Title: Using WP_Query for a repeatable group
Last modified: February 1, 2018

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# Using WP_Query for a repeatable group

 *  Resolved [bjacobs09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bjacobs09/)
 * (@bjacobs09)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wp_query-for-a-repeatable-group/)
 * I am using a CMB2 repeatable group called ‘metric’ which is inside my custom ‘
   product_cpt’. Inside the ‘metric’ group are fields ‘type’ and ‘units’.
    Example
   data would be like: metric group 1 -Type = “A” -Units = “1” metric group 2 -Type
   = “B” -Units = “2”
 * I’m trying to build a query that searches for Type=”A” AND Units=”1″ across all
   metric groups, and return the products that have a match.
 * So far I have this but I’m not getting any results:
 *     ```
       $meta_query = array('relation' => 'AND');
       $meta_query[] = array(
                          'key' => '_product_cpt_metric_type',
                          'value' => 'A'
                           );
                         $meta_query[] = array(
                           'key' => '_product_cpt_metric_units',
                           'value' => "1"
                           );
   
       $args = array(
                           'post_type'  => 'product_cpt'
                           'orderby' => 'title',
                           'order' => 'ASC',
                           'nopaging' => true,
                           'meta_query' => $meta_query
                         );
       ```
   
 * I think the problem is that the meta keys are wrong. In the db, the meta key 
   is just ‘_product_cpt_metric’ and the value contains info for all groups. But
   then how do I specifically look for a combo of fields in one of the groups?
 * This is what the meta_value in the database for the meta_key ‘_product_cpt_metric’
   that has a group for type=A,units=1 and type=B,units=2:
    a:2:{i:0;a:2:{s:4:”type”;
   s:1:”A”;s:5:”units”;s:1:”1″;}i:1;a:2:{s:4:”type”;s:1:”B”;s:5:”units”;s:1:”2″;}}

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 *  Thread Starter [bjacobs09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bjacobs09/)
 * (@bjacobs09)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wp_query-for-a-repeatable-group/#post-9919554)
 * I figured it out:
 *     ```
       $value = array('type'=>'A', 'units'=> '1');
                         $meta_query[] = array(
                           'key' => $meta_key,
                           'value' => serialize( $value ),
                           'compare' => 'LIKE'
                           );
       ```
   

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