Reply To: CPT Select Field, AJAX Update Another and Show in Admin?

• graphix

• April 4, 2019 at 1:52 am

I figured it out. Basically, in the AJAX response I iterated through each of the post ID’s of the Questions post type and added them to the select field of the post object ACF field as an <option>, which successfully populates the post object <ul> visible to admins after the Exam post is published (in theory, you could also add a <li> to the <ul> for each question if you needed to display it to the admin, but I didn’t).

$.post(ajaxurl, examData, function(response) {
	var questionSelect = $('select#acf-field_5c9b994d45a1a');
	for(i=0; i<response.length; i++) {
		var question_item = '<option value="'+response[i]+'" selected="selected" data-i="' + i + '">'+response[i]+'</option>';
		questionSelect.append(question_item);
	}
	$('#publish').click(); //Save the Exam Post
	console.log(response);
}, "json");