A question and possibly a bug

[Jforrester8596Participant]

Hello. First the possible bug.. when creating a filter for check boxes that have a multi-level parent/child hierarchy, I select the option for child terms to be “unchecked” by default, but no matter what I do, whenever a parent box is checked, it opens all the child levels below it and has them all “checked” as well. Do you know how to fix this?

Also, is there a way to do multistep dropdowns for hierarchical categories? I have hundreds of categories (it’s a vehicle database) and the current WOOF filter I have does a nice mutlistep drop down where I select the vehicle year, then a new dropdown appears of all the vehicle makes (child categories), then when I select the vehicle make a new dropdown appears for all the vehicle models (next level of child categories) and so on.. I can’t seem to figure out how to do that with your plugin. Please advise if this is possible. Thank you in advance.

Josh

[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

Hi,

1. I suspect you mean this option? That is supposed to do that – to hide the child terms, whenever the parent term is unchecked.
When the parent is checked, then all the subcateries get checked as well – but that regardless if this option is enabled or not.

2. I’m afraid not yet. The filters section is at a major rework. Once we can finish that, we will continously add new features – including the dynamically chaning drop-downs.

Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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[Jforrester8596Participant]

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[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

Thank you very much for the details!

I’m afraid I can’t access the site, it requires a .htaccess login. I’m not sure if there is a way to prevent this behavior either, because it is handled programmatically within a function. If I was to recommend a custom code to not check the checkboxes, then it would also prevent opening the parent/child structures, as it is handled at the same time.

You could try maybe this custom code:

add_action('wp_footer', 'asp_api_sample_code');
function asp_api_sample_code() {
	?>
	<script>
	jQuery(function ($) {
		var settingsCheckboxToggle = function ($node) {
			var $parent = $node;
			var $checkbox = $node.find('input[type="checkbox"]');
			var lvl = parseInt($node.data("lvl")) + 1;
			var i = 0;
			while (true) {
				$parent = $parent.next();
				if ($parent.length > 0 &&
					typeof $parent.data("lvl") != "undefined" &&
					parseInt($parent.data("lvl")) >= lvl
				) {
					if ($checkbox.prop("checked")) {
						$parent.removeClass("hiddend");
					} else {
						$parent.addClass("hiddend");
					}
				} else
					break;
				i++;
				if (i > 400) break; // safety first
			}
		}
		$('.asp_option_cat input[type="checkbox"]').off('asp_chbx_change');
		$('.asp_option_cat input[type="checkbox"]').on('asp_chbx_change', function (e) {
			settingsCheckboxToggle($(this).closest('.asp_option_cat'));
			var id = $(this).closest('.asp_w').data('id');
			var instance = $(this).closest('.asp_w').data('instance');
			ASP.api(id, instance, 'searchFor');
		});
	});
	</script>
	<?php
}

It is a replication of the original, but I removd the part where the checkboxes are manipulated. Try adding this custom code to the functions.php in your theme/child theme directory. Before editing, please make sure to have a full site back-up just in case!

Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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