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Hello.
I have a channel with three Event Helper fields. I’m trying to display them on the front end of my site. I’m finding that if use the {custom_fields} tag pair to loop through my custom fields, they display correctly if I just use “{display_field}” like this:
{if event_helper}
{display_field}
{/if}
but if I try to use a Bootstrap datepicker, or want to display the field value another way, then {field_data} just returns the Unix timestamp (which I could convert with a plugin).
The problem is that it for one of the fields, the {field_data} tag is just visible in the field. Any idea why? I can’t see the reason why, or see the difference between the different field types.
Also - a separate but related issue - when I switch a date field to an Event Helper field, or vice versa, I’ll get an error like this:
SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'field_id_96' in 'exp_channel_data':
ALTER TABLE `exp_channel_data` CHANGE `field_id_96` `field_id_96` INT(10)
ee/legacy/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_connection.php:122
I guess it’s because date fields are called field_dt_XX rather than field_id_XX, but Event helper fields are called field_id_XX. Anything you can do about this, or is an EE bug?
It gets worse as by switching a field from a date type to an Event Helper type, I can actually lose all the field data altogether - the columns in the exp_channel_data table disappear completely, and it then borks search in the control panel and other issues
(I’m on the latest version of EE and event helper, though this is a site I upgraded from EE 2.5.2 - I had to change some of the fieldtypes in the database as I was getting errors all the time. Not ideal but possible that’s the source of some of the issues).
Appreciate any help you can offer.
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