"Join title fields" not working

davedesigner · Feb 20th 2019

Creating a new site using Perch: 3.1.4 and PHP 7.2.15

"Join title fields" refuses to work. No matter what character is added to concatenated using this value.

Is this a known bug?

davedesigner · Feb 20th 2019

I switched back to php 7 added a character and it worked. Moved back to PHP 7.2.15 and it stayed.

drewm · Feb 20th 2019

Quote from davedesigner

"Join title fields" refuses to work

What happens?

davedesigner · Feb 20th 2019

With a bit of playing around looks like I need to re-save each list and detail item individually (it's not using edit on one page) before the change takes on that item.

drewm · Feb 20th 2019

Yes, the title is constructed when the item is edited. If you change the settings after creating the title then it will have no effect.

The alternative would be if we calculated every title every time an item is accessed, which would make your site very slow. Or we could update the titles when you change the region settings, which would make saving the region settings very slow. Considering this value will almost never change, it's not usually worth that tradeoff.

drewm Feb 20th 2019