Reply To: Loss of Repeater Field Data when Rearranging Layouts in Flexible Content

• piotku

• November 22, 2023 at 4:49 am

I confirm – it is still a thing.

It happens for different field setups – I’m still doing a more through investigation of the issue.

The problem that was reported to me recently was an editor using a simple flexible section (text field, textarea, button + repeater containing only one select input per row) – one day the data is there and the next day the whole section has a structure (so I see lets say 6 repeater rows) but all is empty, even fields marked as required.

Using a DB backup I noticed that the sections order was changed between the days – so it could support this idea suggested initially by wplus.

And no John Huebner – there is no conditional logic for this section.

So far (in my investigation) I can see that the data for this section seems to be still in the DB but ACF does not see it to fill the forms with the values.

I have:
ACF Pro Version 6.2.3
WordPress 6.4.1
PHP Version 8.1.23
max_input_vars 10000 (which is not exceeded by the edited page)
+ reasonable log max_execution_time & max_input_time