Sorting Repeater Field, in ADMIN, by a date?

• jmccall

• June 8, 2019 at 5:46 am

Hey, I’m trying to modify the function circuuz posted here: https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/sort-on-repeater-field-in-admin/

Do I understand correctly that this sorts the field in the ADMIN editing screen? And does it work for options panels?

I have a few hundred items in a repeater, and one of the sub_fields is a date value. I’d love to be able to sort all those fields by the date. Is that possible?

Here’s the function as circuuz posted it:

function my_acf_update_value( $value, $post_id, $field  ) {
	$mc_sort_id_FIELD_KEY = 'field_xxxxxxxx'; // Set this to the field key of your field called "mc_sort_id".
	
	$order = [];

	foreach ( $repeater as $i => $row ) {
		$order[ $i ] = $row[ $mc_sort_id_FIELD_KEY ];
	}

	array_multisort( $order, SORT_ASC, $value );
	
	return $value;
}
add_filter( 'acf/update_value/name=my_repeater_field', 'my_acf_update_value', 10, 3 );