Field group doesn't save properly when using both: Repeater and Flexible Cont.

• greenish

• September 10, 2013 at 6:05 pm

Hi,

I’ve got an issue where a field group is not saved properly anymore when using a combination of flexible content fields and repeater fields.

I was able to reproduce the situation when setting up something like this:

Flexible Content Field
	Layout 1
		Repeater Field
			Text Field
	Layout 2
		Repeater Field
			Text Field	
	Layout 3
		Repeater Field
			Text Field

When setting this up, values beneath “Layout 3” (i.e. the “position” of the field group) are not getting saved anymore.

I’m using:
Chrome 29 or Safari 6 (same result)
Wordpress 3.6
ACF 4.2.2 or nightly build (same result)
ACF Repeater 1.0.1
ACF Flexible Content 1.0.2

• Elliot

• September 11, 2013 at 4:54 pm

Hi @greenish

Thanks for the info.
May I ask what edit screen you are saving the data on? On a normal post / page, or a taxonomy, user, options page?

The issue is either 1 of 2 things:
1. Running out of PHP memory or hitting a max vars limit during the save – easiest way to solve this is check your server error logs and increase the available vars / memory
2. Your field names are too long to save into the DB – this an happen when saving to a taxonomy, user or options page as these tables have different character limits on the meta_key value

Hope that helps find the issue!

Cheers
E