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  • September 17, 2020 at 7:11 PM #21920
    Resolved wgstjf
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    Hi guys,

    Not sure if I'm overlooking something here but I am only getting a single result when using rwmb_meta to retrieve values for a checkbox list field. You will be able to see from the screenshot that there are two matching the post in question (#768). What am I doing wrong??

    
$post_services = (!empty(rwmb_meta('post_services'))) ? rwmb_meta('post_services') : '';

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    Thanks in advance,

    Will

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  • September 17, 2020 at 10:43 PM #21923
    Long Nguyen
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    Hi,

    Using the helper function for this field always returns an array so you need to loop through it to show the value. Please follow this documentation https://docs.metabox.io/fields/checkbox-list/#template-usage.

    September 17, 2020 at 11:24 PM #21926
    wgstjf
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    Hi Long, not sure if I didn't explain it properly.

    The issue is that I am NOT getting an array but instead a single value. I am expecting an array containing both values (in this example) but not getting one...

    Any thoughts?

    Will

    September 18, 2020 at 7:40 AM #21930
    Long Nguyen
    Moderator

    Hi Will,

    Please share the code that you've used to create the checkbox list and get/show the field value. I will make a test on my local site.

    September 18, 2020 at 4:24 PM #21939
    wgstjf
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    Morning Long and thanks for staying with this. Very strange events here...I tried a few debugging options including resorting to default themes, trying different versions of MB and re-coding the function initialising the metaboxes, all with not joy. I then put it all back as it was and suddenly I am getting the desired array returned. I have no idea what happened here...but it is seemingly all working properly now.

    Thanks.

    Will

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