• swayoftheverses

• in reply to: Populate Dropdown with Custom Field Values from a custom post type and autofill
• September 25, 2016 at 7:53 pm

Hi @acf-support

I worked it all out. I created a post object field called Venue in Events, that pulled in all the different Venues; I just needed to select the appropriate venue and then used the_field() to pull in all the other data from the Venues table that I needed into the template file for the event listing, meaning that I didn’t need to autofill anything in the form, . It all worked out in the end! Although, the documentation is a little confusing at times and a few real-life working examples would be really helpful!

Thank you!

• swayoftheverses

• in reply to: Populate Dropdown with Custom Field Values from a custom post type and autofill
• September 16, 2016 at 6:58 pm

Hi @acf-support James,

I’ve managed to get part 1 done, which is pull the venue title into a dropdown in the events custom field group, how do I autofill the telephone/website/other info custom fields when I select from the dropdown? I just don’t get it!

Thanks

• swayoftheverses

• in reply to: Populate Dropdown with Custom Field Values from a custom post type and autofill
• September 16, 2016 at 6:57 pm

Hi James,

I’ve managed to get part 1 done, which is pull the venue title into a dropdown in the events custom field group, how do I autofill the telephone/website/other info custom fields when I select from the dropdown? I just don’t get it!

Thanks

• swayoftheverses

• in reply to: Populate Dropdown with Custom Field Values from a custom post type and autofill
• September 14, 2016 at 5:15 am

Cheers,
I’ll give it go!

• swayoftheverses

• in reply to: Populate Dropdown with Custom Field Values from a custom post type and autofill
• September 12, 2016 at 7:09 am

Thanks James,
I looked at the first link before I posted my question, but let me clarify my scenario – I need to have a lot addresses/emails/phone numbers for venues (400 I think), these will be on a page of venues, so this will be my custom post type venues. I have a second page that is going to show listings of events taking place, so when I post up a listing, I’d like to be able to pull the venue information into the ACF from that I’ve created in a dropdown select box so that I don’t have to fill out the information again, as for 20-30 listings a day this will get a little excessive!

• swayoftheverses

• in reply to: Populate Dropdown with Custom Field Values from a custom post type and autofill
• September 10, 2016 at 1:11 am

Oh and thank you for any help!

Pritpal