Bug in field name and id with repeater

• [email protected]

• May 5, 2019 at 7:43 pm

Hello,

Each field name inputs have an id built using ancestors, row and current key :

<input type="text" id="acf-field_578ba72a39775-row-0-field_5ca8e6c217d33-row-3-field_5cb2d4ea9222c" name="acf[field_578ba72a39775][row-0][field_5ca8e6c217d33]<strong>[row-3]</strong>[field_5cb2d4ea9222c]">

But when I created a new one to add a new row, the row information is a little bit strange … Instead of “row-xx” , I got somthing like ‘5cceaf118c638’, see below …

<input type="text" id="acf-field_578ba72a39775-row-0-field_5ca8e6c217d33-5cceaf118c638-field_5cb2d4ea9222c" name="acf[field_578ba72a39775][row-0][field_5ca8e6c217d33]<strong>[5cceaf118c638]</strong>[field_5cb2d4ea9222c]">

This occurs both in 5.7.xx and 5.8.RC2

Thanks

• John Huebner

• May 6, 2019 at 1:26 am

This is how ACF creates a new row. The index is a temporary unique id that is only used for the new row that will be replaced after updating. It is not a bug, but the way it’s made to work. Is it causing you an issue?

• [email protected]

• May 6, 2019 at 2:30 am

Thanks for the quick answer.
It was causing me an issue because I’m trapping repeater row creation events to maintain a set of data I need to the ‘field sync tool’ I’m developping.

This was based on rows number in id… but found another way to do what I want !