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Not sure how to go about this, but I’m trying to use Safecracker to display a Playa field that’s within a 3 column Matrix field. It’s a single row Matrix. I can get all three columns to display in the Safecracker form, including the Playa field, but I only want a single column (the Playa field) to display without the other 2 columns.

Right now I’m using the

{field:custom_field_name}

input with the name of the Matrix field and that of course displays every column in the Matrix.

How would I go about displaying just a single column?

Thanks!

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Hi, Andy. Mixing and matching Playa and Matrix is one of those times where this is going to be a third party issue. Do you get it to work with Safecracker out of the mix? Have you contacted Brandon to see if he’s ever tried to do this? Moving to the CodeShare Corner for additional community support.

Thanks for the response Sue. What I ended up doing was using jQuery to target and hide the unwanted Matrix columns. It seems to be working in a pinch. Just in case someone else stumbles across this thread here’s the jQuery I’m using to target a single column in a 3 column Matrix:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('th.matrix:nth-child(1),tr.matrix:nth-child(2)').hide();
    $('td.matrix:nth-child(2),th.matrix:nth-child(2)').hide();
    $('td.matrix:nth-child(3),th.matrix:nth-child(3)').hide();
    
});

The above jQuery hides the second and third columns. It also hides the label and field description cells of the first column so that only the field input (in my case a Playa drop down) is displayed.

I might also post the question on Brandon’s site as you suggested. Thanks Sue!

Glad you were able to find a solution.. first I’d heard about mixing and matching this way. 😊