ACF & Gravity Forms Checkbox

• cmoser

• April 15, 2015 at 11:28 am

I am currently creating a website for a client that needs coaches pages. This is an example of a coach page. http://coaches.21daysugardetox.com/coaches/diane-sanfilippo/ I am currently using ACF for all the profile sections. The user can login and update the info from the frontend using the Gravity form add-on. The problem I am running into is with the checkboxes. When you hit submit on the form and go to update again the checkboxes are all back to being blank.

I found this code that allows it to populate on the front end and save the previous selections.

function my_acf_load_field( $field )
{
    $field['choices'] = array(
        'athletes' => 'Athletes',
        'weight' => 'Weight Loss',
        'autoimmunity' => 'Autoimmunity',
        'pregnant' => 'Pregnant/New Moms',
        'diabetes' => 'Diabetes',
        'families' => 'Families',
        'corporate' => 'Corporate Wellness',
        'pescetarian' => 'Pescetarian',
        'large' => 'Large Groups',
        'small' => 'Small Groups',
        'coaching' => '1on1 Coaching'        
    );

    return $field;
}

// acf/load_field - filter for every field
add_filter('acf/load_field', 'my_acf_load_field');

// acf/load_field/type={$field_type} - filter for a specific field based on it's type
add_filter('acf/load_field/type=select', 'my_acf_load_field');

// acf/load_field/name={$field_name} - filter for a specific field based on it's name
add_filter('acf/load_field/name=my_select', 'my_acf_load_field');

// acf/load_field/key={$field_key} - filter for a specific field based on it's name
add_filter('acf/load_field/key=field_550dee65fd2db', 'my_acf_load_field');

The only problem here is the gravity form does not update the actual post on the backend to reflect these checkboxes.

I did find this code that solves the gravity for issue.

add_action("gform_after_submission_1", "acf_post_submission", 10, 2);

function acf_post_submission ($entry, $form)
{
   $post_id = $entry["post_id"];
   $values = get_post_custom_values("specialties", $post_id);
   update_field("field_550dee65fd2db", $values, $post_id);
}

The both fix the two issues I am having but they do not work when I have both of them in the functions.php . They only work when I comment one or the other out. Any suggestions?

Thank You

• James

• June 9, 2016 at 9:21 pm

Hi @cmoser,

Thanks for the post.

I am thinking that as a workaround you could pass the the new $field[‘choice’] values through the second acf_post_submission ($entry, $form) hook.

This will allow you to create a and update the same values through the same function.