Reply To: Interface support for optgroup?

• Elliot

• December 19, 2013 at 10:09 am

Hi @patrickzdb

Thanks for the question. Currently, optgroup functionality is not supported into the UI textarea when editing a field.

This said, you can use a filter called acf/load_field to modify the select field’s choices. This is detailed in the tutorial found here:
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/tutorials/dynamically-populate-a-select-fields-choices/

I will add this feature request to my to-do list and you can expect to see it soon.

But for now, you will need to use this filter to modify the $field[‘choices’]

A normal choices array looks like this:

<?php 

$field['choices'] = array(
	'red' => 'Red',
	'blue' => 'Blue'
);

 ?>

And an optgroup choices looks like this:

<?php 

$field['choices'] = array(
	'Colors' => array(
		'red' => 'Red',
		'blue' => 'Blue'
	),
	'Shades' => array(
		'black' => 'Black',
		'white' => 'White'
	),
);

 ?>

Hope that helps.

Thanks
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