Conditional fields with conditions in OR - a workaround

The CMS Questions
1

Hi, I know that conditional fields with more than one condition works by design in “AND”. And I also know there’s a plugin to extend the behaviour.

But I wonder if it could be ok to duplicate the field to match the specific condition. My case is:

  • I have 3 “post_type”(s): “post”, “newmusic”, “news”

  • “abstract” field should be visibile only it post_type = “post” and post_type = “newmusic”

  • so I created a blueprint like this

            abstract: 
          label: Abstract
          type: blocks
          default:
            - type: text
          when:
            post_type: post
        abstract: 
          label: Abstract
          type: blocks
          default:
            - type: text
          when:
            post_type: newmusic

…but it doesn’t work, as when the post type is “post” the fields remains hidden. Any other suggestion? Thanks.

2

Fields with the same name are not possible, why don’t you want to use the plugin?

3

well… i’m trying to avoid using plugins as I’ve run into incompatibility issues in the past. Kirby goes forward… sometimes plugins won’t follow. Moreover I couldn’t find GitHub - rasteiner/k3-whenquery: Conditionally show fields and sections. Better. among the K4 plugins listen on the official site.

4

That can indeed happen.

If you absolutely don’t want to use the plugin, use two different field names, e.g. abstract_post and abstract_newmusic. Then you can call these fields conditionally in your template, depending on post type.

Example code:

<?php if (in_array($page->postType(), ['post', 'newmusic']) && $page->{'abstract_' . $page->postType()}()->isNotEmpty()): ?>
<div><?= $page->{'abstract_' . $page->postType()}() ?></div>
<?php endif ?>