Pre Populate Textfield in Repeater

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  • saschapi

  • March 22, 2018 at 12:53 am

  Hi Guys,

  I have a repeater that has three text fields inside itself.

  ONE of those textfields should be pro polulated by a random number.

  I used this code:

  function my_acf_load_value(   $field ) {
  	
  $field['default_value'] = md5(uniqid(rand(), true));
       return $field;
  }
  add_filter('acf/load_field/name=api-key', 'my_acf_load_value', 10, 3);

  Unfortunately (or as expected if you think about it) if you add 2 or more rows to the repeater in the backend, they all get the same random number. What I want is to generate a new number for each row the editor adds to the repeater.

  How can I accomplish this? Any idea?

  Thanks so much in advance Sascha
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  • John Huebner

  • March 22, 2018 at 6:54 am

  the the accepted reply here https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/unique-pre-populated-repeater-fields/#post-57338
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  • Beee

  • March 22, 2018 at 6:55 am

  I think you need to loop through the repeater instead of applying it to the entire field.
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  • saschapi

  • March 22, 2018 at 10:26 pm

  Hi guys, John’s answer send me in the right direction. I did what the user benjibee said in that thread. It is totally fine for me to generate the keys on save and not on adding a new repeater! Thanks guys 😉