Reply To: Populate / Edit Taxonomy Fields on an Edit Screen

• John Huebner

• September 4, 2020 at 1:37 am

Yes, this is possible, but complicated, and I don’t have any specific code to share.

For the first bit, populating fields when a term is selected, you need to write JavaScript that makes an ajax request to get and populate the fields when the tax field changes. https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/javascript-api/. There are some examples of doing similar things here (some work, some do not) https://github.com/Hube2/acf-dynamic-ajax-select-example.

You’ll also need to create an acf/prepare_field filter that will load these fields’ values with current values from the term when a post is edited to reflect any changes made from another post.

For the second part you need to create an acf/save_post filter that takes the submitted values and updated the term.