Trigger bidirectionnal update during import with Wp All Import

Hello,

Thanks for the feedback!

The Bidirectional Setting works with all native ACF functions such as update_field() (See documentation). When using those functions, it will update the value on both side.

If you use field names that are not unique (ie: you have multiple fields that have the same name the bidirectional field), you could try to use field key instead of field name in the the update_field() function. Example: update_field('field_61bb43173492f', 12, $post_id).

This is because ACF will search for the field key reference related to the field name in the database, as meta values (that hold the correct reference) don’t exist yet on new posts. Then ACF will stop at the first field that has that name, and if that’s not the correct field it won’t understand it has to update it bidirectionally.

Hope it helps!

Have a nice day!

Regards.

Hi,

Thanks for your quick answer.

I manage to achieve what I wanted to do by forcing the field to be updated each time a product is imported, and it seems to do the trick.

Hello,

Okay then, I’m glad to hear it works as expected!

Have a nice day!

Regards.

Hi there,

I’m interested in how did you enforced ACF fields to be updated bidirectionally after import process, I’m walking in similar shoes as you were recently.

Thanks and regards.

Hi,

In my addon, I attached a function on the “pmxi_saved_post” action hook
see the documentation here: https://www.wpallimport.com/documentation/advanced/action-reference/#pmxi_saved_post

add_action( 'pmxi_saved_post', [$this, 'update_saved_post_acf_fields'], 10, 3);

And here is the content of the function:

public function update_saved_post_acf_fields( $post_id, $xml_node, $is_update ) {

    // Only for specified post type (if needed)
    if( get_post_type( $post_id ) != 'specific_post_type' ) {
        return;
    }

    // Ignore if acf is not installed/activated
    if( ! function_exists( 'get_field' ) || ! function_exists( 'update_field' ) ) {
        return;
    }

    // Force update of field_name's value
    $field_value = get_field( 'field_name', $post_id );

    if( $field_value ) {
        // 1 - Reset value
        $new_field_value = [];
        update_field( 'field_name', $new_field_value, $post_id );
        // 2 - Re update value (to ensure value is indeed updated)
        update_field( 'field_name', $field_value, $post_id );
    }
}

Hi,

Thanks for quick answer, really appreciate it.