Post Field Control ACF to types

Resolved gbever
(@gbever)

8 years, 10 months ago

Im having an issue with moving custom fields from ACF to types. I have posts already stored with custom fields of type wysiwyg that were created in ACF. When attempting to move control of those fields to types, it registers all of them as type multiple lines, and I no longer have formatting capability. Once I move control back to ACF, they are seen again as wysiwyg again.

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Anonymous User 14808221
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8 years, 10 months ago

It is because those are complex Fields.

ACF probably stores them in a different way and we cannot guess the array format.

Can you elaborate the Exact Steps I need to take to replicate the issue?

I can make a test with the FREE ACF version and see if that what I mention above is the source issue of the problem.

Thread Starter gbever
(@gbever)

8 years, 10 months ago

Completely understand , this would be a fringe case. The way you could replicate this ( I also use the free version of ACF ) is to add a wysiwyg custom post field using ACF to Posts and populate some data. Then install types and take control of that post type. If you return to the post and both ACF and Types are active, you will see the field twice, once displayed by ACF recognized as a wysiwyg field type, and again displayed by types, as a multiple line field type.
Anonymous User 14808221
(@anonymized-14808221)

8 years, 10 months ago
It’s expected.

Please head to Toolset > Post Fields > Post Fields control > your_acf_field and start managing it with Types.

Then click on “Change type” and see all the complex Fields disabled, and this notice:

Note: Some of the field types are disabled for conversion because they’re using a significantly different data format, which is not compatible with the current field type.

It’s not possible to convert this field.
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Thread Starter gbever
(@gbever)

8 years, 9 months ago

Ok, Thanks Beda. So in General any wysiwyg fields created with ACF will be broken after taking control of them with types it seems, which means ill just need to leave ACF installed. I would rather use types since its so much better, but I had already used ACF to start before I tried types plugin. Not a problem and thanks for your help.

Anonymous User 14808221
(@anonymized-14808221)

8 years, 9 months ago

Unfortunately there is no way for us to read their Structure, or the other way around.

Now, I read something that triggers my attention:

I would rather use types since its so much better

Would you mind to let me know why you think that?

See, I am not only interested in opinions where people say “types is worse”, but also in your opinion, on why it’s better.

This can help us to improve even more 😉

Would you mind to let me know why you think Types is better than ACF?
(I do have my reasons to believe that, but I would love to hear your side!)

Thanks

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