Change/set a datepicker date with Javascript

• [email protected]

• October 7, 2022 at 12:23 pm

The ACF Javascript API does not allow the setting of a datepicker date programmatically.

acf.getField('the_field_id').val([the date]); // does not work
// nor does set()

Nor do any of the usual workarounds to change the value of the jQuery UI datepicker.

Surely they wouldn’t have written a datepicker object where you can’t programmatically change the date?

Does anyone have a workaround?

• John Huebner

• October 9, 2022 at 11:03 am

This might be a bug. I had a similar issue with image fields some time ago. I don’t have a work-a-round. You might want to contact the developer.