Display ACF for woocommerce variations in backend

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// Render fields at the bottom of variations - does not account for field group order or placement.
add_action( 'woocommerce_product_after_variable_attributes', function( $loop, $variation_data, $variation ) {
    global $abcdefgh_i; // Custom global variable to monitor index
    $abcdefgh_i = $loop;
    // Add filter to update field name
    add_filter( 'acf/prepare_field', 'acf_prepare_field_update_field_name' );
    
    // Loop through all field groups
    $acf_field_groups = acf_get_field_groups();
    foreach( $acf_field_groups as $acf_field_group ) {
        foreach( $acf_field_group['location'] as $group_locations ) {
            foreach( $group_locations as $rule ) {
                // See if field Group has at least one post_type = Variations rule - does not validate other rules
                if( $rule['param'] == 'post_type' && $rule['operator'] == '==' && $rule['value'] == 'product_variation' ) {
                    // Render field Group
                    acf_render_fields( $variation->ID, acf_get_fields( $acf_field_group ) );
                    break 2;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    
    // Remove filter
    remove_filter( 'acf/prepare_field', 'acf_prepare_field_update_field_name' );
}, 10, 3 );

// Filter function to update field names
function  acf_prepare_field_update_field_name( $field ) {
    global $abcdefgh_i;
    $field['name'] = preg_replace( '/^acf\[/', "acf[$abcdefgh_i][", $field['name'] );
    return $field;
}
    
// Save variation data
add_action( 'woocommerce_save_product_variation', function( $variation_id, $i = -1 ) {
    // Update all fields for the current variation
    if ( ! empty( $_POST['acf'] ) && is_array( $_POST['acf'] ) && array_key_exists( $i, $_POST['acf'] ) && is_array( ( $fields = $_POST['acf'][ $i ] ) ) ) {
        foreach ( $fields as $key => $val ) {
            update_field( $key, $val, $variation_id );
        }
    }
}, 10, 2 );

These snippets were very helpful and worked great! Thanks for sharing 👍

Thanks for sharing, very useful!

This is sooo good. Thank you. The last bit I'm really struggling with is getting at the saved data on the front end. I have variable products with a relationship field in each and I can edit and save data correctly on the back end, but I can't work out how to access that data on the front end. I've been trying to access it via the variation product's meta data but it isn't saved there - or at least it's not returned as part of the array in get_post_meta($variation_id);

Any ideas?

Hi @artprojectgroup, I need to populate "ordinary" acf fields and also relational fields for variable products. your snippet works perfect for relational fields while the other first one for the other acf fields. As I am not familiar whit coding I failed combining the two snippets into one. Can you please give me a hint? Or maybe you @nathanaelphilip or @sulym-roman ??