Cannot convert an ACF Gallery field to Toolset Custom Field

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Last updated by Shane 4 years, 2 months ago.

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September 10, 2020 at 6:20 pm #1772433

MichaelR9215

Hello,

I have been migrating a website, and converting many plugins to Toolset instead. Everything has been going smoothly so far, but when I use the Post Field Control tool for a gallery field that was created with ACF, none of the images get pulled into the new Toolset custom field.

The only option I see is to use the Image custom field in Toolset and to set it for multiple imgaes.

I am attaching a screenshot of the existed database table. I am not sure Toolset can convert the database entries correctly.

Please advise.

September 10, 2020 at 7:17 pm #1772513

Shane

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Hi Michael,

Thank you for getting in touch.

Unfortunately you won't be able to convert this field to a types field. Given that toolset doesn't have an equivalent gallery field. What we have is a image field that can have multiple images attached as you can see.

Usually these complex fields from ACF are stored differently from how we store our images in Toolset. The best you can do here is perhaps to completely migrate the data to a toolset field. This would have to be done manually.

Thanks,
Shane