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  • For some strange reason, my response doesn’t seem to be submitting! This is my third try – so apologies if you’ve received one or two responses previous to this one.

    I followed the short YT tutorial at https://youtu.be/0As393DZyZs for instructions on how to do this.

    Not knowing how to directly answer your question I’ve recorded a short video tour of my configuration:

    https://youtu.be/0As393DZyZs

    Thanks for your continued help – and for staying awake!

  • I created the options page mainly by following the directions in this short YT video: https://youtu.be/0As393DZyZs

    I’m not exactly sure what you’re asking for, so have responded by recording a quick “video tour” of my configuration, hoping you’ll see the answer you’re looking for somewhere in it!

    https://notes.websmithian.com/l/0uoEPX

    Thanks for the help (and for staying awake!).

  • I have figured out the solution to my problem, helped by a YT video that appeared yesterday and gave me some clues.
    My original aim was to use some fields created on an Options Page with Elementor. After approaching ACF tech support and receiving a very cryptic and complex answer, most of which was unintelligible to me, I concluded that Elementor didn’t support the use of ACF Options Pages.
    My backup plan was to then use shortcodes to achieve what I’d set out to do.
    My folly was in creating a Group field in ACF and then putting those various subfields (e.g. business name, phone number) into that set. It didn’t work in Elementor and neither did the shortcodes.
    In the end, remaking the Field Group with discrete (i.e. not Group) fields totally solved the problem. I can now use Elementor’s dynamic fields control and shortcodes, if I prefer!
    Thank you for all of your help on this.

  • As indicated by the post title, I was using an Options Page.

    Please look at this screenshot for as much info as I can provide: https://notes.websmithian.com/l/HmS8J4

    Anything more you need to know?

    Thanks for continuing to help me!

  • Thanks for your response, John.
    I had no idea that ACF supported the use of shortcodes!
    Using this newly-gained knowledge from you, I understand that because I am getting the ACF fields from anywhere other than the current post (for me it would be one of many pages), then using a shortcode in the format [acf field="field_name" post_id="123"] should get me what I need, substituting the word ‘options’ rather than a post ID.
    Because one of the field names in what I created was business_name, I’ve created this shortcode: [acf field="business_name" post_id="options"] and placed it within some plain text.
    Using this within an Elementor text editor field doesn’t yield any result. Literally nothing appears on the front end other than the plain text preceding and after those square brackets.
    What am I doing wrong?

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