How to show Advanced Custom Field checkboxes

Anonymous

#42115

Hi, I just purchased your plugin and I’ve tried to find this information on your website, but haven’t so far. I’m using Advanced Custom Fields (local site so nothing to see) — I have, for example, a checkbox field called “Insurance” that lists about 20 types of insurance, a provider can have more than one type checked. I want users to be able to search by insurance type, so I need a search field labeled “Insurance” with the same checkboxes I have in the ACF field.

I set up a post-meta field for _insurance, clicked the “ACF Field” box, input type “Checkbox” — all I get is a checkbox with “field_5707e44d4642d(0)” under Insurance in the search form. Are there instructions I’ve missed for working with ACF fields? Love the movie demo — hope that I can get this working. Thanks!

Trevor

#42127

You say that you picked the field _insurance BUT, if you scroll down the list past all those that start with an underscore, you will see that the list is repeated WITHOUT the underscore, and you need to pick from those.

Anonymous

#42206

Hi and thanks so much for your quick reply! That worked, in that it brought up all of the choices for the “insurance” custom field. But somehow it is not connecting to my custom post type — there is a (0) next to each insurance type, when some should show (1), and a search brings up no results. I’ve gone through the configuration and am probably missing something obvious. In “General Settings” I’ve selected my custom post type (“Therapists”) with a field relationship of “AND” and “Detect Defaults” is set to “Post Type Archives”. Everything else I’ve left at the default setting — “Post Meta” is set at “insurance char =”. I also tried switching to the 2016 theme, same results. Thanks in advance for your help with this.

Trevor

#42234

Hi, Using Private Reply, can you send me admin logins so that i can look at the form setup? also give me links to the login page for admin, and links to any pages I need to look at/see.

Anonymous

#42309

Hi Trevor — thank you, unfortunately the site is still local so there is no way for you to access it. Any ideas of what I can look for? If I can’t figure it out, I can post it up on a test domain and give you access. Thanks!

Anonymous

#42317

AND… I started a new search form from scratch, and enabled autocount (missed that first time around) — both search and count are working now! Really excited about this plugin, thank you for your help.

Trevor

#42319

Weird. Can I mark this as resolved and close this thread?

Anonymous

#42370

Yes, please mark “resolved”, and thanks for your assistance.

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