Title: [Plugin: Advanced Custom Fields] Adding Custom Fields to the Create Groups workflow
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Advanced Custom Fields] Adding Custom Fields to the Create Groups workflow

 *  [Larry LaSalle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llasalle/)
 * (@llasalle)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-custom-fields-adding-custom-fields-to-the-create-groups-workflow/)
 * I want to capture some additional data points during the create group process.
   Most of the data will be from dropdown lists and radio options. I’m using BuddyPress
   1.5.4 and a custom theme called Salutation. Using ACF, I created one test field
   called “Group Type” with two values in the list. I generated the PHP code and
   placed it my function.php file for my theme. I’m trying to add this field to 
   the first step of the Create Group workflow, and that page is not available in
   the Location rules section of ACF. Therefore, I was attempting to use this code:
   <p><?php the_field(‘field_name’); ?></p>, in the template-bp-groups-create.php
   file, but when I use that I don’t see the field appearing. Can anyone help me
   understand which step I may have missed or what I am doing wrong?
 * Thank you!
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