Set product category (WooCommerce) from an acf select field within acf form

• cash59000

• July 27, 2020 at 5:39 am

Hi,

First of all sorry for my poor English.

Actual configuration:

– I use ACF to create products via acf form. The form has a first ‘Brand’ field (selector) and, according to the choice made, a ‘Models’ field (selector) containing the models corresponding to the brand is displayed.
– The ‘Brand’ field contains a list of 200 brands, and there are as many ‘Models’ conditional fields as there are brands
– In parallel, product categories (WooCommerce) have been created which include the brands (200). These categories are child categories of the parent category ‘Motorcycles’

My problem:

When submitting the form, I would like the product created to be included in the category corresponding to the choice made in the ‘Brand’ field and unregistered from uncategorized category.

I don’t want to use the Taxonomy field of ACF because with conditional logic we cannot use ‘Value is equal to’. In addition, I do not want the parent category ‘Motorcycles’ to be visible in the ‘Brand’ selector.

Hoping that my explanation is clear.

Thanks so much for helping me

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• John Huebner

• August 4, 2020 at 1:59 am

You need to create an acf/save_post filter https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-save_post/

In this filter you need to get the value from the field and then find the correct “category”. I don’t know what this field contains but you should be able to get the term in some way. Then when you have that you use https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_set_post_terms/ to place the post in the category.