Windurin

Lol @hshah I figured it had to be the wrong version cause the 2.3.16 update specifically fixed that issue. Glad it’s working for you too now.

@hshah That is the problem I was having with 2.3.15, but 2.3.16 fixed it. I did have to re-add and set up the form though. I assume you also have ‘Set as Post Title’ enabled on a certain text field in ACF?

Hi Shabti. But what I’m saying is I can’t get it to work, even with the latest update. So can you explain the process here please? If you want to use a custom field as the title, I assume you enable the ‘Set as Post Title’ option for that field, then choose None/Custom in the ACF form widget. That’s what I’ve tried but why then is it saving new custom post type slugs as IDs and not the post name? It’s nothing to do with the permalinks settings because editing and updating the post does then save the slug correctly, but a NEW post saves it as an ID/number.

Hi. Many thanks for the quick update. Custom post types are now showing in the Edit Saved Drafts section and they are saving correctly – saving as a Draft when Save as Draft is selected and publishing when it isn’t.

The only issue I have now is some pretty strange behaviour with the ACF Relationships. Let’s say I start the main Add Fan Art Artist form, click the button to save it as a Draft and submit, then I use the Add Fan Art form modal on the same page, the just-created Fan Artist post will show up in the Fan Artist Relationship field followed by (draft).

However, if I then publish that Fan Artist by loading the saved draft from the list, and submitting the form without selecting Save as Draft, it *doesn’t* show up in the Add Fan Art modal in the Fan Artist Relationship field – even though it’s actually published. The only way for it to show up after it’s been published is a hard refresh or selecting another form from the Edit Saved Drafts dropdown. It’s not a dealbreaker issue, but I just find it strange that drafts will show up immediately after in Relationship fields of other forms on the same page, but published ones don’t. Any ideas on this?

Would the upcoming Ajax feature potentially solve this? Would any newly-created posts show up in the Relationship fields regardless of what form is selected in the Edit Saved Drafts dropdown?

The final issue is that ALL drafts posts are showing in the list now, regardless of who is using the form. In the changelog, it says that that was fixed in the previous update:

‘Tweak: limited drafts shown in new post form to those submitted by author’

Was it rolled back? Because all drafts are showing in the list for me with 2 different users, one an Admin and the other an Author.

EDIT: Sorry, I should clarify: ALL drafts are showing in the list, but if they select any draft that isn’t theirs the form is empty, but of course it would be better to only show theirs in the list.

Thanks.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Windurin. Reason: Clarification

Yeah, for me at least it’s only showing up when selecting standard Post as the New Port Type option. It is saving all post types as a draft successfully when set as New Post (I can see them in the backend).

After changing Posts back to a Custom Post Type, the Edit Saved Drafts section does now show but only the draft of the standard post appears in the list, not any of the draft custom post types.

The Post Status is set as Publish but with the Save As Draft option enabled, so I assume the process would be: Save as Draft, page refreshes, and I could then add any of the sub post types like Fan Art with the modal forms on the same page, and even when the page refreshes I can still select the draft from the list. But I can’t seem to get it working as intended.

Hi, I see that a Save as Draft option was added in the recent update, which may be a good temporary solution to my problem, but although I can see the Save as Draft button, I don’t see the Edit Saved Drafts option after? What are the correct setup conditions for seeing that option? Does it show up on any form you have the option enabled that you’ve used to submit Drafts? Thanks.

Thanks for the response. That does sound like just what I’m looking for. The timeframe is reasonable and I can use a different method for now until the update is released. When you say updating every instance, do you mean when you have more than 1 form on the same page?

The setup I’m looking for would need that. It involves a main form (for a Fan Artist custom post type) that is connected to multiple Fan Art custom post types (through an ACF Relationship field). When someone adds a new Fan Artist they can also add Content (Fan Art) but the Fan Art of course needs to be created first for it to appear in the Relationship field. The setup I have at the moment has a button with modal popup for the Fan Art form. Users can add multiple new Fan Art through this modal and then fill in the Fan Artist form with the Fan Art they added. But they have to add all the sub content (Fan Art) first and then start filling out the Fan Artist form because as each Fan Art is added the page refreshes and any data they already filled in on the Fan Artist form will be lost – so they can’t start the form, realise they need to add other Fan Art, add that, and then finish the main form and submit it. They will always have to do the main form last.

I also want the Fan Art they added to be editable after they’ve added it – this is already possible by adding a posts widget showing the latest Fan Art with a custom loop made with Ele Custom Skin (so that the Edit modal button can be shown under each Fan Art post). It would be ideal if some filter could be included to show only the Fan Art they’ve just added.

So essentially, everything is working as I want it apart from the page refreshing and the main form data being lost once any posts created from other forms on the page are submitted. Hope that all makes sense!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Windurin.