Community/General Info About Unify

Working with Unify Repeatables

Support Staff August 24, 2009

Unify Repeatables are groupings of content that utilize two special classes: unifyRepeatArea and unifyRepeat. By applying the unifyRepeatArea class to a container, you create an area that can hold multiple content arrays with the unifyRepeat class applied to them. The example below shows the proper arrangement.

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All unifyRepeat elements must be inside of a unifyRepeatArea wrapper. This wrapper must be a block-level element, and will restrict the movement of unifyRepeat elements to within its boundary

In the Unify visual editor:

  • Click-drag on a repeatable element to drag it to a new location within the repeatable area.
  • Hover on a repeatable element and click the “X” icon to delete that individual repeatable element.
  • Hover on a repeatable element and click-drag the copy icon to drag a new copy of that repeatable element. You may then click the update now icon to open the editing interface. There you may edit the individual content elements of that element, creating a new/unique content entry in the array.

 

 

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Jaron R. Ballard

Hello, I'm having issues with unify not recognizing my repeatable areas. I did my best to make sure that the markup was correct. Take a look below to see if I'm just full of crap though. is something wrong here?

<div class="unifyRepeatArea">

            <div class="threeCol unifyRepeat">

                <h3 class="red">Rainbow Springs Ranch</h3>

                <p>E 1601 Elioka Lake Road / Phone: 509-276-8552 / Fax :509-276-8725<br />

                Website: www.rainbowspringsranch.com / Email: rainbowspringsbb@aol.com</p>

            </div>

            <div class="threeCol unifyRepeat">

                <h3 class="red">The Serenity Inn</h3>

                <p>N 21516 Felspar Road / Phone: 509-276-1844 / Fax: 509-276-9004<br />

                Website: www.theserenityinn.com / Fax: info@theserenityinn.com</p>

            </div>

            <div class="threeCol unifyRepeat">

                <h3 class="red">Look Lake Motel</h3>

                <p>3945 Hwy 292 / Phone: 509-233-2916 / Fax: 509-233-2916<br />

                Emaili: loonlakemoteladmin@qwestoffice.net</p>

            </div>

            <div class="threeCol unifyRepeat">

                <h3 class="red">Quality Inn Oakwood</h3>

                <p>7919 North Division / Phone: 509 467-4900 / Fax: 509-467-4933<br />

                Website: qualityinnoakwood.com / Email: ruthmoss@comcast.net</p>

            </div>

</div>

January 09, 2010 03:20 pm.
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Crystal Silver

Is it possible to place non-matching unifyRepeat blocks within a single unifyRepeatArea container? For example, say I wanted to have a list header and a list item, both of which would be allowed as repeatable and sortable, but I didn't want to put the unifyRepeat class on the whole block but on specific block-level containers within the larger block. Or, another example, say I wanted a repeatable heading, a repeatable text area, and a repeatable blockquote area, all of which can be duplicated/repeated, but they are not always in the same order. I guess what I'm asking is this: can I put a unifyRepeat class on two different block-level elements that both occur inside of a single unifyRepeatArea element and can they be sorted independently of each other, or will that cause the universe to implode? 

November 18, 2010 01:00 pm.
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Support Staff
Unit Interactive

Yes Crystal, you can add the unifyRepeat class on any block level elements inside a unifyRepeatArea. The elements with unifyRepeat class don't have to be the same elements. (We may add Universe imploding in a future release.)

 

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Ryan Rushing 

Support Specialist for Unify 

Unit Interactive

January 17, 2011 01:04 pm.
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Orhan

Hello,

 

What i understand from this i can create a block with all informations in it then i can dublicate that block in a page right?

 

So this dublicate not means every repeatable block are repeating them self not for every each page (page1, page2...) they repeating for a single page?

 

I hope i explained good enough :) thank you for your time.

May 14, 2011 05:31 am.
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Support Staff
Unit Interactive

Yes, that's correct. Each repeatable element is only for that page. Page 2, page 3, etc, will not be affected when you copy an element on Page 1.

 

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Ryan Rushing 

Support Specialist for Unify 

Unit Interactive

May 16, 2011 11:38 am.
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Orhan
Thank you for this answer. Everything is clear now :)
May 16, 2011 01:57 pm.
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Orhan

Hello,

 

Delete function on repeated elements is not working. When i click to cross button a modal box is coming up and when i click to delete button nothing is happening then when i click to cancel button modal box is going away then cross delete button is not working.

May 19, 2011 06:26 am.
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Orhan

Ok i see an update for this but it is pointing to Chrome. Im using Firefox. Anyway i will update see what happens.

May 19, 2011 07:10 am.
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Orhan

Ok i updated to latest unify version but nothing is change. I have tried with Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4, Chrome 11 etc. But still don't know why is not working.

May 19, 2011 09:50 am.
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Support Staff
Unit Interactive

As of version 1.3.16, there is a known issue with moving and duplicating repeatables in IE9. We're working on fixing this, and it will be out in a future release. All other browsers (even other versions of IE) should handle them fine. Let us know if you're having any problems.

July 21, 2011 08:52 am.
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erinther

In firefox it drags content outside the repeatable area and ruins all the design.

August 02, 2011 01:24 pm.
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Support Staff
Unit Interactive

Have you double-checked all your tags and make sure they are closed properly? If not, please try that, and if that doesn't work please go ahead and create a ticket so we can take a look.

August 22, 2011 09:23 am.
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Rick Lecoat

Guys, am I right in thinking that Unify Repeat Areas and Repeat Groupings are subject to the same restrictions as regular Unify elements with regard to PHP includes? (ie. I CAN have repeatables inside a PHP include, but CANNOT have any PHP includes inside a repeatable area or grouping)?

November 08, 2011 06:26 am.
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Support Staff
Unit Interactive

That's correct, Rick!

November 08, 2011 08:38 am.