I have products with possible add-ons.
The add-ons have their own custom post type (post name + ACF image field).
Product pages use a repeater with relational field (post object) to add the add-ons.
But, because there’s a lot of add-ons, and almost all are usually included with each new product, I would like to pre-populate the repeater with all the add-ons, and let the user remove those that don’t apply to the new product.
How can I do that?
Here’s how far I got:
add_filter('acf/load_field/name=addons', 'co_acf_load_default_addons', 10, 3);
function co_acf_load_default_addons($field) {
$field['choices'] = array(1593, 1553, 1588);
return $field;
}
But it’s not there yet… Any suggestions?
let me know if you have any questions
add_filter('acf/load_value/name=add_on_repeater', 'prepopulate_add_on_repeater', 20, 3);
function prepopulate_add_on_repeater($value, $post_id, $field) {
if (!empty($value)) {
// already has a value, do not overwrite
return $value;
}
// do a query to get all posts of the post type
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'add-ons', // your post type
'posts_per_page' => -1, // -1 get all
'fields' => 'ids', // return only list of IDs
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
if (empty($query->posts)) {
// no posts found
return $value;
}
// initialize value, a repeater has an array value
$value = array();
// loop over posts and built repeater value
foreach ($query->posts as $add_on_post_id) {
// each row of the repeater is a nested array
$value[] = array(
// you must use field key to set value of sub field of each row
'field_XXXXXXX' => $add_on_post_id
);
}
return $value;
}
Thank you so much John!
Just a quick change I made for UI’s sake. Instead of a repeater, I’m using a Post Object field which allows for multiple values, and it returns a Post ID. How does that impact your code?
The code I gave you was for a post object in a repeater. It won’t work without the repeater.
Hi John,
Sadly this won’t work without a repeater. How do I make it work with a Post Object (selector2 I think) field with multiple values instead?
Thank you for all your help!
add_filter('acf/load_value/name=post_object_repeater', 'prepopulate_post_object_with_all_posts', 20, 3);
function prepopulate_post_object_with_all_posts($value, $post_id, $field) {
if (!empty($value)) {
// already has a value, do not overwrite
return $value;
}
// do a query to get all posts of the post type
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'add-ons', // your post type
'posts_per_page' => -1, // -1 get all
'fields' => 'ids', // return only list of IDs
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
if (empty($query->posts)) {
// no posts found
return $value;
}
$value = $query->posts;
return $value;
}
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