Add unique name field for Flexible Content Field

• Thomas

• January 20, 2014 at 10:26 pm

For a better overview if all/most Flexible Content Fields are collapsed it would be great to have not only the name of the Layout but also a name for this element.

E.g. if you create an element for a text area with the WYSIWYG-Field that you will use twice or more on a page and the elements are collapsed you can’t identify which element contains specific text.

How this could look like:
The “Layout Name” field is a standard field for this element and the input is show in the header

This is the look if all elements are collapsed

• Elliot

• January 21, 2014 at 5:42 pm

Hi @Thomas

Thanks for the feature request, however I’m not sure how this could be added into the core without bloating the settings UI.

Perhaps this would be better left as a custom JS script?
The following tutorial shows how you can listen for an acf/setup_fields event and run JS on any new HTML added to the page via ACF.
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/tutorials/adding-custom-javascript-jquery-for-fields/

You could look at the input value, and then append it to the layout handle.

Thanks
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• Thomas

• January 23, 2014 at 8:05 pm

Thanks Elliot,

this helped me and now I have a great overview over my Flexible Content elements.

Thomas

• jvwrx

• February 26, 2018 at 10:55 am

Updated URL is https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/adding-custom-javascript-fields/