acf/load_value/key={key}

• Dave Navarro, Jr.

• January 17, 2019 at 2:50 am

I have a repeater with a readonly text field.

I have a filter with acf/load_value/key={key} and when you add a new repeater field it appears that this filter is not called.

Am I using the correct filter?

• Dave Navarro, Jr.

• January 17, 2019 at 3:09 am

Okay, one problem fixed by changing to the acf/prepare_field/key={key} filter.

Next problem, it’s only called ONCE when the form is loaded.

I am trying to add a readonly timestamp field to each repeater value, but it’s using the timestamp of the form load. I need it to be realtime.

• Dave Navarro, Jr.

• January 17, 2019 at 5:24 am

After a LOT of poking around, I found that ACF does not make ajax calls for non dynamic fields when adding new repeater fields.

The “acf” JavaScript object got me where I needed to be:

acf.addAction("new_field/key=field_5c3f4147608c4", function( field ) {
  //mycode
});

• Dave Navarro, Jr.

• January 17, 2019 at 5:25 am

ps. The Javascript documentation is pretty sparse.