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Perch blog category checkboxes replaced

Hi

I just updated to the latest version of Perch and Blog (from the previous versions).

My blog pages have two different sets of categories used. These are set to appear as checkboxes, and until this update they appeared in the meta information as checkboxes, which is what I wanted, along with the labels as you would expect.

After this update, they now no longer appear as checkboxes, they appear as the standard select fields, without labels. Whilst this is still functional, it is likely to be more confusing for my client, and I'm not sure why it's changed.

Is there something that's changed in the new version of blog that might be causing this?

Diagnostics report pasted below

Perch: 2.8.15
Production mode: Production (100)
Installed apps: content (2.8.15), assets (2.8.15), categories (2.8.15), perch_blog (5.0), perch_comments (1.0.1), perch_members (1.0.3)
DB driver: PDO
DB tables: locumlive_blog_authors, locumlive_blog_categories, locumlive_blog_comments, locumlive_blog_index, locumlive_blog_posts, locumlive_blog_posts_to_categories, locumlive_blog_posts_to_tags, locumlive_blog_sections, locumlive_blog_tags, locumlive_blogs, locumlive_categories, locumlive_category_counts, locumlive_category_sets, locumlive_comments, locumlive_comments_votes, locumlive_content_index, locumlive_content_items, locumlive_content_regions, locumlive_members, locumlive_members_forms, locumlive_members_member_tags, locumlive_members_sessions, locumlive_members_tags, locumlive_navigation, locumlive_navigation_pages, locumlive_page_templates, locumlive_pages, locumlive_resource_log, locumlive_resource_tags, locumlive_resources, locumlive_resources_to_tags, locumlive_settings, locumlive_user_privileges, locumlive_user_role_privileges, locumlive_user_roles, locumlive_users, poll_administrators, poll_answers, poll_questions
Users: 3
App runtimes:
<?php
    include(PERCH_PATH.'/core/apps/content/runtime.php');
    include(PERCH_PATH.'/addons/apps/perch_blog/runtime.php');
    include(PERCH_PATH.'/addons/apps/perch_comments/runtime.php');
    include(PERCH_PATH.'/core/apps/categories/runtime.php');
    include(PERCH_PATH.'/addons/apps/perch_members/runtime.php');
?>
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Mallen Baker

Mallen Baker 0 points

  • 5 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Which version did you update from? Can you show us your post template?
Mallen Baker

Mallen Baker 0 points

5 years ago

Updated Blog from version 4.6.

Post template below.

 <perch:categories id="channels" set="channels">
<perch:category id="catTitle" type="text" label="Channel" display-as="checkboxes" suppress="true" />
<perch:if id="catTitle" value="social work">
    <div class="catSocial">
</perch:if>
<perch:if id="catTitle" value="nurses">
    <div class="catNurses">
</perch:if>
<perch:if id="catTitle" value="mental health">
    <div class="catMH">
</perch:if>
<perch:if id="catTitle" value="allied health professionals">
    <div class="catAHP">
</perch:if>
<perch:if id="catTitle" value="all locums">
    <div class="catAll">
</perch:if>
</perch:categories>

    <perch:categories id="categories" set="blog"><perch:category id="catTitle" type="text" /></perch:categories></div>
 <br><br>

               <h1><perch:blog id="postTitle" type="text" label="Title" required="true" order="1" size="xl" /></h1> 

               <perch:if exists="postSubTitle">
                <h2 class="article_post_subtitle"><perch:blog id="postSubTitle" type="text" label="Sub-Headline" order="1" required="false" size="xl" help="Use for double-headline stories, such as interviews." /></h2>
               </perch:if>

               <p class="date">Published on <perch:blog id="postDateTime" type="date" label="date" format="jS F Y" order="9" divider-before="Meta information" /></p>  
               <perch:if exists="image">
                <div class="img_caption">
                    <img src="<perch:blog id="image" type="image" label="Lead Image (670px by 385px)" order="4" width="670" height="385" crop="true" required="false" />" alt="<perch:blog id="imageDescription" type="text" label="Lead Image Description" required="false" order="5" />" />
                  </div>  
               </perch:if>
                 <div class="standfirst"><perch:blog id="standfirst" type="textarea" label="First para" editor="tinymce" html="true" required="false" order="3" /></div>

                 <div class="portion">
                <perch:blog id="postBody1" type="textarea" label="Article - First Part" description="The first part of the article; this is the part that comes before the twitter quote" editor="tinymce" html="true" order="6" />
               </div>

               <perch:if exists="postQuote">
                   <div class="twitter_quote">
                   <img src="images/quote.png" id="quote" alt="Quote" title="Quote">
                   <h2>"<perch:blog id="postQuote" type="text" required="false" label="Twitter Quote" order="7" />"</h2>

                   <a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-text="<perch:blog id="postQuote" type="text" required="false" label="Twitter Quote" />" data-size="large" data-count="none">Tweet</a>
                     <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^https:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');</script>
                   <p>You can edit before sending</p>
                   </div>
               </perch:if>

                 <div class="portion">
                <perch:blog id="postBody2" type="textarea" label="Article - Second Half" description="The second half of the article; both sections envelope Twitter quote" editor="tinymce" html="true" order="8" required="false" />
               </div>
               <perch:categories id="categories" set="blog" label="Article types" display-as="checkboxes" suppress="true">
    <a href="archive.php?cat=<perch:category id="catSlug" type="slug" />">
        <perch:category id="catTitle" type="text" />
    </a>
</perch:categories>
                <perch:categories id="channels" set="channels" label="Channels" display-as="checkboxes" suppress="true">
    <a href="archive.php?cat=<perch:category id="catSlug" type="slug" />">
        <perch:category id="catTitle" type="text" />
    </a>
</perch:categories>
<perch:blog id="image" type="image" label="Lead Image" width="220" height="126" crop="true" suppress="true" />
<perch:blog id="image" type="image" label="Lead Image" width="320" height="200" crop="true" suppress="true" />
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Your perch:categories tags appear to be missing the label attribute, hence the lack of labels.
Mallen Baker

Mallen Baker 0 points

5 years ago

OK - You only mentioned the label, but I've worked out for myself that the checkboxes attribute also needed to be moved to both the categories tag and the individual category tag. It's worth noting that what I had before worked fine until the update, so something changed in terms of how this works.

Thanks for the help.