taxonomy field not saving terms for the custom post

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August 1, 2019 at 8:18 PM #15547

Resolved Akram ul haq
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Hi,

No doubt metabox io saved a lot of time but I need your help here badly. I have a taxonomy which I don’t want to show up on post screen but want to show in a group once certain key is selected. I am doing it right and my field is showing as well.

But once I save the field it did not set to my post as taxonomy but saved in the post meta. How can I do that with taxonomy field ? As documentation states that I should be able to do it but what’s causing it to not save, I copied code from your taxonomy page and taxonomy field is showing fine.

Only issue is its saving to meta box table not setting as post terms.

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August 2, 2019 at 11:07 AM #15562

Anh Tran
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Hi Akram,

Did you put the taxonomy field in a group? Only in that case, the taxonomy terms are saved in the group’s meta value and don’t set the post terms.

August 2, 2019 at 5:14 PM #15574

Akram ul haq
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Hi Anh,

Thanks for your replies. Yes my friend I did so and I need that as well. Than can you provide me any better solution for this ? So, I can set it to work like I needed. Because I don’t want to show taxonomy in the post edit screen for certain requirements but want to have inside my group …

Will I have to set those terms as my own ? Or any better solution is available for this ?

Thanks

August 2, 2019 at 10:01 PM #15584

Anh Tran
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Hi Akram,

If you want to set post terms, you have to move the taxonomy field outside the group. You can use Meta Box Conditional Logic to hide the field if you want. If you still need to keep it inside a group, then there’s no way to achieve that.

August 3, 2019 at 4:27 PM #15587

Akram ul haq
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Hi,

Thanks for your reply but I personally feel its not a professional way by any means .. as it adds limitation to metabox io … !!!

Nothing is impossible so the answer is I have to do it at my own … a lot of hype came to end that metabox io does every thing and bla bla bla … 🙁

Can I rate this plugin any where ? I have to put my frustration there …

Thanks by the way …

August 3, 2019 at 4:52 PM #15588
Anh Tran
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Hi Akram,

Sorry to make you feel like that. What I meant is that’s the default behavior of the fields.

You still can change the behavior with the plugin action, like this:
```
add_action( 'rwmb_after_save_post', function( $post_id ) {
    $group = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'group_id', true );
    $terms = $group['terms'] ?? [];

    wp_set_post_terms( $post_id, $terms, 'your_taxonomy' );
} );
```
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