Reply To: Can a visitor (anonymous user) upload a file from the front end

• locomo

• November 12, 2013 at 7:27 am

Found one more issue that other people might find helpful. The Basic File uploader fails validation if it is a required field. To solve this I hook into “acf/validate_field” like this (let me know if there is a better way):

jQuery(document).on('acf/validate_field', function( e, field ){

	var $field = jQuery(field);

	if( $field.find('input[type="file"]').exists() ) {
		$field.data('validation', true);
				
		if( $field.find('input[type="file"]').val() == '' ) {
			$field.data('validation', false);
		}
	}		

});