Editing posts

Hi, Sandra! If I’m understanding you correctly this should be doable. Let’s see if I can offer some assistance.

I would start by having two different ACF field groups, one for all your Articles data (like you already have) and one with only the revision field. Both of these point toward your Articles post type and each one also point to their respective form.

Next you should set up the revision form for post editing and also add a email notification. The tricky part is of course to get the previous post data into the email notification. This isn’t built-in but can be achieved very easily with a tiny bit of code. Add a dummy recipient when setting up your email and the use something like this to override it:

function change_revision_notification_recipient() {
  // Find ID of article being edited
  $args = AF()->submission['args'];
  $post_id = $args['post'];

  // Get name and email of article author
  $name = get_field( 'NAME_FIELD_NAME', $post_id );
  $email = get_field( 'EMAIL_FIELD_NAME', $post_id );

  // Return new recipient with name and email from existing article
  return sprintf( '%s <%s>', $name, $email );
}
add_filter( 'af/form/email/recipient/key=FORM_KEY', 'change_revision_notification_recipient', 10, 0 );

The reason this should work is when you are doing post editing you need to set the “post” argument to a post ID. This code simply uses the post ID to lookup name and email from the existing article and then uses that to set the recipient of the email.

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Hope this helps! 🙂