work today. Sorry Mark!