Feature Request: Separate ACF Fields by Post Type in Bricks Builder

Feature Requests / Improvements
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Update: Official Request has been added to the idea board: Ideas – Bricks

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I don’t like the way Bricks mixes all ACF fields together. When I query a post type, I only expect to see the related fields for that post type. As illustrated in this image, all fields for both post types get displayed together. In this example, I have two post types: Authors and Books. Here is the ACF structure:

Custom Post type: Author
Fields:
author_name (Text)
author_biography (WYSIWYG Editor)
author_photo (Image)
books (Relationship Field)

Custom Post type: Books
Fields:
book_title (Text)
book_description (WYSIWYG Editor )
book_price (Number )
authors (Relationship Field)

In this particular case I added the prefix of the post type to the field names. Now imagine I didn’t.

The issue: When you have multiple post types with multiple fields, things feel messy to work with. If I am querying Authors why am I seeing the Book post type fields? I should see those fields if I am querying a relationship field.

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Bricks - show only related ACF CPT fields?
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This is much-needed! Please also add it to the official idea board at Ideas – Bricks so that others can vote on it.

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Really good feature.

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Great idea. Will look much cleaner

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That’s interesting, I’ve used Pods with Bricks and each post type and taxonomy have a header with their fields and not just all under one section.

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Same here, using Meta Box. Seems like maybe a odd behaviour specific to ACF.

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It can be a pain, especially coming from MB and now having 200+ ACF fields but using ACF groups helps :wink:

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I added it to the idea board, but the Bricks Team needs to manually approve the request. I’m currently waiting for their review.

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Need this! It gets confusing when having multiple CPT’s.

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@timmse I believe this is something that is a small improvement but with a big impact. As of right now I have 6 CPT’s in my client build. Inside Bricks I didn’t know it wouldnt segment it by the CPT, so now I am stuck with an overall called “ACF” where I have multiple that is called “acf-section-2-text”. At this point is it so confusing. If I change the fields name to “acf-“cpt-name”-section-2-text” in order for me to label stuff, I have to re-attach each field, which will also suck.

Really hope you will improve this soon :smiley:

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