Reply To: Understanding the relationship between repeating fields and database entries

• John Huebner

• December 30, 2021 at 12:36 pm

A field group is a post in the CPT acf-field-group

A field is a post in the CPT acf-field. The parent post of this post it acf-field-group post that it is attached to.

Every field has 2 entries in the db, assuming the field name “field”
There is an entry with the meta_key “field” that contains the data and an entry with the meta_key “_field” and this contains the field key reference for this field.

For a repeater field the entry for “field” is the number of rows in the repeater.

Each sub field of each row has its own 2 entries. The meta key for each sub field is
“{repeater_field_name}_{row_index}_{sub_field_name}” which has a corresponding field key reference stored at “_{repeater_field_name}_{row_index}_{sub_field_name}”