[Closed] Multiple instance values don't get export

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[leonardM-2]

Hi there,
We have a website build using WooCommerce and toolset. We added custom fields for WooCommerce using Toolset. The field type is File and it has "Allow multiple instaces of this field" set YES .

When we export the post's data, the meta data field contains the value of only last item. We are wondering if there is a way we can export the values of all instance of that post.

[Nigel]

What tool are you using to export the data?

If you have a custom field that accepts multiple values, it just means that there can be multiple entries in wp_postmeta with the same key for a post. That is not particular to Toolset, it's just normal WordPress.

If you look at the function get_post_meta for example (https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/), you'll see the final parameter is whether to return a single value, which if false returns an array of all of the values for the field with that key for that post.

So it sounds like a problem with the tool you use to export the data, which isn't handling multiple entries in wp_postmeta, even though that is just a standard feature of WordPress.