2sxc 8.5 Entity picker, change a selected entity - dotnetnuke

Given:
Content type: Book
Content type: BookShelf, w/field Book. Book is Entity.
In 2sxc 8.5:
Make 2 Book entities.
Make 1 BookShelf entity.
Point BookShelf/Book to a Book
Point BookShelf/Book to a different Book
Not sure how to do #4 in the latest version of 2sxc.
8.4 had a dropdown where entities could be changed over time
8.5 does not seem to have that affordance

I believe you got stuck on a configuration. 2sxc 8.x has many new features which you can enable/disable on such a relationship. I believe right now you have set it to
don't allow multiple items
don't allow remove
so you have one item mapped, but you can't remove it, and you don't see the dropdown because you didn't adding more items :).
So just go to the entity-field settings and configure it.
Warning: there is a special case where you may have an old entity-field, and never configured which input-type you want (because there used to be only one). In this case, you want to first set which input-type you want to use (Entity-default), then you'll get the remaining fields to set:
and then

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WordPress : make categories automatically match according to external API Value

I'm managing a company website, where we have to display our products. We however do not want to handle the admin edit for this CPT, nor offer the ability to access to the form. But we have to read some product data form the admin edit page. All has to be created or updated via our CRM platform automatically.
For this matter, I already setup a CPT (wprc_pr) and registered 6 custom hierarchical terms: 1 generic for the types (wprc_pr_type) and 5 targeting each types available: wprc_pr_rb, wprc_pr_sp, wprc_pr_pe, wprc_pr_ce and wprc_pr_pr. All those taxonomies are required for filtering purposes (was the old way of working, maybe not the best, opened to suggestions here). We happen to come out with archive pages links looking like site.tld/generic/specific-parent/specific-child/ which is what is desired here.
I have a internal tool, nodeJS based, to batch create products from our CRM. The job is simple: get all products not yet pushed to the website, format a new post, push it to the WP REST API, wait for response, updated CRM data in consequence, and proceed to next product. Handle about 1600 products today on trialn each gone fine
The issue for now is that in order for me to put the correct terms to the new post, I have to compute for each product the generic type and specific type children.
I handled that by creating 6 files, one for each taxonomy. Each file is basically a giant JS object with the id from the CRM as a key, and the term id as a value. My script handles the category assertion like that:
wp_taxonomy = [jsTaxonomyMapper[crm_id1][crm_id2]] // or [] if not found
I have to say it is working pretty well, and that I could stop here. But I will have to take that computing to the wp_after_insert_post hook, in order to reaffect the post to the desired category on updated if something changed on the CRM.
Not quite difficult, but if I happen to add category on the CRM, I'll have to manually edit my mappers to add the new terms, and believe me that's a hassle.
Not waiting for a full solution here, but a way to work the thing. Maybe a way to computed those mappers and store their values in the options table maybe, or have a mapper class, I don't know at all.
Additional information:
Data from the CRM comes as integers (ids corresponding to a label) and the mappers today consist of 6 arrays (nested or not), about 600 total entries.
If you have something for me, or even suggestions to simplify the process, I'll go with it.
Thanks.
EDIT :
Went with another approach, see comment below.

Extract Product field for display on Test Case Search page

I am extending Kiwi TCMS for my team and trying to display the Product on the Search Test Cases page. The Product is tied to the Category field and I am not sure how to extract that field within the testcases/static/js/seach.js file.
I have traced it back to jsonrpc.js but am missing something, not sure what it is I am not seeing.
I added the Product field in the search.html file and the data is moved 1 column to the left since the array does not contain the Product field. I have tried "product" and "product_id" in the columns[] section of search.js.
Thanks
I have traced it back to jsonrpc.js but am missing something, not sure what it is I am not seeing.
JSON RPC is a communications protocol. The spec is very simple, you can find it at https://www.jsonrpc.org/specification. The jsonRPC function in Kiwi TCMS is a wrapper for that.
FK relationship between models are represented with a field called ..._id. For example Category has a field product_id. At the same time the Product model has a reverse relationship to Category - this is something that the underlying web framework adds automatically. The field is called Product.category.
Checkout how to make queries here:
https://kiwitcms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/tcms.rpc.api.html#module-tcms.rpc.api
If you have test_case.category_id then you can send another API request to Product.filter method filtering on the category field with the respective value.
Inside the browser console you can do something like:
jsonRPC('Product.filter', {category: 1630}, console.log)
and see the results you get.
I added the Product field in the search.html file and the data is moved 1 column to the left since the array does not contain the Product field. I have tried "product" and "product_id" in the columns[] section of search.js.
You will have to modify the entire page (which includes search, the callback, the HTML template and the function rendering the returned data) for this to work.
It sounds like either
you need more information shown in the search table: there isn't much space available, OTOH there is a filter per Product so if you teach users to filter by product everything they see will be related to that product so they won't need additional column for that information
you need a more flexible mechanism for extension - it is mostly doable and possible to design pages in Kiwi TCMS to be arbitrarily extensible, however we haven't thought in this direction and we need more information about the intended use-case to figure out the underlying architecture.
you can design an entirely separate search page, using the upstream code as your base. Then bundle that into a plugin and just install your plugin into Kiwi TCMS. That actually sounds like the best option in this case and you will have full control over that page, see https://kiwitcms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugins/index.html.

Accessing CustomFieldDefinition metadata via tooling api

So, I've been attempting to gather picklist dependencies per Opportunity record type for my lightning components. I have been able to retrieve Standard Field dependencies by RecordType, but it the Tooling API will not return the custom field dependencies. Standard calls and queries will not work either, as they state that the field has no controlling value or dependency.
Given this information I suspected that there was a table that is hidden somewhere that contains the keys for the RecordType and FieldDefinition, hopefully with a nested Metadata object.
I found an Id in one of the parameters in the setup menu for a Record Type and Id.getSObjectType() on it. The table name is CustomFieldDefinition. However, it is not accessible via SOQL or the Tooling API.
Has anyone accessed this table? Or has anyone been able to retrieve the field-record type picklist dependencies on custom fields AND standard fields?Tooling API ResponseDebug Log with SObject Name
I think you're doing it wrong.
"Controlling field" would be another picklist or a checkbox for example, something you change during same edit action. If you have dependency to record type - in that sense it's not a controlling field. Sure, you change record type and picklist changes - but really everything would change, it should be a different page layout (different fields shown, marked readonly/required etc). There's a reason that record type change is not done on normal edit screen, you do it by clicking special link on detail view and then everything "explodes".
Have a look at "User Interface API" - set of tools meant to help your custom app (mobile? desktop?) steal recreate a normal page layout. This one might be especially useful: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.uiapi.meta/uiapi/ui_api_resources_picklist_values_collection.htm
There's even a Trailhead: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/user-interface-api (skim through whole set but especially read last module)
And since you mentioned Lightning Components - are you aware of these ready tools:
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/component-library/documentation/lwc/lwc.reference_ui_api
getPicklistValuesByRecordType
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/component-library/documentation/lwc/lwc.reference_generate_record_input_create
or maybe you don't have to code it all and stuff like <lightning-record-edit-form> with recordtypeid passed to it will solve all your problems
Have a look, if I didn't give you a working solution then at least you have some keywords to Google around. If you're still stuck - try to post a code sample as new question?

Overview page of elements from a Typo3 page tree

I'm primarily a UI and graphic designer and, eventhough I have some experience with Typo3, I'm completely stuck at the following problem:
I have a large page tree with single pages for items from a catalogue (one item per page), the layouts for these items are built with Armin Vieweg's beautiful "Dynamic Content Elements" extension (DCE).
Now I want to create an overview page where I reference some of those items automatically - ideally I want to check a box in each element I want to display there (I would add a field catalogueItemPreview to the item DCE which authors can check or uncheck).
Unfortunately, I have no concrete idea of how the database is structured and how I could build a query (where would I even do that? in a custom-made plugin?).
This is how I imagine it could work: On the overview page I use a plugin/an extension in a Content Element that does the following:
search Typo3 DB for content elements with a field called "catalogueItemPreview"
return fields "catalogueItemTitle", "catalogueItemShortDescription", "cataloguePreviewImage"
use a template to render previews of all those elements on the overview page
I'm happy for ANY pointers towards a solution as currently I'm completely in the dark about where even to begin ...
Schematic screenshot from the Typo3 backend
thanks for using my DCE extension :)
Well the fields you have defined and their values in content elements are stored as XML, because the current version of DCE is based on Flexforms.
This makes it very very difficult to do MySQL queries using one of the field properties in WHERE clause. You could check for a xml string in the field pi_flexform but this is not recommended.
Instead I would use another property of content elements (tt_content) to mark the items as "Show on frontpage". For example you could create a new layout or section_frame value for that. Then it is very easy to just output the elements you want, using TypoScript.

Show custom object in related list under page layout

I have been trying this whole day but cant figure out... I have custom object called Dev which has many to many relationship with Accounts... I want this object Dev to show under related list of page layout of account... But it is not showing there how can i add that to related list?
Assuming you have a lookup relation from Account to Dev and also a lookup from Dev to Account (creating your many-to-many), then this will work fine.
Try re-creating your lookup relationship from Account to Dev. Then make sure that you add the related list and add to the page layouts in steps 5 & 6:
Step 5. Add reference field to Page Layouts (Yes to All)
Step 6. Add custom related lists (Yes)
That's all you need. If, however, your many-to-many relationship is unique or otherwise configured differently (with a junction table, for example) then the above may not work for you.
We always tend to use joining objects for these relationships, obviously you can show the list of joining objects as a related list, and you could display other fields from the dev object by use of formulae.
One thing we've tended to do is create an inline VF page which can then show all of the objects related to the current record.

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