Hi @rgdesign
Then I think you need to check if the template is called from the acf/save_post hook or not.
What I have in my mind is that I think you can use the global $_POST variable to check if there’s a posted data or not, which mean that the template is called from a saving process or it just included from another template. Maybe something like this:
<?php
// Check posted data
if( isset($_POST['acf']['field_1234567890abc']) ){
$the_shortcode = '[shortcode]';
} else {
$the_shortcode = do_shortcode('[shortcode]');
}
?>
The shortcode: <? echo $the_shortcode; ?>
Where ‘field_1234567890abc’ is the field key that is posted.
If that doesn’t work, I then you need to pass a variable to the template instead. This page should give you more idea about it: http://keithdevon.com/passing-variables-to-get_template_part-in-wordpress/.
I hope this helps 🙂
