[Resolved] Repeating Fields Groups – Accesible by API / Functions or just Views GUI

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[Geoffrey Cleverley]

Hi there,

I am moving a site over from using CMB2 to take advantage of the upcoming relationships API.

It contains repeating fields but using CMB2, they are just stored as a serialized array in post meta.

From reading the documentation, it seems Toolset stores them within a hidden CPT, and all I can see is tutorials for accessing them by using a View/GUI.

I wasn't intending to use Views for this project. Do you have documentation for how to access them with API Functions?

Thanks again

Jeff

[Luo Yang]

Dear Jeff,

There isn't exact document for the Repeating Fields Groups API, but it is using child post type to store the Repeating Fields Groups , so you can use function toolset_get_related_posts() to get the child posts, then display custom field of each child post, for example:
1) Create a Repeating Fields Groups "my-fields-group" in post type "my-cpt", add some custom field into the field group
2) In the your theme file single.php, add below codes:

$child_posts = toolset_get_related_posts( 
	get_the_ID(), //Post to query by.
	'my-fields-group',  //Slug of the relationship to query by 
	'parent', //Name of the element role to query by.
	100, //Maximum number of returned results
	0, //Result offset
	array(),//Additional query arguments
	'post_id', //Determines return type
	'child' // which posts from the relationship should be returned
);
var_dump($child_posts);

As you can see the last parameter is "child", it will be able to query the child posts of current post.

More help:
https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/post-relationships-api/#toolset_get_related_posts

[Geoffrey Cleverley]

Hey Luo,

That's great thanks.

Jeff

[Luo Yang]

You are welcome