Dynamically populate repeater field with select field

• am_awave

• February 28, 2019 at 6:10 am

I have two repeater fields, an ‘items ordered’ repeater that contains an item select field, and another ‘items shipped’ repeater (that I’m trying to dynamically populate) which will contain the same item select field.

ordered items repeater:

items shipment repeater:

When the shipment form is rendered, I want the item shipment repeater to pre-populate the “item ordered” select field with the selected “item ordered” from the purchase order repeater.

So far I can get the shipment form to create the same number of rows that is in the order form, but I can’t get the select fields to match up, or the item descriptions. The shipment quantity is meant to be filled in by the user. I have also pre-populated the select dropdowns by using an inventory options page.

select pre-population:

function opo_item_select_options( $field ) {	
     $field['choices'] = array();
     if( have_rows('items_from_factory', 'inventory-options') ) {
          while( have_rows('items_from_factory', 'inventory-options') ) { 
               the_row();
               if(get_sub_field('is_module') == false){
                    $value = get_sub_field('item_id');
                    $label = get_sub_field('item_name'); 
                    $field['choices'][ $value ] = $label;
    	        }
           }	        
      }
      return $field;
}
add_filter('acf/load_field/name=opo_item_ordered', 'opo_item_select_options');	
add_Filter('acf/load_field/name=item_shipped', 'opo_item_select_options');

trying pre-populate the repeater with the select:

function load_opo_items_to_ship( $value, $field, $post_id ){
     $opo_id = url_to_postid( get_permalink());

     $value = array();
     if( have_rows('po_information_purchase_order_items', $opo_id) ) {
          while( have_rows('po_information_purchase_order_items', $opo_id) ) { 
               the_row();
               $value[] = array(
                  'item_shipped' => get_sub_field('field_5c1c21500368d'),
                  'item_description' => get_sub_field('field_5c1c21500368d')
               );
          }
     }
     return $value;
}
add_filter('acf/load_value/key=field_5c76cc36ace4a', 'load_opo_items_to_ship', 10, 3);

• am_awave

• February 28, 2019 at 8:17 am

Well I solved the issue. I modified the priority of my filters, and instead of using the field name, I used the field keys. Code ended up like this:

I changed the priority on the select field population function to run before the repeater population

add_filter('acf/load_field/name=item_shipped', 'opo_item_select_options', 9, 1);

function load_opo_items_to_ship( $value, $field, $post_id ){
     $opo_id = url_to_postid( get_permalink());

     $value = array();
     if( have_rows('po_information_purchase_order_items', $opo_id) ) {
          while( have_rows('po_information_purchase_order_items', $opo_id) ) { 
               the_row();
               $value[] = array(
                  'field_5c76cc4bace4b' => get_sub_field('opo_item_ordered'),
	          'field_5c76ccb3ace4c' => get_sub_field('opo_item_description'),
               );
          }
     }
     return $value;
}
add_filter('acf/load_value/key=field_5c76cc36ace4a', 'load_opo_items_to_ship', 10, 3);

• am_awave

• February 28, 2019 at 8:20 am

Well, I solved the issue. I modified the priority of my filters, and instead of using the field name, I used the field keys. Code ended up like this:

I changed the priority on the select field population function to run before the repeater population

add_filter('acf/load_field/name=item_shipped', 'opo_item_select_options', 9, 1);

function load_opo_items_to_ship( $value, $field, $post_id ){
     $opo_id = url_to_postid( get_permalink());

     $value = array();
     if( have_rows('po_information_purchase_order_items', $opo_id) ) {
          while( have_rows('po_information_purchase_order_items', $opo_id) ) { 
               the_row();
               $value[] = array(
                  'field_5c76cc4bace4b' => get_sub_field('opo_item_ordered'),
	          'field_5c76ccb3ace4c' => get_sub_field('opo_item_description'),
               );
          }
     }
     return $value;
}
add_filter('acf/load_value/key=field_5c76cc36ace4a', 'load_opo_items_to_ship', 10, 3);

• uniak

• January 3, 2022 at 11:49 am

Hi, i have got a problem like you. Can you help me about this?