I think I have the solution: create a table with the header row, then go into HTML view and put the shortcode after the header row and before </table>. I’ll try it out tomorrow.
Plugin Author
Franky
(@liedekef)
Hi,
for things that get looped (like the list of events or bookings), you can provide a header/entry/footer template, so put the html-header part of the table in the header, one row in the entry and the html-footer part of the table in the footer.
Franky,
Thank you for your help. I got this to work but I don’t think it’s what you were explaining. What I did that worked was to create a “dummy” person whose sole purpose is to be in a group (with only that one person (but I guess any person would have been fine)) which I then use for the header and footer. Here’s what I have in the page:
[eme_people group_id=3 template_id=3] : Group of 1 person, header template
[eme_people group_id=1 template_id=2] : The group I want to display
[eme_people group_id=3 template_id=4] : Group of 1 person, footer template
Another approach that worked was to create another template with the table header and footer and then call the template with the content I want:
<table style="border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th style="width: 25%" scope="col">Name</th>
<th style="width: 25%" scope="col">Title</th>
<th style="width: 25%" scope="col">Phone</th>
<th style="width: 25%" scope="col">E-mail</th>
</tr>
[eme_people group_id=1 template_id=2]
</tbody>
</table>
So then, of course I can put what I put in the page in a template and have just this in the page:
[eme_people group_id=3 template_id=6]
Is this more-or-less what you were getting at? In any case, all options work the same way. Is there a way I could have done this without creating a group of one person?
Thanks,
Bruce
Plugin Author
Franky
(@liedekef)
Simplest solution: create 3 templates. First a header template with (based on your example) ID=3:
<table style="border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th style="width: 25%" scope="col">Name</th>
<th style="width: 25%" scope="col">Title</th>
<th style="width: 25%" scope="col">Phone</th>
<th style="width: 25%" scope="col">E-mail</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
Then a footer template with ID=4:
</tbody>
</table>
The a template with id=2 (change the placeholders to your liking):
<tr>
<td>#_NAME</td>
<td>#_FIELD{title}</td>
<td>#_PHONE</td>
<td>#_EMAIL</td>
</tr>
and then just call the templates:
[eme_people group_id=1 template_id_header=3 template_id=2 template_id_footer=4]
the template with id=2 will get repeated for each person in the group with id=1
