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  • Hi, can you help me please?
    I’ve got a function which hooks into the save post action.
    Unfortunately it only works on creating a new post but not when updating an existing post.
    What do i have to do make that happen?

    I would like to have the taxonomy term “ha_p_kategorie” changed based on the true/false field “ha_p_gastspiel” and
    the taxonomy term “ha_p_jahrgang” changed when the date in date picker field “ha_p_premiere” is changed.

    This is my code:

    function change_produktion_content($post_id) {
        if ( get_post_type( $post_id ) == 'ha_produktion' ) {
    		
    		// update taxonomy term based on true/false field ha_p_gastspiel
    		$gastspiel = get_post_meta($post_id,'ha_p_gastspiel',true);
    		if ($gastspiel == '1') {
    			wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, 'Gastspiel', 'ha_p_kategorie' );
    		} else {
    			wp_remove_object_terms( $post_id, 'Gastspiel', 'ha_p_kategorie' );
    		};
    		
    	    // update another taxonomy term based on date picker field ha_p_premiere
    	    $premierendatum = get_post_meta($post_id,'ha_p_premiere',true);
    	    $jahrgang = date("Y", strtotime($premierendatum));
    	    update_field('ha_p_jahrgang', $jahrgang);
    	    wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, $jahrgang, 'ha_p_jahrgang' );
    		
    	    $my_post = array();
    	    $my_post['ID'] = $post_id;
    	
    	    remove_action('acf/save_post', 'change_produktion_content');
    	    wp_update_post( $my_post );
    	    add_action('acf/save_post', 'change_produktion_content');
        }
    }
    add_action('acf/save_post', 'change_produktion_content');

    What am i doing wrong? or missing?

  • If you want to change things when a post is updated based on a value changing then you need to have you filter run before ACF updates the DB with the new values by setting the priority to something less than 10

    
    add_action('acf/save_post', 'change_produktion_content', 1);
    

    Then you can compare the value in $_POST[‘acf’] with the value in the DB.

  • Hi John, i am super sorry!

    I had some faulty code above all that ACF stuff which i didn’t copied here.
    Just a little “return;” that broke everything.
    I am sorry for taking your time but also thankful for your fast reply!

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