Change type of field from text to select

• Mattia

• January 21, 2021 at 5:06 am

Hello,
I made a change to the field type from “Text”

https://postimg.cc/3yWhhnJx

to “Select”

https://postimg.cc/8jBNm70N

allowing multiple choice

https://i.postimg.cc/RV04WTQp/6.png

Previously I entered the textual values ​​separated by commas

https://postimg.cc/mPm4K04n

By making this change, I realized that it is no longer possible to go back to the values ​​entered in previous posts

https://postimg.cc/ns5JhBCY

For new posts I can view the selection made thanks to the gray marking

https://postimg.cc/jwcyfHJm

is there a way to view old posts by highlighting previously selected fields?

Thanks, Matt

• John Huebner

• January 23, 2021 at 5:20 am

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-load_value/

and convert value from a string to an array

• John Huebner

• January 23, 2021 at 5:21 am

That will only work if all of the values in the string are represented in the new select field.

• Mattia

• January 25, 2021 at 3:51 am

Jhon, thanks for taking your time. Your suggestion shows how to rename a previously entered value and it works (maybe I’ll need it in the future). I think I made the mistake at the beginning of the project a few years ago by not providing the possibility of inserting multiple values ​​for that type of field: I started with a text type field and I continued with that by inserting values ​​separated by commas . I will continue to use it like this for this project. The conversion of the field type from text to select creates the inconvenience that I have exposed in the question and that I cannot solve by myself. Thanks again