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How to load / use Custom Fields created by ACF in MB Views

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  • July 21, 2022 at 2:47 PM #37102
    keith.mason@akcreation.co.uk[email protected]
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    Hi there, I am trying to code a 'View' using MB Views, which will load in custom fields that are created by the ACF extension (I understand that I can use Metabox for this, but due to technicalities on this project I need to use ACF for my custom fields).
    However, the fields I have setup using ACF, do not show when I click 'Insert Field' in the 'Edit View' screen.
    My custom field ID is 'office_location', so I tried loading it in by typing '{{ post.office_address }}' however if this does not work (nothing gets returned, but I know this has been filled in).

    So, is this possible? And if so, how is it done please? Please can you provide me with the code I would need to input / specific instructions (and not just a link to your documentation as I have looked and searched through them and found nothing).

    Thanks in advance for your help,

    Keith

    July 21, 2022 at 3:33 PM #37103
    keith.mason@akcreation.co.uk[email protected]
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    sorry I mistyped - I meant to say my custom field ID is 'office_address'

    July 21, 2022 at 10:56 PM #37108
    Long NguyenLong Nguyen
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    Hi,

    Both Meta Box and ACF custom fields save values in the table wp_postmeta for regular fields, so in this case, you can use the WordPress function get_post_meta() to get/display the field value in View

    {{ mb.get_post_meta( post.ID, 'office_address' ) }}

    Read more on the documentation
    https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/
    https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/mb-views/#running-php-functions

    July 22, 2022 at 5:11 PM #37130
    keith.mason@akcreation.co.uk[email protected]
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    That's great thank you Long - much appreciated 🙂

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