Remove Auto-Suggest Drop-Down

Interesting – I was going to ask the opposite. I’m wanting the auto-suggest functionality to work (listing suggestions of past tags entered), but it’s not working for me.

Rather than completely remove such functionality, I think it would be best as an option that one could turn on and off – so that both of us could get the functionality we needed ??

I’m going to dig into the plugin and see if I can figure out why it’s not working for me (i.e. listing possible suggestions of tags previously entered), and maybe will find a way to offer an on/off switch in the bargain ??

-twykr.

Hi again –

Okay – just noting that I ended up exporting the ACF definition to PHP code, and putting it into the child theme’s functions.php file. From there, to get the suggestions that I wanted, I manually queried out the past entries from the database, and added them to the ACF definitions myself (in the “available_tags” section). Here’s some code snippets, if it helps. NOTE: I’m using the generic field name of “acf_field” in my code – you’d want to replace that with your actual ACF field name / handle in the appropriate places… and you should *not* copy / paste the ACF PHP code itself, as that will not work:

// Pull any previous "acf_field" values from the wp_postmeta table
$query_acf_field = "SELECT DISTINCT meta_value FROM " . $wpdb->prefix . "postmeta WHERE meta_key = 'acf_field' ORDER BY meta_value ASC";
$pull_acf_field  = $wpdb->get_results($query_acf_field);
// declare the var and clear out any past information - just to be sure
$acf_field_values = '';
// loop through the query results, and add them to the list - each on their own line
foreach ($pull_acf_field as $by) {
  $acf_field_values .= $by->meta_value."\n";
}

And you put the output from the above query in your ACF PHP definitions, like so:

// EXAMPLE ONLY - don't copy / paste this, as it won't work. 
// Instead, look in your ACF PHP code, and find the entry that uses "tag-it" as the "type"
array (
	'key' => 'field_abcdef1234567',
	'label' => 'acf_field',
	'name' => 'acf_field',
	'type' => 'tag-it',
	'instructions' => 'Add any acf_field information you wish to appear publicly',
	'required' => 0,
	'conditional_logic' => 0,
	'wrapper' => array (
		'width' => '',
		'class' => '',
		'id' => '',
	),
	'available_tags' => $acf_field_values,
),

Note that you should be able to enforce no results for suggestions by simply having:

‘available_tags’ => ”,

HTH,
-twykr

• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by twykr.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by twykr.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by twykr.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by twykr.