[Resolved] Adding a repeating field entry whilst preserving existing entries

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[Greig Neilson]

My CPT is an application. The user submits the application which is then processed. The processing stage may take some time, during which the user may want to add further comments to that record. What I don't want is for the user to edit or delete the previous comments they have made, hence a normal implementation of a CRED form field is no good here.

The slug for this field is "caregiver-comments-application"

I have a form with which the user can edit their application. I have used a [types field=] to display previous comments. I have then created a generic field as follows:

[cred_generic_field field='caregiver-comments-application-add' type='textarea' class='' urlparam='']
{
"required":0,
"validate_format":0,
"default":"",
"persist":1
}
[/cred_generic_field]

I have a function that looks like this:

add_action('cred_save_data', 'add_caregiver_comment_to_application',10,2);
function add_caregiver_comment_to_application($post_id, $form_data)
{
// if a specific form
if ($form_data['id']==6973)

{
if (isset($_POST['caregiver-comments-application-add']))
{
// add it to saved post meta
add_post_meta($post_id, '__caregiver-comments-application', $_POST['caregiver-comments-application-add'], true);
}
}
}

I borrowed the code above from here: https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/

Thanks in advance 🙂

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

So - the code you added to your current theme's functions.php file do not work?

[Greig Neilson]

Hi Minesh, it definitely doesn't work 🙁

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Could you please share problem URL and share one test case example what you want to hide and what you want to show and where?

Do you mean in admin section you do not want to allow to delete repeating field entry or on frontend?

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[Nigel Supporter Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Timezone: Europe/London (GMT+01:00)]

Hi Greig

Minesh is absent today so let me see if I can help you.

Looking at your code sample I can see two problems with your add_post_meta call.

1. The key for Types custom fields is the field slug with the prefix "wpcf-", so in your case that should be "wpcf-caregiver-comments-application"

2. The final argument is the $unique parameter and is set to 'true'. From the documentation: "When set to true, the custom field will not be added if the given key already exists among custom fields of the specified post." (https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_post_meta.) This should be set to false.

Can you try changing the above and see if it works?