Title: Form Loading Values From Previous Entry
Last modified: August 31, 2022

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# Form Loading Values From Previous Entry

 *  Resolved Anonymous User 13711045
 * (@anonymized-13711045)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-loading-values-from-previous-entry/)
 * I have a form that submits a new post. Works fine. However, when I go back to
   that page to submit a new post, the values from the previous entry are pre-populated.
   I have not set any fields to load.

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 *  Plugin Author [Konrad Chmielewski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hwk-fr/)
 * (@hwk-fr)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-loading-values-from-previous-entry/#post-15967631)
 * Hello,
 * Thanks for the feedback!
 * Yes this is the normal behavior of form submission. This feature is handled by
   your browser. The same bahvior can be seen on WordPress.org for example, [see video demo](https://i.imgur.com/d4Ipf0E.mp4).
 * Hope it’s now more clear.
 * Have a nice day!
 * Regards.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 13711045
 * (@anonymized-13711045)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-loading-values-from-previous-entry/#post-15967637)
 * Can I disable it? I want the form to be blank on the next submission. And to 
   be clear, when I say go back, I didn’t literally mean go back in my history. 
   I mean go to a few pages first, then go back to that page.
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Anonymous User 13711045.
 *  Plugin Author [Konrad Chmielewski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hwk-fr/)
 * (@hwk-fr)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-loading-values-from-previous-entry/#post-15967647)
 * Hello,
 * As explained in my previous answer, this feature is handled by your browser. 
   You can try to make some research on Google about “chrome form autofill press
   back button” (if you use Chrome for example).
 * Hope it helps!
 * Regards.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 13711045
 * (@anonymized-13711045)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-loading-values-from-previous-entry/#post-15967652)
 * I updated my previous response. I don’t literally mean when I press back. I mean
   when I navigate to that page again later on.
 *  Plugin Author [Konrad Chmielewski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hwk-fr/)
 * (@hwk-fr)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-loading-values-from-previous-entry/#post-15967684)
 * Hello,
 * What do you mean by “then go back to that page”. Do you click on a link that 
   goes to the form? Then the inputs shouldn’t be prefilled.
 * Maybe you have some browser settings or plugins that prefill forms for you. I
   would recommend to disable all your browser plugins, or try a new browser, see
   how it behave.
 * [Here is a video](https://i.imgur.com/qCruAJ9.mp4) showing the form with empty
   inputs when visited thru a link.
 * Regards.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 13711045
 * (@anonymized-13711045)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-loading-values-from-previous-entry/#post-15967765)
 * After digging, it’s happening because of the ‘acf/load_value’ filter. The post
   ID being passed to it is ‘acfe_form-16’.
 *  Plugin Author [Konrad Chmielewski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hwk-fr/)
 * (@hwk-fr)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-loading-values-from-previous-entry/#post-15967826)
 * Hello,
 * Which `acf/load_value`? Is it in your code? Can you please be more precise?
 * There is only 3 `acf/load_value` in the whole ACF Extended code, and they are
   related to specific ACF fields advanced settings.
 * The `acfe_form-16` post id is normal, as it is generated on the fly during the
   form render to allow the injection of values based on the form configuration.
   This allow the same form to be rendered multiple times on the same page while
   having different loaded values if needed.
 * If you use `acf/load_value` you should always check which kind of `$post_id` 
   it uses with `acf_get_post_id_info()` for example, since ACF have multiple post
   id types:
 *     ```
       $post_id  12
       $id       12   
       $type     post 
   
       $post_id  term_46
       $id       46     
       $type     term   
   
       $post_id  user_22
       $id       22     
       $type     user   
   
       $post_id  my-option
       $id       my-option
       $type     option   
   
       $post_id  comment_89
       $id       89        
       $type     comment   
   
       etc...
       ```
   
 * Hope it helps!
 * Regards.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 13711045
 * (@anonymized-13711045)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-loading-values-from-previous-entry/#post-15967828)
 * Some more info, this is for a taxonomy term field. Line 1121 of field-taxonomy-
   terms.php has this…
 * `$term_ids = wp_get_object_terms($info['id'], $taxonomy, array('fields' => 'ids','
   orderby' => 'none'));`
 * The object ID being supplied is ‘acfe_form-16’. For whatever reason, this is 
   returning previously submitted values.
 * The solution I found is to turn off ‘Load Terms’ setting for the taxonomy term
   field until this is fixed.
 *  Plugin Author [Konrad Chmielewski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hwk-fr/)
 * (@hwk-fr)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-loading-values-from-previous-entry/#post-15967839)
 * Yes, I wouldn’t recommend to enable the “Load Terms” setting on a field that 
   is rendered on the front-end, otherwise the field will try to load the terms 
   of the current front-end page.
 * Unfortunately, this is a limitation of the native ACF “Load Terms” setting (which
   is replicated from the ACF Taxonomy Field to the ACF Extended Taxonomy Terms 
   field). It doesn’t make any difference between front-end and back-end.
 * Regarding the post id, see my previous answer for detailed explanations.
 * Regards.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 13711045
 * (@anonymized-13711045)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-loading-values-from-previous-entry/#post-15967858)
 * Okay cool. Looks like `$object_ids = array_map( 'intval', $object_ids );` in 
   the `wp_get_object_terms` function is what is causing the issue. Was returning
   an array with a single value of 0. You can close this.
 *  Plugin Author [Konrad Chmielewski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hwk-fr/)
 * (@hwk-fr)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-loading-values-from-previous-entry/#post-15967871)
 * Roger that, it’s done!
 * Have a nice day!
 * Regards.

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