update_field does not work with repeater field inside a prefixed cloned field

• Swennet

• April 4, 2023 at 2:21 pm

I have a prefixed cloned field that contains a repeater field. When trying to update the repeater field value nothing seems to happen. I have tried all possible variations for the field selector.

Field 1: myCloneField
Contains a clone of Field 2 “myRepeaterField”. This field is named “myCloneField” with the setting on to prefix all field names with the field name (“myCloneField”).

Field 2: myRepeaterField
Contains a repeater field with name “myRepeaterField”.

For example:

$data = [
    [
        'title' => 'A title',
        'text' => 'Some text',
    ],
    [
        'title' => 'Another title',
        'text' => 'Some other text',
    ]
];

update_field('myCloneField_myRepeaterField', $data, $post_id);
update_field('myCloneField_myCloneField_myRepeaterField', $data, $post_id);

update_field('myCloneField_field_62f3b528e5146', $data, $post_id);
update_field('myCloneField_myCloneField_field_62f3b528e5146', $data, $post_id);

update_field('field_62f3b58d3fc2c_field_62f3b528e5146', $data, $post_id);
update_field('field_62f3b58d3fc2c_myCloneField_field_62f3b528e5146', $data, $post_id);

None of these seem to do anything other than saving an array as the given field key. When checking my database I do not see the individual post_meta rows that repeater fields should create.