Update user ACF field

Hi @henrim01

Yes, is completely possible

First, from the Fluent Forms integration you can use the tags feature to pass any field value entered to the actions you want, there is a document explaining the tags:
https://automatorwp.com/docs/getting-started/tags/

And from the action, the unique you need is to correctly pass the meta key to be sure you are updating the correct meta to your users

Hope it helps

Hi @rubengc

Thanks for the quick reply. Happy to hear that it is possible to fill out created ACF fields for a user profile. Unfortunately I couldn’t get it to work. I looked at your article and I think I’m doing it right, but nothing happens. To illustrate what I’ve done to test it, I created a recording. Could you point me in the right direction what I’m doing wrong?

Recording using AutomatorWP to fill out user_meta and users fields

Help would be greatly appreciated ??

Hi @henrim01

The issue is that on meta keys you are placing tags instead of the meta key name

Tags are replaced by a dynamic value, for example, the user meta “happy” has the value “yes”, the tag “{user_meta:happy}” will be replaced by “yes”

So in your automation you are saying: Set the value X to the meta key “yes”

In your automation, you need to replace the meta key options:
“{user_meta:happy}” by “happy”
“{user_meta:description}” by “description”
“{last_name}” by “last_name”

Hope it helps

Hi @rubengc

Thanks for the tip. I changed the meta keys and now they work. However, am I doing something wrong still with the meta values based on the Fluent Forms names? It doesn’t pass anything. When I put a value directly it does, but by using the following codes: {1:form_field:test} for happy and the {1:form_field:email} for description, those fields keep empty.

Hi @henrim01

For the form tags, be always sure about 2 things:

1) Add the tag from the dropdown, since the first number, refers to the trigger ID and it changes if you have removed a trigger

For example, for the tag {1:form_field:FIELD_NAME} if you have placed manually the tag, is possible that the trigger ID is not “1”, so the easiest way is choose the tag from the tags dropdown to get the correct trigger ID

2) For Fluent Forms tags, be sure to place the correct field name

A way you can check this is, after complete a trigger of Fluent Forms, AutomatorWP stores a log entry, on this entry, you are able to see the form fields and values received

Hope it helps

Hi @rubengc

I just checked the log and it is empty.

However, I did use the tag dropdown. Here are the screenshots of all settings that I’m using for the setup:

• Fluent Form
• tag field in automation
• filled out metafield in automation

So why does it show up empty in the log of the trigger?

Hi @henrim01

You are completely right

We just released a new update fixing this issue, now the fields submitted should get correctly detected

Thank you so much for your report and for help make AutomatorWP much better!

Best regards