I’m trying to send data which was sent through a URL parameter but save that data with the form submission via front end using the acf_form function.
I saw this post but I’m not sure exactly which solution still works properly with the latest ACF: https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/feature-request-hidden-field-type/
Is there no way to create an actual hidden form field built in yet then? I’m not sure exactly which one of these workarounds is best to use if I simply want to save some data with the submission (from frontend) via a hidden form field element.
Couldn’t there just be a checkbox called Hidden on every form field element you can add with ACF? Or perhaps an extra Hidden field you can add?
Hi @rivage
I’m afraid there’s no option to do it yet. If you want, you can always set a hidden class, hide it using JavaScript, or add the HTML hidden fields using the “html_after_fields” or “html_before_fields” options. This page should give you more idea about it: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf_form/.
If you still want that feature, you can always open a new ticket so your request can be passed directly to the plugin author. You can open a new ticket here: https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/new-ticket.
I hope this makes sense 🙂
No idea if this will help others ( as it is an old topic ), but this is what I came up with to solve a similar issue. I needed a hidden value that would act as a slug to pull in other templates.
Added a radio button control which asked the user to display or not to display this specific section. “Show Section” held the value of the hidden slug I needed to pull and would also be defaulted to this value, otherwise without the value the section would be skipped entirely and not shown.
my-slug : Show Section
0 : Don’t Show Section
