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  • Graham Barnes
    (Private)  March 16, 2015 at 11:20 am #13499

    Hi I bought this plugin as I want to build a search from fields and dropdowns I have created using the advanced custom fields plugin, but none of my acf fields show when i go and create a form in the admin, can anyone help?

    thanks
    Graham

    Ross Moderator
    (Private)  March 16, 2015 at 2:08 pm #13506

    Hey Graham

    Add a “post meta” field to your form, in there you will have a “meta key” dropdown – you need to match this up to the keys used in ACF 🙂

    Thanks

    Graham Barnes
    (Private)  March 16, 2015 at 2:26 pm #13510

    Hi Ross,
    Thanks for the quick reply. I tried that but it only allows you to have options that have been selected from the ACF fields, I want to show certain fields whether posts have selected them or not e.g at present if I only have 5 properties and 10 locations all 10 locations should show in the form whether or not them being used by the properties, is this possible?

    Graham

    Ross Moderator
    (Private)  March 16, 2015 at 2:40 pm #13511

    Hey Graham, this is kind of possible, basically the auto suggest as you mention, searches all your posts and grabs the post meta that is in use.

    If you wish to add post meta that is not in use, you must add the additional options you want manually.. To allow this plugin to work with all kinds of post meta (not just created by ACF) then this is the way the autosuggest feature must work.

    Thanks

    Graham Barnes
    (Private)  March 16, 2015 at 2:55 pm #13512

    Hi Ross,
    Thanks again for the quick reply. Unfortunately i am looking for something which will show all the post data as mentioned and the client who will be using this has no technical knowledge and with prices etc these are fluid options so this may not be what they are looking for, I will take a closer look tonight and will speak with the client. However if they are unable to use it am I entitled to a refund because the client would have been paying for the plugin anyway once I had got it all working and installed as they required.

    Thanks
    Graham

    Ross Moderator
    (Private)  March 16, 2015 at 3:07 pm #13513
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    Graham Barnes
    (Private)  March 16, 2015 at 5:43 pm #13530
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    Ross Moderator
    (Private)  March 23, 2015 at 8:16 am #13830
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    Joni Kaunismäki
    (Private)  March 23, 2015 at 2:11 pm #13842

    Hi! I have exactly the same kind of situation here. Is it possible to automatically add all the post meta values instead of manually adding future values here?

    Ross Moderator
    (Private)  March 23, 2015 at 2:15 pm #13843

    I’m afraid not – but I’m currently working on this feature – hope to be out in the next month.

    Thanks

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