Specifying default choices for relationship field

• Sam

• January 6, 2015 at 3:01 am

I’ve got a relationship field for which I’d like to set up some default options as 90% of posts will have the same 3-4 choices specified.

I’ve currently got the following code, which is supposed to only populate a list that doesn’t already have a value specified:

add_filter('acf/load_value/name=ctas', function($value) {

    if(empty($value)) {
        $value = get_posts(array(
            'post_type'      => 'cta',
            'posts_per_page' => -1,
            'orderby'        => 'menu_order',
            'order'          => 'ASC',
            'fields'         => 'ids',
        ));
    }

    return $value;

});

This populates the right-hand side of the relationship field just fine, but unfortunately the choices are not saved with the post.

Any pointers would be much appreciated!

• Sam

• January 6, 2015 at 3:07 am

OK, I think the problem with the relationship field choices was unrelated to my PHP code.

It seems if I don’t specify a title for a post the post’s relationship field choices don’t save. Not sure if this is a bug or intended behaviour but thought I’d mention it just in case!

• James

• July 22, 2015 at 9:37 pm

Hi @sam,

Thank you for raising this issue.

I believe this is the intended behavior for the Relationship field to know where it is saving the data to. The title has to be part of the array.

• augusto

• April 7, 2017 at 3:47 pm

Hi @sam ! Sorry to relive this old topic..

Can you share your workaround to solve this problem? I’m facing exactly the same difficulties.. Can’t find nothing similar to help