Validation get triggered on save draft

• [email protected]

• July 25, 2017 at 9:44 pm

Hi!
I’m facing a quite weird problem that was not here before.
I have a big form (in admin) composed of multiple field groups. Each group contains various field types and some of them are required.
While populating the fields I was used to save draft to skip validation but now the validation is triggered even on drafts.

I tried upgrading to the latest version (5.6.0 at the time of writing) but it breaks my very customized layout (each field group is “embedded” in a vertically tabbed layout to break the form in smaller pieces) but the problem was present even with the latest version.
Luckily I kept a copy of the previously installed version (5.5.10).

I tried to see if acf/validate_save_post could do some magic (e.g. skip all the validation routines if post_type == my_cpt and if it is a draft) but I cannot see how to access the post object to get some attributes from it.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Best,
Roberto

• mitsuki

• October 11, 2017 at 6:58 pm

I’m struggling with the same issue here.
In my case, it happens only with v5.6.3, but not with v5.6.1…
I’d appreciate your advice!

• Nazrinn

• March 10, 2022 at 12:48 pm

Having this issue in 2022. Pretty bumming. =/