Title: ACF Links
Last modified: December 14, 2022

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# ACF Links

 *  Resolved [psynegy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psynegy/)
 * (@psynegy)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/acf-links/)
 * We use ACF to upload and attach files to pages/posts. Some of our staff aren’t
   very good at deleting a file once they’ve removed the ACF entry.
 * What I’d like to be able to do is have a way to display if a file has an active
   connection to the ACF field we use to connect files to posts/pages (or perhaps
   how many connections it has).
 * I’ve tried creating a custom field with the following settings:
 * Data Source: Template
    Meta/Template: ([+acf:files(count)+]) (‘files’ is the 
   field name)
 * Any ideas where I’m going wrong?
 * Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Author [David Lingren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dglingren/)
 * (@dglingren)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/acf-links/#post-16291023)
 * Thanks for your question and for the custom field mapping rule excerpt. I’d like
   to get more information so I can give you specific guidance.
 * It looks like you found the “MLA Advanced Custom Fields Example” plugin; is that
   right?
 * If so, is the example plugin installed and active? Do you see the “MLA AC Fields”
   submenu in the Settings section?
 * Is the “files” field an ACF Image field? If so, have you checked the “Enable 
   Image Fields” box on the example plugin’s General tab?
 * Can you post the complete custom field rule so I can duplicate it on my system?
 * Thanks for any additional information you can provide.
 *  Plugin Author [David Lingren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dglingren/)
 * (@dglingren)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/acf-links/#post-16383245)
 * It has been a month since the last post in this topic. I hope you have found 
   a solution that works for your application.I am marking this topic resolved, 
   but please update it if you have any problems or further questions regarding 
   the topic.

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 * Last activity: [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/acf-links/#post-16383245)
 * Status: resolved