update multiple nested repeaters programmatically

• zari

• August 6, 2018 at 7:12 pm

Hey,

I have a field that looks like this:

field (group)
==== repeater1
======== text
======== repeater2
============ post object field
============ repeater3
================ number
================ taxonomy

I’m writing a migration script and I need to populate the above fields.
I tried add_row, add_sub_row, update_field but nothing works.
I saw this answer in SO where it says you need to use update_field if there are no rows and add_row if there are.

So I tried this:

$res = update_field(
        // parent group field
        'field_5b0584cf8c831', 
        [
            // repeater1
            'ingredients_groups' => [
                $group_row
            ]
        ],
        $post_id
    );

and a row was added to ‘ingredients_groups’ but I don’t know how to add
rows to the other nested repeaters.
Do I need to specify the full path when calling update_field like this:

update_field(
'parent_group_field',
['repeater1'=>
    ['repeater2'=>
        ['repeater3'=>$row]
    ]
)

?

Thanks.

• zari

• August 6, 2018 at 11:21 pm

OK got it to work.
I used update_field() to add the first row with all the sub fields and nested repeater as arrays.
For the next rows I fetched the entire parent group field using get_field()
and appended the row as array.

• John Huebner

• August 8, 2018 at 12:31 am

If this was me I would probably loop through all of the content you are getting and build the entire repeater with all rows and then just use update_field to store the entire thing and skip adding all of the other rows one at a time. You do not have to use add row.