Just renewing the request to be able to move fields from one group to another. So many times I’ve had to delete and recreate a bunch of fields (and reenter all the content) due to a client request or misunderstanding – it’s just painful.
Love the plugin, though, thank you so much!!! This is my favorite plugin of all time and I’m happy to have purchased the add-ons. I’d purchase this if it were an add-on too!
Hi @Michelle
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll hope to find the time to add this in
Hi, Elliot!
If we could at least make duplicates, that would be helpful!
Dave
Hi guys!
In regards to Davids request to be able to duplicate. Since the fieldgroups are basically posts you can actually use this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/
I’ve tried it myself on a fieldgroup containing repeaterfields and other fields with success so I think it’d work fine on any fieldgroup.
Perhaps this could be added to the documentation so that everyone and not just ppl finding their way here become aware of this 🙂
Just saying thank you Jonathan for the heads up on Duplicate Posts plugin. Worked like a charm and saved me ooooohhh sooooo much headache!
How to duplicate 2 fieldgroups in 2 tabs? If I add a tab in each group, they still go to the line and tabs do not work.
Group1
[Tab1]
Field
Field
Group2
[Tab2]
Field
Field
But i need
[Tab1 (Group1)] [Tab2 (Group2)]
Field
Field
@xmonkx you can just place both tabs with their respective fields in the same field group..
It’ll give you the layout you want.
Also in the future please start a new topic instead 🙂
I have one group (Group_1) with 25 fields with prefix “tab1_” and i want make another tab with prefix “tab2”. If i do it in the same group i need duplicate all fields, drag them under new tab and replace new field name prefix. it’s not so difficult, but duplicating inside field group takes a lot of time 🙁
About moving fields between groups, this is the way I do it:
Export fields to php file
edit the php file and place fields under the desired group
import the groups from the edited php file
not optimal but works fine…
This helped me a lot: http://www.logicspot.com/developer-blog/advanced-custom-fields-quick-hack-to-move-a-field-to-another-group/
There described just 2 actions to achieve desired result:
Using phpMyAdmin
1. Find IDs of groups you want to move fields between (From Group -> To Group)
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type="acf"
you’ll see all the field groups, so just remember 2 FromID and ToID
2. Find all fields of From Group
SELECT * FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key LIKE "field_%" AND post_id=FromID
then just change post_id of appropriate fields to ToID and all these fields will be moved to To Group
