page_link empty when adding layout via hook

• panic175

• June 16, 2015 at 8:26 pm

Hi.

I’m adding layouts to a flexible content field with the following code:

add_filter('acf/load_field/key=field_557ff18bab6a7', 'add_test_layout');

function add_test_layout($field) {
    array_push($field['layouts'], 
        array (
            'key' => 'test_layout',
            'name' => 'test_layout',
            'label' => 'test_layout',
            'display' => 'row',
            'sub_fields' => array(
                    array (
                        'key' => 'field_test_link',
                        'label' => 'Link',
                        'name' => 'test_link',
                        'prefix' => '',
                        'type' => 'page_link',
                        'instructions' => '',
                        'required' => 0,
                        'conditional_logic' => 0,
                        'wrapper' => array (
                            'width' => '',
                            'class' => '',
                            'id' => '',
                        ),
                        'post_type' => array(),
                        'taxonomy' => array(),
                        'allow_null' => 0,
                        'multiple' => 0,
                    ),
                ),
            'min' => '',
            'max' => '',
        )
    );
    return $field;
}

The fieldgroup and the first layout is created with the ACF GUI (at least in this test-case). If the ‘test_layout’ contains a page_link field it doesn’t work. I’m not able to choose a page.

I tried this on a clean WordPress installation with 4.2.2 and ACF Pro 5.2.6

• Jonathan

• June 17, 2015 at 5:34 am

Hi @panic175

Have you looked at the values of a page_link element created from the GUI to make sure you’re not missing any parameters or values in your own?

• panic175

• June 17, 2015 at 6:04 pm

Hi @Jonathan.

There is no difference.
When I export the working page_link element from the GUI I get this code:

array (
    'key' => 'field_557ff199ab6a8',
    'label' => 'Link_aus_GUI',
    'name' => 'link_aus_gui',
    'type' => 'page_link',
    'instructions' => '',
    'required' => 0,
    'conditional_logic' => 0,
    'wrapper' => array (
        'width' => '',
        'class' => '',
        'id' => '',
    ),
    'post_type' => array (),
    'taxonomy' => array (),
    'allow_null' => 0,
    'multiple' => 0,
),

• panic175

• July 8, 2015 at 6:40 pm

Hi.

Sadly I still could not resolve my problem. I found out that a similar problem also occurs in the gallery-field.
There, I’m not able to edit a photo after I inserted it.

Seems to be some bigger problem with the Plugin-JavaScript and hooked fields in general.

• Jonathan

• July 14, 2015 at 6:14 am

Hi @panic175

Okay. I’ll make a bug issue for this on the Github repo and we’ll see what happens 🙂

It’s probably as you say that the javascripts for the media module and select2 dropdown aren’t firing when creating a field in this way. Do you get any JS errors in the console that I could post?

• panic175

• July 14, 2015 at 8:29 pm

Hi @jonathan

Thanks for your help.
No, my console stays blank.

• Elliot

• July 20, 2015 at 9:38 am

Hi @panic175

Thanks for the bug report.

The issue here is quite simple.
During your ajax request, the flexible content field is never loaded, therefore, your extra page layout and page_link field is never registered.

I have a few questions:
– Is your field group registered via code?
– Can this layout and field be added in a different way (not within a load_field filter)?

Thanks
E

• panic175

• July 20, 2015 at 6:19 pm

Hi @elliot

– Is your field group registered via code?

I have tried both, neither worked. In production I want to register it via code.

– Can this layout and field be added in a different way (not within a load_field filter)?

Not that I know of. I try to achieve that the individual layouts can be loaded with a single call. So that every layout is a bower component which includes field layout, include of the JavaScript and other necessary functions.

Greetings
Patrick

• panic175

• July 29, 2015 at 6:36 pm

During your ajax request, the flexible content field is never loaded, therefore, your extra page layout and page_link field is never registered.

Is there a way to manually load the fields with another ajax request?