Saving a post causes few sub-rows form the end under repeater field to be delete

• tlinteractive

• August 15, 2023 at 9:13 am

Hi,
Something very weird.

I made some custom functionality to make it happens the way I need, I’ll write here all the flow:
– I have created a new custom post type called event. I also created a custom taxonomy under event called event_type.
– I created from GUI a field-group with tabs and in every tabs there are custom fields.
– In one of the tabs(last of them) there is a repeater and a sub-repeater.
– Inside this sub-repeater there is a group, and under this group(let’s call it specific-event), I have SELECT field which I populate all terms from the custom taxonomy event_type.
– I want that in the SELECT under the specific-event, when the user picks a term, it will show custom group under specific-event with custom fields.
So what I did:
I have created programmatically each group and set the parent attribute to be specific-event field key.
Each group automatically gets ‘hidden’ class.
In the JS API, I have created some logics, to detect any term select and make the correct group(I have created programmatically) to be visible.
– So far all good, the custom functionality seems to be working,
Everytime I change the term in the select under specific-event it shows me the correct sub-group under specific-event.
BUT, when I add lets say 7 parent rows in the parent repeater, and inside I add more 3-4 sub-rows each,
It doesnt save all… after saving I gets only 4 parent rows, and not 7. Something very very wierd.

This is the code for the custom groups:

add_action('init', function() {
        if (function_exists('acf_add_local_field_group')) {

            acf_add_local_field(array(
                'key' => 'field_event_event',
                'label' => 'נקודת עניין',
                'name' => 'event__event',
                'aria-label' => '',
                'type' => 'select',
                'choices' => array(),
                'return_format' => 'array',
                'ui' => 1,
                'multiple' => 0,
                'parent' => 'field_6441222b20c40'
            ));
            acf_add_local_field(array(
                'key' => 'field_event_time',
                'label' => 'זמן',
                'name' => 'event__time',
                'aria-label' => '',
                'type' => 'text',
                'instructions' => '',
                'required' => 0,
                'conditional_logic' => 0,
                'taxonomy' => '',
                'parent' => 'field_6441222b20c40'
            ));

            $event_types = get_terms([
                'taxonomy' => 'event_type',
                'hide_empty' => false,
            ]);

            foreach ($event_types as $event_type) {
                $dynamic_fields = (!empty(TL_ACF::get_field('event-type__dynamic-fields', 'event_type_' . $event_type->term_id)) ? TL_ACF::get_field('event-type__dynamic-fields', 'event_type_' . $event_type->term_id) : array());

                $field_group = array(
                    'key' => 'field_' . $event_type->term_id,
                    'label' => $event_type->name,
                    'name' => 'event__type-' . $event_type->term_id,
                    'type' => 'group',
                    'wrapper' => array(
                        'class' => 'hidden',
                    ),
                    'parent' => 'field_6441222b20c40'
                );

                foreach ($dynamic_fields as $dynamic_field) {

                    $field_group['sub_fields'][] = array(
                        'key' => 'field_' . $dynamic_field['dynamic-fields__system-name'],
                        'label' => $dynamic_field['dynamic-fields__name'],
                        'name' => 'type-' . $event_type->term_id . '__' . $dynamic_field['dynamic-fields__system-name'],
                        'type' => $dynamic_field['dynamic-fields__type']['value'],
                    );
                }

                acf_add_local_field($field_group);
            }
        }
    });

• John Huebner

• August 15, 2023 at 9:50 am

When fields disappear at the end of a repeater this is usually do to the PHP setting max_input_vars. This setting needs to be edited on your server/host. The default is 1000.
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• tlinteractive

• August 15, 2023 at 10:09 am

After I posted this, I figured it out it’s related to the max_input_vars.
Thank you!

This specific back-end post saving, included lots of lots of vars… (fields inside groups inside repeater inside repeater). Any best practice for this?
Any way to optimize this max_input_vars? maybe I can make ACF splitting those post requests into several requests?

Thanks!

• John Huebner

• August 15, 2023 at 12:12 pm

You can use pagination option for top level repeaters, it will not work for nested repeaters.