Migrating from regular fields to a grouped field

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February 17, 2022 at 10:59 PM #33965

Jonathan Minter
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Is there a resource somewhere that would help me understand how to take a set of regular MetaBox fields I've been using on a custom post type, and then migrate them to a new grouped field? I have to confess I've never dealt with raw serialized data in a database before...

My thoughts were that I could dump the data from my existing wp_postmeta table and then build some insert statements. I'm doing a fair amount of restructuring, so I now have groups to represent what used to be regular MB fields as well as some taxonomies attached to the post type that I now want inside the groups.

But if I knew how to just take one regular field and migrate it to a grouped field, I could extrapolate and handle the rest of it.

Trying to avoid touching hundreds of posts manually...

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February 18, 2022 at 12:36 PM #33978
Long Nguyen
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Hi,

I think it could be done with some steps:
- Make sure that register the correct group field and subfield.
- Create a function that hooks to the action after saving post like save_post
- This function will take the field value and assign it to a group ID array
- serialize data and update the field group value

Here is a sample code
```
add_action( 'save_post', function( $post_id ) {
    $group = array();
    $field_id1 = rwmb_meta( 'field_id1', '', $post_id );
    $field_id2 = rwmb_meta( 'field_id2', '', $post_id );

    $group['field_id1'] = $field_id1;
    $group['field_id2'] = $field_id2;
    $group_serialize = maybe_serialize( $group );

    rwmb_set_meta( $post_id, 'group_id', $group_serialize );
} );
```
Refer to the documentation https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/meta-box-group/#getting-sub-field-values
https://docs.metabox.io/rwmb-set-meta/

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February 19, 2022 at 12:31 AM #33993

Jonathan Minter
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Okay, I see what you are saying here. I might actually create a custom function to do this and then have it loop through all my existing posts and do a one-time conversion from the old fields to the new grouped field. But I think I can step forward based on the approach you've outlined here. Thanks!

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March 5, 2022 at 3:11 AM #34319
Jonathan Minter
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I'm having some trouble with this. I've taken the snippet you gave me, plus some of the documentation on rwmb_set_values, put this inside init with priority 99 as recommended. This will be a one-time process and then I will remove it. But the rmwb_set_values function is doing nothing.
```
add_action( 'init', function() {

    $sermons_a = array(
        'post_type' => 'message',
        'order' => 'DESC',
        'nopaging' => true,
    );

    $sermons_query = new WP_Query( $sermons_a );

    if ( $sermons_query->have_posts() ) {
        while ( $sermons_query->have_posts() ) {
            $sermons_query->the_post();

            // Get existing data
            $temp_audio = rwmb_meta( 'audio', '', get_the_ID() );
            $temp_video = rwmb_meta( 'video-id', '', get_the_ID() );
            $speakers = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'speaker' );
         
            $groups = array(); // since this is a cloneable field, create an array of group values
            $group = array(); // individual group value
            $group['message_media_campus'] = 12; // literal value here
            if ($speakers) {
                $group['message_media_speaker'] = $speakers[0]->term_id; // only using the first speaker
            }

            $group['message_media_audio'] = $temp_audio;
            $group['message_media_video-id'] = $temp_video;

            $groups[] = $group;

            $group_serialize = maybe_serialize( $groups );

            rwmb_set_meta( get_the_ID(), 'message_media_group', $group_serialize );

        } // end while
    } // endif
}, 99 );
```
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