ACF Field Groups not showing when set to show on equal page filter

[omattman]

When creating ACF Field Groups and setting the filter for instance as:

Show this field group if:
Page is equal to SELECTED_PAGE

The ACF field isn't queryable through the pageBy with uri. This is the example of the query I ran to find this issue:

{
  pageBy(uri: "live-act") {
    id
    artistCategory {
      category_video
    }
  }
}

Which returns the error:

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "message": "Cannot query field \"artistCategory\" on type \"Page\".",
      "category": "graphql",
      "locations": [
        {
          "line": 4,
          "column": 5
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

If one remove the filter and set it to display on all pages it is perfectly queryable in the GraphQL schema.

[omattman]

Might be a duplicate of #1

[davemcnally]

I'm struggling with a similar, if not the same issue here — A field group will show up in the schema when location is all pages via post type. However if I add an and condition to rule out a specific page, it's removed entirely, even if just querying a page still allowed to show the field group by that rule.

[brianshimkus]

@omattman @jasonbahl Was a solution found for this?

[omattman]

@brianshimkus I didn't manage to find a solution. However, I changed my acf for regular pages to act as a page builder (all blocks are available to all post types of "Page"). This way I was able to source all available blocks to the pages that requested a set of the available ACF blocks.

In hindsight, it took a lot of restructuring but engineering wise it is, from my perspective, a way more maintainable and feasible solution as data flows through one controller and dispatches it to the individual pages.

[brianshimkus]

@omattman Thanks for the quick response. I ended up stripping out all of the wp-graphql plug-ins from my project and instead installed "ACF to REST API" with great success.

[omattman]

@brianshimkus I started with that plugin, and it works perfectly. I only switched to wp-graphql-acf when it was backed up by the Gatsby team themselves. You will be perfectly fine!

[AbeCole]

I believe this is similar to an issue I've just resolved, take a look at my pull request #134

[jasonbahl]

👋🏻 This has been resolved by v0.5.0 (#250)

The Location Rules have been completely re-worked and you can now set a Field Group to a specific page and it will be applied to the Page type in the Schema.

You can see this in action below:

This video also walks through the changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvrZGrcwv0Y