Questions tagged [globals]
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Can I define and use global variables within content fields?
I'd like to set a variable like "totalCustomers" and then use this throughout our content in different pages and content blocks so that there is one source of truth. Is that possible?
e.g. I ...
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Globals disappeared/Queue Failed — Propagating global sets
In desperate need of some help!
I noticed on one of my multi-sites, 5 out of 8 sites have items missing in the Globals sidebar..
When I manually type in the URL to view one of the global items I get: ...
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Get global variable value PHP
In twig, I can get the value this way,
globalWebsite.freeTrialPeriodDays
I need to get this value in PHP, but cleary this won't work;
$trialDays = \Craft::$app->getGlobals()->getSetByHandle('...
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Troubleshooting General Slowness?
We have a Global page that has about 10 tabs with a bunch of fields each. The thing takes between 50 and 80 seconds to load. The debugger shows that it fires off over 9000 events and makes almost 900 ...
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How to directly access translated variables by language
I have a localized, two language site (en and fr) that I have a translated global variable set for. My question is: is there a way on a Craft 3 template to directly access a translation of a variable ...
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Manipulating globals for multi-site?
I'm working on one Craft project with two sites (which have one shared page that is translated and possibly more in the future.) Is there a way to make the global header & footer for Site 2 ...
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How do I get the siteName in a module (Craft 3)
In templates I can do something like {{siteName}}. But how do I retrieve this in a module?
I've tried:
Craft::$app->config->siteName
I can grab my custom globals via Craft::$app->globals, but ...
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Error when setting field length on global
I have set up several globals to store the URLs of a company’s social media accounts. Each one is a plain text field, and each one is limited to 254 characters.
This works fine with three of them, but ...
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Is there a way to eager-load fields in a global set?
I use a header global set to store various thing about my site header, including the company's logo.
I use it in my template like this:
{{ header.globalSetsHeaderLogo.one()logo.getImg() }}
Any idea ...
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Accessing global field values in site loop
I have a drop down select that I am populating with sites.
I've added a lightswitch field (handle 'showInDropDown') to the global set 'siteInfo' with the hope of getting the lightswitch value per site ...
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Show a list of pages but hide the current page from the list
My setup
I'd like to show a navigation menu listing all my page entries.
In my layout file, I include a template for the navigation:
_layout.twig:
<main>
<section id="nav">
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Use Craft globals for CSS styles
Is it possible to pass a value from Craft global setting into a CSS/SCSS file? So for example I want to be able to allow the end user to customise colours and fonts without having to include it inline....
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Updating global set from controller
This is my code:
$giveaway = Craft::$app->globals->getSetByHandle('promotions');
$giveaway->giveawayName = "New Name";
$success = Craft::$app->globals->saveSet($giveaway);
return($...
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What is appropriate for a Global field in terms of site speed?
I'm worried that if I put too much in globals, I will impact the speed of my site by a lot.
For example, I was thinking of putting content in there like matrices for team members (text and image), ...
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Can I use a Global Variable for date/time?
The goal is to create a global variable that allows the user to specify how they would like to format the date/time for entries. I'd like to remove the hardcoded format shown here:
{{ entry.postDate|...
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Craft 3 Cannot Save Global Set
I am playing around with Craft 3 and for the life of me cannot get it to save an element programmatically.
I am trying to save a Global Set from a module like so:
$config = [
'name' => "My ...
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Access table from Globals in script
In the Globals I have a field which is of type table. I was trying to access this table in the javascript in order to get the values of particular rows.
<script>
var myTable = "{{ ...
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Translating checkbox labels
I'm trying to translate the labels for a global checkbox field in my front-end templates like in this post: Is there a way to have checkbox field labels translatable?.
This looked promising but I can'...
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SEOmatic and Global Variables
We have a Craft site with nearly 800 entries. For SEO purposes we need to change the page title and page (SEO) description for each entry, a laborious task to say the least.
Is there a way to have, ...
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Accessing global set's field gives object that couldn't be converted to string
I've been using globals many times but this is my first time encounter with such problem. Let's go from the bottom. I have two global sets with handles tax and company. The Tax set have only one plain ...
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How can I make related entries and globals part of the search considerations?
How can I make related entries and globals part of the search considerations?
So I have a website search bar that searches the whole website.
Within some jobs pages there are some global elements ...
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How to edit a global footer link
In the footer at the bottom of my page, www.soldierswish.org, there are two links for 501c3 and Form 990. Is there no way to edit these from the GUI? How do I edit these links?
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Getting image url from globals asset field
I can retrieve only the image title from the below code, I can't see why the image URL is showing as empty? its a global handle 'brand' and asset field 'logo':
{% set image = brand.logo.one %}
<a ...
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Comparing date field object with global variable "now" gives unexpected result
The goal is to show a word when date field qualifies for tomorrow or today instead of numeric date.
Setting and calling variables:
{% set deliveryDate = order.deliveryDate %}
{% set tomorrow = now|...
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Global field duplicated
I have two sites. Everytime I add global field content (slogan for example) it adds the same to the second site, and vice-versa. Anyone has any idea how to stop that?
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Get globals from other sites
How would I get the global variables associated to other sites?
For example, in an instance where I have three websites under the group languages for the English, Spanish, and French versions. I have ...
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Best practise to use translate in admin panel
I am using a lot of translation with the |t / |translate filter. But the client wants to be able to edit those translations in the admin panel.
So, I thought about different ways to achieve that. ...
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Defining TwigExtension globals in Craft 3
A long time ago I asked how I could utilise the getGlobal method in Craft 2.x.
I'd like to know how best to do this in Craft 3?
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Access global field content
What could be the reason for this error when I’m targeting a global field?:
Impossible to access an attribute ("footer") on a boolean variable ("").
I created a global set Footer with a matrix ...
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Saving fields to a GlobalSet
Can anyone suggest on how to programatically save fields to a GlobalSet?
I’ve been following this: Programatically Adding Fields to a Layout
But, doesn’t seem to work with a global?
I am doing the ...
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Use Globals in email templates
I’ve set up a few email notifications to be sent to customers, and in the corresponding email templates I’d like to use content from Global fields I’ve created.
But when I use the regular variable {{ ...
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Trying to set an image URL using a global asset field
I've setup a global asset field so that a client can change a placeholder image that gets used throughout their website. I'm using the Imager plugin for my image transforms.
The following image code ...
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Globally share variables
I have 4 main template folders, under the /craft folder (each template folder works for another subdomain).
Now, I do have per template folder, a few variables that I like to have shared amongst all ...
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I want to display entries that have a field that is the same as a field in a global variable
There is a publishMonth (multiselect) and publishYear (radio buttons) field in each article. They do not correspond to an actual date. Each article is is associated with one year, or one or more ...
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Eagerloading Matrix fields resulting in empty array
I'm trying to eager-load a Matrix field with it's blocktype and related field types. For some reason the _eagerLoadedBlockTypeElements are empty arrays.
If I get rid of the with clause on ...
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Use global values in the Entry URL Format field
I'm trying to use global variables in Entry URLs generated by Craft, but they seem to be empty. Not getting any errors as such, just null.
My Entry URL format looks like this:
{{siteDefaults....
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Is There a Way to Add Tabs in Global Fields?
I see that it is not possible to add tabs to Global fields (unlike, say, with entries, where one can organize one's fields into different tab groups).
Is there a way (without editing the core files) ...
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Is it Possible to Use Live Preview with Global Settings
I know that out of the box one cannot use Live Preview with Global Settings. I am wondering if it is possible to write a plugin or in some other manner get Live Preview to work with Global Settings.
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Order PDF in back-end error with Globals
I have created a PDF template for orders and this works fine on the front-end. However, when I click to Download PDF through the admin panel in an order. I get an error that:
Variable "companyInfo" ...
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Custom Messages including variables in global field?
Is it possible to setup messages (for transactional emails) as global text fields that include variables such as {{ firstName }}, {{ lastName }}, {{ email }} etc.?
For example:
Custom plugin fires ...
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Create an Array in Twig and loop through fields in global set
So I've created a globals set (socialMedia) with 10 input fields, but this could grow in the future, for clients to add links to various social media accounts. This works fine except that the code for ...
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Does Twigs 'addGlobal' exist in Craft?
I know Craft gives us access to Twigs getTwig template service; so when I attempt to use the addGlobal function like so:
craft()->templates->getTwig()->addGlobal('var', $var);
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Failed to add a custom field in settings
I'm trying to add a global set, with a Matrix and two required fields for a product. This always works.
Now that I am in version 2.6.2791 it fails to add the fields with error:
Warning</b>
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Best Method of Handling Repeated Content Within Existing Fields?
We are trying to find the best solution for handling repeated content within existing Fields in the CMS.
That is, there are bits of information which could be used nearly anywhere within existing ...
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Using a Dropdown field in a Matrix to parse a global
I have two globals setup for affiliate and compensated type language - using Matrix and a dropdown I'm trying to find a way to let the user add this language in a new block.
I cannot for the life of ...
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Accessing global sets from Element API
Is there an easy way to access global sets from an Element API endpoint, so its content can be included in the JSON response?
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How to get field values from Global Set using Element API plugin?
I'm pulling data from a Global Set using the Element API plugin and am wondering if there's a cleaner way to write the transformer function?
My craft/config/elementapi.php file looks like this:
<...
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How can I get a field's value from a global based on a url segment?
I have a rich text field with a handle of myTextField that I have included in a global set called firstGlobalSet.
What If I created another global set called secondGlobalSet and included the same ...
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Update globals Matrix via a plugin
We are working on a plugin that needs to update the contents of a Matrix field within Globals. I've found little snippets of code but none that do exactly this. Can anyone provide some code or point ...
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Can I use isEditable() on a global?
I have a headline global.
I am trying to see if headline is editable by using this code block, but it is not working.
Can I use isEditable() with my headline global?
{% if headline.isEditable() %}
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