acf_reset_validation_errors() does not work on front end forms.

• influencebydesign

• May 17, 2018 at 11:53 am

I need to be able to conditionally skip validation on a front end form.

The documenation states that you can use a combination of acf/validate_save_post and acf_rest_validation_errors() to conditionally skip validation, but acf_reset_validation_errors() isn’t respected by acf_form().

Thanks for any help,

• influencebydesign

• May 17, 2018 at 12:09 pm

I’ve additionally tried circumventing validation using

add_filter(‘acf/validation_value’, __return_true());

This doesn’t seem to work for required fields on the acf_form as well.

• influencebydesign

• May 18, 2018 at 2:06 pm

In 5.7.0-beta3 I’m able to disable the javascript validation by changing the value of acf.validation.active to false.

This combined with acf_reset_validation_errors() allows me to submit incomplete forms conditionally, ignoring required fields.

• mtisolutions

• May 25, 2018 at 3:38 am

This seems like a bug… I’ve been trying to do the same thing for 2 days using the documentation and seeing the same as the above.

How did you set the value of acf.validation.active? Is this done in your function hooked to the acf/validate_save_post action?

• influencebydesign

• May 25, 2018 at 4:32 am

acf.validation.active is a javascript variable so you need to change it with javascript.

• Nick Kind

• May 29, 2019 at 9:40 am

My apologies!

So, although I have done those JS measures, what I can also should do is use the hook

acf_reset_validation_errors();

I can do this based on a query string which means if the form is save for later – it does not validate, but if I want to fully submit, we run validation.

I get it now!

acf_reset_validation_errors() is pretty powerful in this situation.

NK