Front end update select value

• jamesharrison

• September 12, 2022 at 8:58 am

Hi

I’m trying to set an employee’s line manager using ACF.

In the back end it’s all good. I have the field set up and a select option to list of managers. I can assign a line manager in the first instance.

I’ve created a profile page on the front end for the employee and can display the current line manager using this

$line_manager = get_field('line_managers', $user_info);

I can also pull through the line managers select values on the front end profile page using this

$field_name = 'line_managers'; 
$field = get_field_object($field_name, 'user_'. $user_info->ID);	
		
echo '<select name="' . $field['key'] . '">';
  foreach( $field['choices'] as $k => $v )
    {
      echo '<option value="' . $k . '">' . $v . '</option>';
    }
echo '</select>';

I’m struggling to connect the dots with the next part, which is allowing the employee to change the line manager.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

• laju

• September 15, 2022 at 10:39 am

you need this: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/create-a-front-end-form/

or you could do a custom form which sets the values to your post with update_field( 'line_manager', $picked_value, $post_id );

• jamesharrison

• September 20, 2022 at 7:26 am

Thanks, Laju.
Using acf_form worked for me. There was no need to use the <select> parts.