Reply To: Programmatically inserting field with update_field() does not at _field_key meta

• trainoasis

• March 3, 2018 at 1:28 am

Hey!

Typo, sorry. It’s update_field() of course and I’m setting basic text field value, so it’s a string.

Really at a loss here after a few hours of digging around 🙂

So, to write it down further (perhaps I find something odd now that I write it for someone else):

$email = get_field($fields['org_email'], $ID); // $ID here is OK (printed in email that is sent)

$fields is and array with field_id => field_key value pairs. This also seems to be working because a new post is added with the data via update_field() functions.

And post is initially added like this:

$post_id = wp_insert_post(
   array (
       'post_type' => 'my_post_type',
       'post_title' => 'Dynamic Name here',
       'post_status' => 'pending',
   )
);

// check if basic insertion was successful
if( ! is_numeric($post_id)) {
    return false;
} else { 
        
$fields = lpml_get_acf_fields_key_name_map(); // this is field id => key value pair array

update_field($fields['org_email'], $params_array['org_email'], $post_id); 

This saves the data properly and all, except when I want to get the data via

transition_post_status

action it’s empty (empty string it seems). Is it to early to get this data here?

When using ‘pending_to_publish’ hook for example, data is available …

Is it possible, that values are not properly received because the post prior to this was still “pending” ? When I call update_field() the post was first inserted via wp_insert_post with the “status” => “pending”.