{"id":987083,"date":"2015-07-16T09:58:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T16:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/undefined-get_current_screen-preventing-use-of-events-in-custom-field\/"},"modified":"2015-07-20T16:16:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T23:16:36","slug":"undefined-get_current_screen-preventing-use-of-events-in-custom-field","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/undefined-get_current_screen-preventing-use-of-events-in-custom-field\/","title":{"rendered":"undefined get_current_screen preventing use of events in custom field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using the CMB2 plugin to define a custom field in which editors can select an event. I&#8217;m hooking the new_cmb2_box() code to the cmb2_init hook as recommended.<\/p>\n<p>However, when I perform any query (I&#8217;m using tribe_get_events but the same applies for get_posts) to get the events to populate the field, I get this error:<\/p>\n<p>Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_current_screen() in \/var\/www\/html\/young-hackney\/public\/wp-content\/plugins\/the-events-calendar\/src\/Tribe\/Query.php on line 283<\/p>\n<p>I found this related thread, but it&#8217;s not very helpful:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"3OTVZbeNvL\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/events-calendar-pro-fatal-error-call-to-undefined-function-get_current_screen\/\">Events Calendar Pro fatal error Call to undefined function get_current_screen()<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Events Calendar Pro fatal error Call to undefined function get_current_screen()&#8221; &#8212; \" src=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/events-calendar-pro-fatal-error-call-to-undefined-function-get_current_screen\/embed\/#?secret=KI5tTlKYZe#?secret=3OTVZbeNvL\" data-secret=\"3OTVZbeNvL\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I realise this call to get_current_screen is with code hooked to pre_get_posts, which serves the vital purpose of amending the query to get events in the right way. But I&#8217;m struggling to see how I can populate this custom field. I&#8217;m working on it still, but if you have any ideas that&#8217;d be great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-987083","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>undefined get_current_screen preventing use of events in custom field -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/undefined-get_current_screen-preventing-use-of-events-in-custom-field\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"undefined get_current_screen preventing use of events in custom field -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi there, I&#8217;m using the CMB2 plugin to define a custom field in which editors can select an event. 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