Problem with apostrophe and blank space

Trevor

#44618

The field name has a blank in it, or a value? I did not think that ACF allowed blanks, in that you can have them in Field Names, but the slug name for the field converts this to an underscore.

Anonymous

#45263

Hi Trevor,
if you go to this page http://lnx.movie-time.it/new/film/ and for example search this title “36 ORE ALL’INFERNO”, it doesn’t work because of the apostrophe.

And happend the same if for example you search for a director “Antonio Petrucci ” (as you can see i left a blank space at the end of the name on purpose)

Thanks for helping

Michele

Trevor

#45264

Ahhhhhh. Light Bulb. I need to refer this to the developer, Ross.

Anonymous

#45265

Ok thank you, hopefully he will figured out a solution!

Thanks again

Michele

Ross Moderator

#45436

Hi Michele

I’m going to have to look into this further.

For now, can you leave the ACF name, without space or apostrophe? You can always use a label to use the text you want:

safename : not 'so' safe name

Thanks

Anonymous

#45461

Hi Ross,
for the spaces no problem at the moment, but unfortunately the apostrophe is part of the titles, can’t remove them!

Michele

Anonymous

#47007

Hi Ross,
do you have any updates about this issue?

thankyou very much

Michele

Ross Moderator

#47159

Hi Michele

So essentially the issue is that these characters are not being searched properly in the combobox dropdowns?

And because in ACF, it is a plain text field, these are getting saved in as the values, not only the labels.

Our comboboxes are powered by this JS library (which is what is giving the problem):
https://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/

Due to some other issues I discovered with “chosen”, I also implemented “select2” – https://select2.github.io/

I’ve just emailed you the dev version, which contains select2 – hopefully this will be a sufficient workaround for your issues.

To change from chosen to select2 – head to the main “settings” under the “Search & Filter” menu item in the admin area.

Here you will see an option to change which script to use for comboboxes 🙂

Let me know how you get on.

Thanks

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#49136

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Trevor

#49138

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