Frontend Form to be different form Backend Form

• bluantinoo

• July 10, 2015 at 3:22 am

Hello everybody,
I’m asking something just to know if it’s possibile.

I have a very complex form with several repeater and complex layout fields.
A lot of this fields are inside a conditional logic.

I would like to create a much simpler form to let users post new content from the frontend, without all the conditional stuff.

Is it possibile to have a form on the frontend that is different (with different field groups) and then “moving” all the data in the right fields before saving the post?

• John Huebner

• July 12, 2015 at 10:38 pm

This really isn’t possible. In order for ACF to find the content the fields and sub fields need to have the same hierarchy and field keys.

I suppose it could be possible if you want to do all the input parsing yourself, get the fields submitted on the front end and update fields in a different field group.

But this is not something that you can do by just creating two different field groups

See
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf_form/
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-pre_save_post/
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/using-acf_form-to-create-a-new-post/
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acfsave_post/
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/update_field/

There may be other documentation as well

• bluantinoo

• July 13, 2015 at 8:03 pm

OK, this is far too complicated for the time window I have.

Maybe is possible to pre-populate fields? Like precheck the field that fires the condition?

• John Huebner

• July 13, 2015 at 9:17 pm

Set the default value to the value that shows the conditional field.

• bluantinoo

• July 13, 2015 at 10:33 pm

gordian knot 🙂