Bit Form Integration With ACF

ACF Integration allows you to easily add advanced custom fields to your website & integrate them with Bit Form fields. This ACF integration makes it possible to create custom post types & custom fields & lets us collect data & manage those with Bit Form. Using a simple ACF setup you can now create any post via Bit Form submission. This integration makes it convenient for the admin panel to visualize large amounts of data more preciously. The possibilities are endless, and we are sure that you will find this documentation useful.

Create custom post type & fields using ACF plugin :

Here, we will demonstrate an example of a Photo Album to show how you can integrate custom advanced fields with Bit Form fields. Follow the below instructions:

1. For the ACF integration, make sure you have installed the ACF plugin successfully on your WordPress dashboard.

2. Create a post type according to your preference. Here we have already created a type of Photo Albums. Also created categories- Travel & Festival

3. As we have created Photo Albums as a custom post type earlier, we will create some custom fields under the type.

4. Navigate to the Custom Fields & click on Add New to create a field group under your post type. Then set a name for the field group. Here we have created a new field group called Photo Album.

5. Create your required fields from the option Add Fields. Give the necessary credentials like – Field label, Field Name, Field Type, etc, which are required for your use case.

6. For the demonstration purpose, we have created three fields – Event location, Gallery, and Event Date.

7. Now, click on Publish/Update to save the field settings.

Create a form using Bit Form:

It’s time to create a form using Bit Form where you have to integrate the ACF fields created in the earlier steps.

1. After the ACF settings, navigate to Bit Form & click on Create Form. Then select Blank form.

2. Drag and drop a text field & name it as Post Title. Then select the other fields from the toolbar related to the custom fields you have created on ACF & set the fields settings similar to ACF settings. Here we have taken three fields – Drop-down field, File upload field and text field & named those as Event Location, Gallery, & Event Date.

3. After completing all the field settings, save the form.

Integration Settings:

After finishing the creation part, move to the integration part where you have to map ACF fields with Bit Form fields to create a post via form submission.

1. Follow the path: Settings => Integrations => Click on (+) => Click on ACF.

2. After navigating to the integration page, select the Post Type you have created for the integration. For example, we have selected a Photo Album as post type.

3. Now, select Post Status, Author & Comment Status according to the requirement.

4. For the field mapping option you have to configure three types of mapping –

• At first map the form fields with the general/default post fields.
• Then map the form fields with the related “ACF fields”.
  • Note: Right now, Bit Form doesn’t support all the ACF fields
• Lastly map the file upload field.

5. Save all the integration settings

  Note

Make sure ACF field type & Bit Form field type have to be same

6. After completing the settings, you have to set the conditions when this integration works. Don’t forget to specify the integration name; otherwise, the integration will not work correctly. Here we have set the condition that – whenever records are created/ edited, on form submission the integration will be triggered. At last click on Update button.

7. Now, whenever a user submits the data it will be posted as content on the created custom post type option. Admin can edit those data if needed. Also, all the submitted data will be stored on the Form Responses page. Admin can view & manage those data.