Cloning with programmatic data - Meta Box

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March 25, 2016 at 12:15 AM #2570

agorski
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Hey all,
I've got a potentially unique situation here, so I'm not sure if anyone can help. I'm getting data from an external API via AJAX, and I'd like to insert it alongside user data that's going into cloneable fields.

Is there a way to hook in and use metabox.io's "clone()" JS function to accomplish this, or is there a programmatic way to add data fields to a meta box via JS?

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March 25, 2016 at 10:42 AM #2577

Anh Tran
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Hi Sam,

When is the data retrieved via Ajax? When editting a post?

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March 26, 2016 at 12:35 AM #2587

agorski
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Yeah, it's a button inside of a metabox that triggers it. I was able to kind of hack in the functionality by just triggering a click on the "Clone" button, locating the :last clone, and iterating through its fields. This is actually good enough for now, I wouldn't consider this a feature request, I was just curious if there was a built-in way.

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March 28, 2016 at 9:05 AM #2603

Anh Tran
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This is not a built-in feature. I think the way you're doing is correct: getting data via Ajax and use JS to populate the inputs.

We're building a premium extension for GeoCoding where the data is got from Google Maps Geocoding API via ajax and then populates all geolocation's fields. The principle is the same 🙂

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