Mapping ACF custom fields
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Hi,
Thank you for creating and sharing this plugin. I think it is going to prove very useful for a project I am working on. I know from looking at other posts that you don’t officially support ACF – I hope this changes, as I think they would be a powerful combination. Anyway, I have noticed that you do still try to assist with ACF-related queries.
I have used CPT UI to create a WordPress CPT called App. I made sure it supports Custom Fields. I then used ACF to add the following fields to it:
– Company (type: Text)
– LastName (type Text)I have then used Object Sync for Salesforce to map (Fieldmaps) the above fields to the corresponding ones on the standard Salesforce Lead object. NB the above are the required fields on the Salesforce Lead object.
However, I am getting the following error message in the log:
Required fields are missing: [LastName, Company]Note, if I change the mapping to use standard WordPress fields, i.e. post_title -> Last name and post_content -> Company, then it works.
Any help in fixing the error would be appreciated.
Thanks,
rt.
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I’ve looked into this off and on a bit. Here’s what I’ve discovered:
1. As you say, with the App type it doesn’t seem to make a difference whether it uses CMB2, ACF, etc. A Lead just isn’t created because of the missing required fields.
2. However, I’ve discovered that I can map a post to a Lead, with First Name, Last Name, and Company as ACF fields (in fact, using the same fieldset that was previously applied to App).This plugin treats custom post types in the same way it treats standard posts, so as far as I can tell, either:
1. There’s something different about how WordPress saves custom post type rows, or
2. There’s an unintentional difference in this plugin with custom type rows.I’d like to investigate this further as I can, but so far I do not have a full solution for you.
Edit: now that I’ve said this, as I test I’ve discovered this:
Currently, this plugin uses the
save_post_{$post->post_type}hook on custom post objects, and thesave_posthook on standard posts.I notice that in my initial testing, when I switch custom posts to also use
save_postinstead, it seems to work as expected. I’d like to do some further testing to figure out if this is reliable, and if it has any negative implications before I release it as a fix, but it’s possible this will be the fix for the issue you’ve discovered.We do not provide that kind of support. Here’s what I can do.
1. Here’s an export of the App content type I’m using. You could use this in functions.php
function cptui_register_my_cpts_app() { /** * Post Type: Apps. */ $labels = array( "name" => __( "Apps", "twenty-seventeen-child" ), "singular_name" => __( "App", "twenty-seventeen-child" ), ); $args = array( "label" => __( "Apps", "twenty-seventeen-child" ), "labels" => $labels, "description" => "", "public" => true, "publicly_queryable" => true, "show_ui" => true, "show_in_rest" => false, "rest_base" => "", "has_archive" => false, "show_in_menu" => true, "exclude_from_search" => false, "capability_type" => "post", "map_meta_cap" => true, "hierarchical" => false, "rewrite" => array( "slug" => "app", "with_front" => true ), "query_var" => true, "supports" => array( "title", "editor", "thumbnail" ), ); register_post_type( "app", $args ); } add_action( 'init', 'cptui_register_my_cpts_app' );2. Here’s an export from ACF that creates the App type’s field group. I’m not an ACF user, but presumably you could import this into ACF or use it directly in functions.php.
if(function_exists("register_field_group")) { register_field_group(array ( 'id' => 'acf_app-fields', 'title' => 'App Fields', 'fields' => array ( array ( 'key' => 'field_5aa4c207211a4', 'label' => 'First Name', 'name' => 'first_name', 'type' => 'text', 'default_value' => '', 'placeholder' => '', 'prepend' => '', 'append' => '', 'formatting' => 'html', 'maxlength' => '', ), array ( 'key' => 'field_5aa4c22b211a5', 'label' => 'Last Name', 'name' => 'last_name', 'type' => 'text', 'default_value' => '', 'placeholder' => '', 'prepend' => '', 'append' => '', 'formatting' => 'html', 'maxlength' => '', ), array ( 'key' => 'field_5aa5e97996c5d', 'label' => 'Company', 'name' => 'company', 'type' => 'text', 'default_value' => '', 'placeholder' => '', 'prepend' => '', 'append' => '', 'formatting' => 'html', 'maxlength' => '', ), ), 'location' => array ( array ( array ( 'param' => 'post_type', 'operator' => '==', 'value' => 'app', 'order_no' => 0, 'group_no' => 0, ), ), array ( array ( 'param' => 'post_type', 'operator' => '==', 'value' => 'post', 'order_no' => 0, 'group_no' => 1, ), ), ), 'options' => array ( 'position' => 'normal', 'layout' => 'no_box', 'hide_on_screen' => array ( ), ), 'menu_order' => 0, )); }3. Here’s a Gist with an export of the fieldmap I’m using to map the App object to the Lead object in this plugin. You can try saving it as a JSON file and then importing it into this plugin. https://gist.github.com/jonathanstegall/2905b53ca0cdcbb5f2da890b98fafbca
I can’t offer much beyond that, at this point, but if none of this works I would recommend to investigate the permissions and other setup in Salesforce itself.
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