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Proper way to clone a custom field

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  • June 20, 2019 at 4:53 AM #14999
    Bruno Faúndez ValenzuelaBruno Faúndez Valenzuela
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    Hi. I created a Custom Field Type to add service IDs to Hotels (which is a CPT). I defined the field type as: tb-service-id. Then I add this field to the corresponding metabox. I've set:

    'clone' => true

    and the button to clone the field appears, but the field is generated with the same ID as the other one:

    _hotel_tb_service_id[0]

    In the html mehod of the Custom Field Type I create a select and set the ID to the variable: $field['id'] which gives the value: '_hotel_tb_service_id[0]'.

    Any help would be much appreciated

    June 20, 2019 at 2:42 PM #15009
    Anh TranAnh Tran
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    Hi Bruno,

    Please try to set a custom CSS class for the inputs which starts with rwmb. See here to understand how the clone works.

    June 21, 2019 at 2:53 AM #15032
    Bruno Faúndez ValenzuelaBruno Faúndez Valenzuela
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    Thank you so much! It worked perfectly!
    It would be good to see a comment about the relation of the css class and the "cloneability" of the field in the documentation of the RWMB_Field Class.

    Have a great day 🙂

    September 17, 2019 at 1:42 AM #16161
    Bruno Faúndez ValenzuelaBruno Faúndez Valenzuela
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    Hi. I'm getting some weird behaviour related to this. My custom field has some selects that are used to filter asyncronously a list with the option for the field. The custom field looks like this:

    [Service Type]
    [Service Region]
    [Service]

    All of those three inputs are selects but only the last one is the value that should be stored. It's wrapped as a vue.js app and when you select one of the [Service Type] or [Service Region] options, the [Service] select is populated with data.

    The [Service] select has the class rwmb-vueselect so it can be detected by the plugin.

    With a single input it works well, but when I clone it, the data of the first input stores the [Service Region] selection of the second field and the second field stores it's proper data from its [Service]. Is there any way to explicitly say which fields should be stored?

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