Reply To: Reassign random Post ID with actual Post ID for new post

• acfbigfan

• November 8, 2013 at 5:01 pm

Thank you for getting back to me. Simply put, I already have a custom form and I am calling the file upload field by calling

acf_form(
    array(
        'post_id' => 'new',
        'form' => false,
        'field_groups' => array( 30 )
    )
);

As you can see, I am not calling the whole form (<form> tag and submit button), only the fields

'form' => false,

So I can’t use ‘acf/save_post’ because it won’t be triggered. It’s because my custom form uses AJAX to save the data calling POST via jQuery. So I use the following action to save ACF fields (I’ve simplified the field name)

my_save_post($post_ID) {
    update_field('field_text', $_POST['field_text'], $post_ID);
    update_field('field_file', $_POST['field_file'], $post_ID);
}
add_action('save_post', 'my_save_post');

In this case, the field_text is saved, but not field_file because when the file information is inserted as attachment, it doesn’t save the “parent_post” ID correctly and becomes an orphan. And these 3 postmeta rows aren’t created either

META_KEY                     META_VALUE
_uploaded_file               field_689b0ed7249ab
uploaded_file                345
_edit_lock                   1383884182:1

which are created normally if I upload a file when editing a post from the frontend if post_id is assigned.

Thank you!