Improve ACF’s select field

Hello,

I don’t really understand the feature request. The ACF Select Field is already very user friendly, as the textarea let you use values : label or simply label, and each new lines is converted to a new option in the select field.

You should provide a screenshot example of what you want to do. I’m already overwhelmed by feature requests and to be honest, your copy/paste usage seems to be really specific to your use case. Also, adding a new copy/paste mechanics for select fields will take a lot of work, for a very minimal change.

Regards.

I understand what you mean. No idea of how complicated or time consuming it is to implement. Just suggesting a feature I’ve been struggling with and hoped existed.

The idea is on the post edit end. Right now you can only:

Click => select
Copy-paste 1 value or label

The workflow bottleneck appears once you have plenty of options and allow multiple fields to select from, and you want to add 50+. Copy-paste one by one or search and select one by one is not convenient.

Then you can argue to use text field instead of select. Sure but there my explanation before that in all cases you do not want to give the client free hands to keep consistency in the output frontend.

Therefore I wondered if a feature improvement to allow copy-paste more than 1 into the select field and all will be detected.

So copy-paste into the select field 50 values separated with “,” and all will be detected if correct spelling and format are inserted.

label 1, label 2, label 3, label 4, label 5, label 6… etc

It would improve the workflow of the select field once you have more than just several values to pick from and select field is set to allow more than one.

No matter if you only have 10 or 5 it would make the workflow easier but surely more convenient once you have more.

Maybe other features are helping more users than this one but worth suggesting ??

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Rookie.

Hello,

Sorry, but I still don’t understand your feature request. You can already copy/paste 50 options as the same time, why doing it one-by-one? Please provide screenshots examples of what you want to do.

Note: If you want to control what the client is seeing, without giving him too much control, you should use code, using acf/prepare_field hook.

Regards.

Sorry, but I still don’t understand your feature request. You can already copy/paste 50 options as the same time, why doing it one-by-one? Please provide screenshots examples of what you want to do.

Not for me tried different ways.

Field:
https://tppr.me/mzhjv
Edit:
https://tppr.me/DJrPk
https://tppr.me/2vGQy
https://tppr.me/xzUp6
https://tppr.me/Vomqq
https://tppr.me/4LUex

Hello,

I never saw this feature anywhere. ACF is using Select2 JS: https://select2.org/. If you find a plugin for Select2, maybe that’s something that can be integrated.

Regards.

I see did not know it’s limitations in the library select2 JS. But I’ve brought up the question with ACF as well. I will check around and see with ACF’s support as well.

Hello,

When you enable the “Stylised UI” in the Select field, it enable Select2 JS. This library handle everything for that select field, so it’s a limitation of Select2 JS, not ACF.

Regards.

Thanks,

Passed it further to ACF to see if they can implement or want to do so.

But the solution would be to create a new field type, which ACFE could do if it’s something you would consider to support this.

And instead of native select field I would use ACFE’s extended select field. My vote is +1 but if you consider implementing it is up to you. Just send my wish through a feature request.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Rookie.