Repeater Field not working in fornt-end acf form

• pokhsujan

• September 22, 2015 at 7:24 pm

Hi There,

I have created some field groups and displayed it as form in front-end of my site to create the user meta data. Everything works like charm except for the repeater fields. A Field group containing the repeater fields has been created and it works fine on the back-end but doesnot work in front-end. The Add Row and other functions in the repeater fields are not working.
Is there any way to make the Repeater fields work in front-end similar to the backend??

I have been trying to get some help but could not found the solution.
Please help.

• John Huebner

• September 23, 2015 at 9:25 am

The most likely cause of this is another plugin or some other javascript causing a conflict. Have you tried disabling other plugins on the site?

• pokhsujan

• September 23, 2015 at 4:42 pm

Thanks John for the reply but it was not the exact solution that I needed.
Any way I solved the problem.

• pokhsujan

• September 23, 2015 at 4:43 pm

Please Close this ticket. I solved it using ACF Front End Plugin and some acf hooks.

Thanks

• John Huebner

• September 23, 2015 at 10:39 pm

Glad you got it solved. If you figure out what you did you should post a new comment. It may help others in the future.

~JH

• pokhsujan

• September 24, 2015 at 5:25 pm

Sure,
I installed a plugin called ACF Front End Plugin, which displayed the repeater field in fine way and also Added new row while clicking the Add Row Button and then to save the fields I used the pre_save_post and save_post hooks.

//first in functions.php
add_filter(‘acf/pre_save_post’ , ‘my_pre_save_post’ );
function my_pre_save_post( $post_id ) {
global $post;

$current_id = get_current_user_id();
$post_id = ‘user_’ . $current_id;

do_action(‘acf/save_post’, $post_id);

}
and then in template file to save it
if(isset($_POST)){
// $post_id to save against
$current_id = get_current_user_id();
$postID = ‘user_’ . $current_id;

// update the fields as user meta
do_action(‘acf/save_post’, $postID);
}

Hope it helps for others too.

Thanks,