Updating a New required field – data already exists

I haven’t implemented any support for bulk editing features in the CCTM. If you really have to do this, I would suggest a well constructed MySQL query(ies) to insert the required rows.

Re dev to prod: yeah, WP is not a professional system for serious dev, and the migration debacle and lack of logging functions and … oiy… I digress.

Actually all I need to do is update the value in the existing records for the newly required fields…(all!). Good idea tho, I’ll try updating the db directly.

While we’re on feature suggestions – the ability to extract a single type definition (and it’s fields) to move to another existing system and ADD it in instead of replacing would be very welcome.

As would an add-on plugin that could take stripped records from an existing definition and insert them as new records into a separate installation.

Was simple enough. Heres what I did in case it helps:

First I deleted the few existing wp_postmeta records I had with this custom field in the meta_key. Then inserted.

INSERT INTO wp_postmeta (meta_id,post_id,meta_key,meta_value) select NULL,ID,'custom_field_name','custom_field_value' from wp_posts where post_type='custom_post_type' and post_status = 'publish';

Yeah, line-item import is planned for 0.9.8: https://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/issues/detail?id=323

Glad the database manipulation worked.

This brings up a subtle, but complex point about the behavior of “default” values for fields. Iit was discussed in some detail in this post a couple weeks ago: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/default-value-behaviour?replies=7

Another way to tackle this type of thing (less intrusively) might be to do it in the view layer (i.e. in your templates): https://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/wiki/default_OutputFilter — that approach would work especially well when you’re dealing with fields that do not have values assigned to them.