Hi All,
I installed ACF on my AgentPress Real Estate site so I could have Seller Detail fields on the back end, lockbox codes, seller name, seller contact details, etc. It’s a great tool because I can keep these fields from being visible on the front end of the site.
I would like to be able to export the data from these custom fields into an Excel spreadsheet. However when I do export the data, it comes back looking like this: field_52b9b1e32284f, field_52b9b24e22851, field_52b9b22822850, etc.
Is there a way to get the actual data in these custom fields? This would make ACF the perfect solution to exporting listing data for the real estate agents.
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Hi @lazybeaches
What you have pasted, are 3 field keys.
Each field you create in ACF has a unique field key.
Without knowing how or what you ‘exported’, I can’t explain why you have these values. Perhaps you need to select some different settings in your export plugin?
Thanks
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I named a field “Seller Name”
When I go to export the “Seller Name” field, it comes back as the field_52b9b1e32284f instead of the Seller’s name. I want to know how to export the actual data put in the fields of the created custom fields.
I use PhiMind plugin for exporting. I can choose Custom/Meta Field and then choose _seller_name
Hi @lazybeaches
Instead of selecting ‘_seller_name’, please select ‘seller_name’.
The first is a reference value to the field_object which explains why you are seeing a field key instead of a value.
Thanks
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I just did an export of the field you mentioned and received “FALSE” in all the fields in that column. I chose seller_name, seller_email, and all the other custom fields that I create that don’t have the underscore in front of it.
What would cause a “FALSE” result for all the fields requested? When I go into the listings, these fields do contain data.
Just to be clear, the standard WordPress fields did populate data, like title, ID, date, etc. It was just the ACF data fields I wanted to export that came back with “FALSE” results.
Hi @lazybeaches
I installed the plugin in question and have successfuly exported some posts with a custom field column!
I have attached a screenshot below to show the custom field value.
Perhaps the ‘false’ value is due to no data being found for the given post type and custom field name?
I also had an issue with the plugin where no values would appear because of a PHP error coming from the plugin. I turned off debug mode to fix this.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
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I see the PHP error, but don’t have an option to turn off debug mode. I ended up deleting and re-installing the PhiMind Export plugin and the “FALSE” notification disappeared. Hopefully this is a permanent fix, but if it’s temporary and the PHP error shows up again, I could delete and re-install as I did this time. Exporting the data has truly made a huge difference for us!
Can you share how you turned off debug mode? I’d like this as an option rather than deleting and re-installing if I encounter this issue again.
Hi @lazybeaches
DEBUG_MODE can be found in your wp-config.php file.
Thanks
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