User editable labels on flexible content sections

• sahil89

• October 10, 2017 at 8:40 pm

Is it not possible to let editors add some label based on content of current section? So they don’t have to open and collapse each section to edit something. Basically I want editors be able to label each section.

• John Huebner

• October 10, 2017 at 10:51 pm

Yes it is, but you need to add a filter to do it https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-fields-flexible_content-layout_title/

• sahil89

• October 10, 2017 at 10:59 pm

Thanks I will look into it. Would have been a lot better if there was ready to use option to label blocks.

• John Huebner

• October 10, 2017 at 11:04 pm

ACF uses an existing field in repeaters to do this, but repeaters have the same fields on every row so you can select which one to show. Flex fields can have different fields on every row do there is not simple way to just let us select a field to be shown. Basically we need to do the work of deciding what field will be shown, even if it will be the same field every time because it’s just an admin field to let the user enter something to identify it so they know what it is when collapsed. I just had to do this recently on a complex site.