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  • Trevor Moderator
    (Private)  April 1, 2020 at 1:46 pm #238589

    A coder (such coding is outside the scope of our technical support, but it can be done) could automate the filling of this newly required field, but that would only work as you edit/save a post.

    introma
    (Private)  April 1, 2020 at 1:50 pm #238592

    So what should I do?

    Trevor Moderator
    (Private)  April 1, 2020 at 2:34 pm #238596

    We can, together, explore going down that route. The first thing I think you CAN do, is to create the ACF field. I would suggest making a dropdown field, where you specify the choices. Open ONE post and manually set the value (correctly), and then we can add that to the form.

    Then we can see if we can code it together.

    BTW, are you using a child theme?

    introma
    (Private)  April 1, 2020 at 2:35 pm #238598

    Thank you for your help.
    OK. Let’s do it like this.
    Yes I am using a child theme.

    Trevor Moderator
    (Private)  April 1, 2020 at 2:51 pm #238600
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    introma
    (Private)  April 1, 2020 at 2:53 pm #238602

    what would the field do? to name it in a suitable name

    Trevor Moderator
    (Private)  April 1, 2020 at 3:00 pm #238604
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    introma
    (Private)  April 1, 2020 at 3:12 pm #238607
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    Trevor Moderator
    (Private)  April 1, 2020 at 3:17 pm #238609

    I found a post that will help us:

    https://support.searchandfilter.com/forums/topic/author-field-not-honouring-auto-count-setting/#post-223172

    The code used there was this:

    // save Author to author 
function event_author_on_save( $post_id ) {
  $post_type = 'event'; //custom post type - change to post if you're just working with posts

  //Check if we are saving correct post type
  if( get_post_type( $post_id ) != $post_type)
    return;

  //Check it's not an auto save routine
  if( defined('DOING_AUTOSAVE') && DOING_AUTOSAVE ) 
    return;
  
  // get the author ID of the post
  $author_id = get_post_field ('post_author', $post_id);
  // get the display name of that author
  $author = get_the_author_meta( 'display_name' , $author_id );

  // update the custom field value 
  update_field( 'acf_event_author', $author, $post_id );
}
add_action('save_post', 'event_author_on_save');
    Trevor Moderator
    (Private)  April 1, 2020 at 3:18 pm #238611

    Which event did you (also) edit, or did you not edit any yet?

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