ACF Form – Front end form save as a draft with required fields

• hello.tenika

• July 14, 2017 at 11:44 pm

I have a form with two buttons (submit and save). The submit button sets the entry in pending status and the save button sets the entry in draft status.

The only problem I have is that most of my fields are required and when I select the save button, it requires the user to fill out all the required fields before selecting save or submit.

I am not sure how to bypass the required fields so that the entry/post could save as a draft. Is this possible?

Any resources and help would help.

Thanks!

• Chris LaFay

• September 28, 2017 at 5:21 am

@hello-tenika – were you ever able to figure this out? I am about to run up on the exact same issue myself. Thanks!

• Chris LaFay

• October 3, 2017 at 7:47 am

For anyone else that stumbled upon this, I followed some instructions that one of the help desk guys gave me

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For this kind of requirement, you could set the post_status on the acf_form() to ‘draft’ so that any changes made to the form will not be required to pass validation. You could then create some custom logic within the acf/validate_save_post to ignore all the errors if the post status is ‘draft’. The final step will be to hook into the acf/save_post to determine if all the fields have been filled and then change the post_status to publish.

Please take a look at the following resources that may help:

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-save_post/
** https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-validate_save_post/ **

I hope this info helps.

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I followed the instructions in the item I have asterisks around. I created a “True/False” field that stated: “Are you ready to validate your application?” If that is FALSE, I clear all errors with acf_reset_validation_errors()

• ninobysa

• July 30, 2018 at 11:59 pm

Hello Chris, I try to use acf_reset_validation_errors() inside acf/validate_save_post.

I can see the request to admin-ajax.php and it returns {"success":true,"data":{"valid":1,"errors":0}} but the error messages still appear and the post isn’t saved.

I have set post_status to draft and I have this :

add_action('acf/validate_save_post', 'clear_all_errors', 10, 0);
function clear_all_errors() {
   acf_reset_validation_errors();
}

Can you share some code about how you did it ?

EDIT : It was because now ACF use the required on inputs

I’ve added formnovalidate on my submit button and it solved my issue.