How to store more than one value in a text field?

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September 22, 2021 at 4:30 PM #30895

Tobias
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How to store more than one value in a text field in order to create a hierarchy?

For example:

In a text field I have the column "location". This can have "Black Forest", "Freiburg", "Berlin" etc.

Now I want to be able to select only "Freiburg". But right now it just gives me everything that is written in the text field: "Black Forest, Freiburg, Berlin ..."
So how to separate this right from the import?
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September 23, 2021 at 12:41 PM #30907

Long Nguyen
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Hi,

The text field is used to store the text value only. If you want to be able to select, please use the field select or checkbox_list.
https://docs.metabox.io/fields/select/
https://docs.metabox.io/fields/checkbox-list/

September 26, 2021 at 5:19 PM #30973

Tobias
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Is it not possible to store two values separated with semicolon in a text field?
That in the frontend it shows up as two values and not one.

September 26, 2021 at 6:30 PM #30976

Tobias
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For an easy real example:

I have two teacher names inside of a column:

Teacher Location
Max|Susan Berlin
Max Berlin
Susan Hamburg

Now in the frontend I built a search&filter. But the teachers of the first line appear as a own teacher "Max|Susan".
But I only want that you can select Max or Susan.
The problem is that we import this with .csv file or google sheets sync.

Is this easy thing not possible with metabox? Or what do I not understand here?

September 26, 2021 at 11:40 PM #30985

Tobias
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And for example with wpallimport and acf, cpt etc. I would have imported the taxonomies and choose a separator:
https://share.getcloudapp.com/NQuY0Kjp

So I'm struggling to separate the fields, taxonomies etc. in metabox if I do an import.

September 27, 2021 at 7:07 PM #31008

Long Nguyen
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Hi,

I'm afraid that it is not possible to import this kind of data to the Meta Box field's value. You need to import the text only without the separate characters. I will inform the development team to explore the possibility.
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