API – multiselect field value cannot be updated

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  • Plugin Support Dmytro – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport16)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Hi there @matlino

    Would you mind sharing the code you’re trying to use to get this to work?

    If it’s a lot, maybe add as a gist and paste a link here. Or upload as a text file to Dropbox or Google Drive maybe and share the download link.

    We’ll have a look for you and see if we can help get this working for you. 🙂

    Cheers!
    Patrick

    Thread Starter matlino

    (@matlino)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Hi @wpmudevsupport16 ,
    it’s a really simple use case. For example, I try to update the entry of another form inside ‘forminator_custom_form_submit_before_set_fields’ hook. If the field names I want to update (e.g. text-3) are the same I can just use $field_data_array directly to update the entry of another form successfully. 

    
add_action('forminator_custom_form_submit_before_set_fields', function($entry, $form_id, $field_data_array) {
  Forminator_API::update_form_entry( FORM_ID, ENTRY_ID, $field_data_array );
}

    But it doesn’t work with select fields. It also doesn’t work when I create $entry_meta as in docs https://premium.wpmudev.org/docs/api-plugin-development/forminator-api-docs/. I try to extract values from both $entry and $field_data_array but if I remember correctly they are in the same format. Anyway, neither one is working.

    I couldn’t update the value of a select field in any way. Although, I am able to update the values of other fields.

    Tomas

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by matlino.
    Plugin Support Laura – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support8)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Hi @matlino

    I’ve consulted it with our developers and it’s mostly a matter of “data structure”. To update multi-select type fields, you’d need to use an array within array like in this example: 

    $field_data_array = array(
	array(
		'name' => 'select-1',
		'value' => json_encode(
						array(
							0 => 'apple',
							1 => 'orange'
						)
		)
	)
)

    I hope that helps!

    Best regards,
    Adam

    Plugin Support Amin – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support2)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Hello @matlino ,

    We haven’t heard from you for a while now, so it looks like you don’t have more questions for us.

    Please feel free to re-open this ticket if needed.

    kind regards,
    Kasia

    Thread Starter matlino

    (@matlino)

    5 years, 2 months ago

    Hello @wpmudev-support2 ,
    I am sorry for the delayed answer. It’s working based on your example.
    For everybody else having this use case, it seems ‘json_encode’ did the trick. That’s why you cannot just copy the value from $field_data_array or use $field_data_array as an argument to ‘update_form_entry’ API method.

    Thank you for your help,
    Tomas

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