Filterform in specific categories

[Anonymous]

Hi Franky.

I have a question. I have 3 main categories of events. Indoors (37), Outdoors (38) and Online (36).

I have separate pages for each of these three categories.

For example, I have a page for Online events.
I use the shortcode: [eme_events template_id=2 category=36 notcategory=37,38] (36 being the Category ID for Online)

I have 8 other categories (Music, Film etc.)

When I am on the page for Online Events I am using the Filterform shortcode, so that I can further filter (like subcategories) [eme_filterform category=39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46]

However, when I am on the Online Events page, and the shortcode displays only events from Category 36, as soon as I choose a (sub) category from the filter (for example Music), it displays events from the other two main categories (Indoors (37) and Outdoors (38)) even though I have ‘notcategory’ in the eme_events shortcode.

Is there some way around this?
Thanks
Jamie

[Franky]

The notcategory should still be taken into account … I’ll test this myself later on

[Anonymous]

Thanks Franky

[Franky]

I’m sorry, but I’m not able to reproduce this problem.

[Anonymous]

Hi.

How strange. Thanks for looking into it anyway

Jamie

[Franky]

If you really want: give me some temp access to your site to see the problem there (and tell me how to see it happen) or otherwise I’ll close this bug for now.

[Anonymous]

Hi Franky.

Thank you, there’s no need. I came up with a workaround.

I assigned class names for each category to the events elements and then filtered the elements using this method: https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_filter_elements.asp

Thanks again
Jamie

[Anonymous]

Hi

Just in case anyone else comes across this issue. I found that it was also solved by not comma separating the category IDs and using the ‘+’ instead

So instead of:
[eme_events template_id=2 category=36 notcategory=37,38]

I used:
[eme_events template_id=2 category=36 notcategory=37+38]

However, if any events are marked in two of the categories simultaneously, they won’t appear.

[Franky]

Ah yes, I tested with only 1 notcategory. The fact you need “+” is logical there because that translates to “AND NOT IN” (logically speaking) while “,” translates to “OR NOT IN” (which is illogical for a “not”)

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