Hi @acfbigfan
Can you elaborate more on this ‘text area’ field? Is this field part of teh same field group of zip_file? If so, can you look at the source code to see if the zip_file field is created?
If the ‘text area’ field is part of another field group, then for some reason, ACF is finding the wrong field group for this post_id parameter.
May I ask what the $post_id value is?
If it is not a real post, you will have to specify the field group IDs manually like in the tutorial. This is missing from your code.
Thanks
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