Reply To: Dynamically Populate Repeater Field with Users

• John Huebner

• November 22, 2017 at 12:24 am

There isn’t enough information to give an exact answer, but in general you can pre-populate a repeater this way.

// this filter has the field key of the repeater field
add_filter('acf/load_value/key=field_123456', 'my_repeater_values', 20, 3);
function my_repeater_values($value, $post_id, $field) {
  
  // generate rows of the repeater
  // see next code snippet

  return $value;
}

The value you generate needs to be a nested array

// $value format
$value = array(
  // you add a nested array for each row
  array(
    // this nested array holds the field key => value pairs for each sub field
    'field_234567' => 'value of sub field 1',
    'field_345678' => 'value of sub field 2'
  ),
  // second row of repeater
  array(
    // this nested array holds the field key => value pairs for each sub field
    'field_234567' => 'value of sub field 1',
    'field_345678' => 'value of sub field 2'
  ),
  // etc....
)

this does not include any checking. For example, you probably do not want to overwrite existing values/rows and want to add new rows when new users are added. I also don’t know exactly what information you want to store.

However, I would probably store the commission information you want to store as a custom field on the user profile page in a field group that is only available to site admins and then get the information from there when I need it.