Location Array not updating after PHP Import

• lesgrossman

• August 27, 2013 at 3:33 am

Elliot,

Fantastic plugin. Here is my issue:

On MAMP, I originally created a theme using the ACF plugin to add some custom fields to just one custom post type. Worked great.

I exported the ACF options via PHP, then included the plugin in my theme, added the exported PHP to my functions file, then loaded the theme to a live site on the web.

I now need to add the custom fields to more than just the one custom post type. So I found this:

'location' => array (
			array (
				array (
					'param' => 'post_type',
					'operator' => '==',
					'value' => 'poles',
					'order_no' => 0,
					'group_no' => 0,
				),
				
			),
		),

And I turned it into this:

'location' => array (
			array (
				array (
					'param' => 'post_type',
					'operator' => '==',
					'value' => 'poles',
					'order_no' => 0,
					'group_no' => 0,
				),
				array (
					'param' => 'post_type',
					'operator' => '==',
					'value' => 'finials',
					'order_no' => 1,
					'group_no' => 0,
				),
			),
		),

The problem is – it won’t register on more than one post type. When I added the additional location, it didn’t show up in either post type! I have tried everything I could and searched the forums and have found no answer. It simply won’t register in multiple locations (post types). I even tried adding ‘all’ as the post type.

I am now using the last version of ACF as a plugin instead of bundled with the theme. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

• Elliot

• August 27, 2013 at 2:27 pm

Hi @lesgrossman

The issue is that your location rule is not written correctly. Can you please create a new field group in the backend of WP with the desired location rules, then export the field group and just copy / paste the location rules out.

The issue in particular is that your array is nested incorrectly.

Following my above advice will demonstrate how the nesting should look.

Thanks
E

• lesgrossman

• August 27, 2013 at 10:23 pm

Elliot,

This is something that I actually tried. Here are the location rules it exports right now:

'location' => array (
			array (
				array (
					'param' => 'post_type',
					'operator' => '==',
					'value' => 'finials',
					'order_no' => 0,
					'group_no' => 0,
				),
				array (
					'param' => 'post_type',
					'operator' => '==',
					'value' => 'holdbacks',
					'order_no' => 1,
					'group_no' => 0,
				),
				array (
					'param' => 'post_type',
					'operator' => '==',
					'value' => 'endcaps',
					'order_no' => 2,
					'group_no' => 0,
				),
			),
		),

Are you seeing something that I am not? I can’t figure what’s different between this and the original. This is how the latest version of ACF exports it for me now.

Thank you!

• Elliot

• August 28, 2013 at 2:17 pm

Hi @lesgrossman

Your location rules are written like this.

Show the field group if:
* post_type == finials
* AND post_type == holdbacks

The issue is that this will never return true. A post can only be of 1 type, not 2 or 3.

To change the AND to OR, your grouping needs to change to this:

'location' => array (
			array (
				array (
					'param' => 'post_type',
					'operator' => '==',
					'value' => 'finials',
					'order_no' => 0,
					'group_no' => 0,
				),
			),
			array (
				array (
					'param' => 'post_type',
					'operator' => '==',
					'value' => 'holdbacks',
					'order_no' => 1,
					'group_no' => 0,
				),
			),
			array (
				array (
					'param' => 'post_type',
					'operator' => '==',
					'value' => 'endcaps',
					'order_no' => 2,
					'group_no' => 0,
				),
			),
		),

If you had created a new field group and added the rules correctly (into OR groups), this is how the code should have exported