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23rd Mar '23
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Looping Through a Cloneable Meta Box Sub Field in Bricks

This Pro tutorial shows how a custom query type can be set up in Bricks to render YouTube videos (via the built-in Video element) whose IDs are taken from value of a cloneable sub field of a group field.

We shall first loop through the group field (functionality built in Bricks) and inside that, loop through the sub-field (made possible via custom query type) i.e., make nested query loops.

Scenario:

CPT: course

Meta Box field group:

events field being populated on a course post:

Structure of single course template:

Output on the frontend:

We shall ensure that if the video_id sub field is empty, the entire videos Section does not get rendered.

Step 1

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