"Insert Field" button and File Advanced inside of Loops - Meta Box

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August 11, 2021 at 10:56 PM #30163

AMX
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Hi,

I have a post loop and using the Insert Field button is fine for simple fields but I have issues with inserting Checkboxes and File Advanced fields into the loop.

For checkboxes, I have found a workaround:

{{ mb.rwmb_the_value( 'myfield', '', post.ID, false ) }}

It's probably not ideal, but it kind of works.

But I cannot figure out how to output raw URLs of PDF files from File Advanced fields. The usual "Insert Fields" button doesn't help.

How can I use such fields inside loops?

I also tried:

{{ mb.rwmb_meta( 'my_field_group_id', '', post.ID )['my_field_id'] }}

But it doesn't display anything...

Greetings,
Tom

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August 12, 2021 at 9:31 AM #30175
Long Nguyen
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Hi Tom,

The multiple setting is always set to true for this field so it will return an array when getting the field value. You need to create a loop to iterate through array elements to get each file info. For example
```
{% set my_file = mb.rwmb_meta( 'file_advanced', '', post.ID ) %}
{% for item in my_file %}
    {{ item.url }}
    <br>
{% endfor %}
```
Get more details on the documentation https://docs.metabox.io/fields/file-advanced/#template-usage

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August 12, 2021 at 3:19 PM #30190

AMX
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Thank you Long. The "set my_file" part was the missing piece. It works now.

Greetings,
Tom

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