I had a problem a while back where I would create flexible content rows but they would not save when I updated the page. The issue turned out to be PHP related and not tied to ACF. Check out this post and see if any of the ideas there help:
Specifically, the PHP config setting max_input_vars
might need to be increased.
This is an old post, but I came across exactly the same problem with ACF 4.4.0. I have two relationship fields assigned to my normal WP posts.
One of the relationship fields displays a list of all WP posts and has no taxonomy restrictions. The posts appear as expected in the relationship selection area.
The other relationship field is supposed to display a list of custom post types restricted by a custom taxonomy. Nothing appears in this relationship selection area; it’s completely blank. The field itself appears, but the left pane is empty. Removing the taxonomy restriction did not fix the problem – the only way I could get anything to appear in the left pane was to choose either WP posts or WP pages as the post type.
This appears to be a bug, but considering the lack of similar reports (I have been unable to find much online), maybe it’s a unique situation.
I upgraded to 5.0 and that fixed the problem – kind of. The left pane correctly populates with the custom post type, but the search feature does not work. Regardless of what I enter, I get “no matches found”. I describe this problem in this related ticket:
So, upgrading to ACF 5.0 fixes the issue of the field not being populated, but now search does not work with custom post types.
Search also does not work in relationship fields in Advanced Custom Fields Pro when searching on a custom post type. Regardless of what I enter in the search field, I get “no matches found.”
Search works fine for normal WP posts.
The code modification suggested above by bivald does not apply to ACF 5.0 since the file structure is completely different.
I am running ACF 5.0 and WordPress 4.1.
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