Title: conditional-fields-cf7 support
Last modified: November 24, 2022

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# conditional-fields-cf7 support

 *  Resolved [georgepennet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/georgepennet/)
 * (@georgepennet)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-fields-cf7-support/)
 * Hi.
 * I bought you pro API and everything works great but the problem is that your 
   plugin doesn’t support conditional fields plugin.
 * I made a groups with that plugin. If client will choose one option then group“
   group1” will be visible. If he choose other option then group “group2” should
   be visible.
 * In email message it looks like this:
 * [group1]Message1[/group1][group2]Message2[/group2]
 * And it actually works. Depending on the answer it will show Message1 or Message2.
 * On PDF it doesn’t work – I can see only full code. I thought that everything 
   that works with email will also work on PDF. Any solution?

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 *  Plugin Author [maximum.software](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maximumsoftware/)
 * (@maximumsoftware)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-fields-cf7-support/#post-16237375)
 * Hi,
 * I did not realize your use case wasn’t working, but I looked into it and here
   is what I concluded:
 * The problem is not that my plugin doesn’t support the [Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-conditional-fields/)
   plugin. As far as I can tell, the problem is that the [Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-conditional-fields/)
   plugin doesn’t hook into the `wpcf7_mail_replace_tags()` function to handle groups
   in mail-tags, and that the [Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/)
   plugin doesn’t provide an easy way for [Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-conditional-fields/)
   to hook into the `wpcf7_mail_replace_tags()` function.
 * The groups are working in the email message because [Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-conditional-fields/)
   plugin has code that handles groups in email message (see function `hide_hidden_mail_fields()`).
   However, as far as I can tell, this code doesn’t run for mail-tags that are outside
   of CF7 form properties (including when `wpcf7_mail_replace_tags()` is called).
   My plugin calls `wpcf7_mail_replace_tags()` to process mail-tags, so, the [Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-conditional-fields/)
   groups never get processed.
 * I will explain how to make it work with my plugin (as a temporary workaround).
   
   Change this line in my plugin’s main PHP file:
 *     ```
       $data[$field] = wpcf7_mail_replace_tags( $mapping["mail_tags"] );
       ```
   
 * To the following:
 *     ```
       $data[$field] = wpcf7_mail_replace_tags( $mapping["mail_tags"] );
       if( class_exists( 'Wpcf7cfMailParser' ) )
       {
       	$hidden_groups = json_decode(stripslashes($_POST['_wpcf7cf_hidden_groups']));
       	$visible_groups = json_decode(stripslashes($_POST['_wpcf7cf_visible_groups']));
       	$repeaters = json_decode(stripslashes($_POST['_wpcf7cf_repeaters']));
       	$parser = new Wpcf7cfMailParser($data[$field], $visible_groups, $hidden_groups, $repeaters, $_POST);
       	$data[$field] = $parser->getParsedMail();
       }
       ```
   
 * Image embeds, file name, and save path mail-tag processing code will need a similar
   change if you want to use conditional field groups there as well.
 * I will not be adding the above code into my plugin because this is a responsibility
   of the [Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-conditional-fields/)
   plugin developer and the [Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/)
   plugin developer, unless someone can prove otherwise.
 * Even if I moved the mail-tag containing settings of my plugin into [Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/)
   form properties, that is still not going to solve the problem because [Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-conditional-fields/)
   plugin only seems to process ‘mail’, ‘mail_2’, and ‘messages’ properties.
 * Please contact the developers of both plugins and direct them to this forum topic.
 * Thank you.
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by [maximum.software](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maximumsoftware/).
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by [maximum.software](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maximumsoftware/).

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 * Last activity: [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-fields-cf7-support/#post-16237375)
 * Status: resolved