{"id":14435,"date":"2022-02-09T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T10:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wp-crm.com\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=14435"},"modified":"2023-06-20T15:57:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T12:57:07","slug":"filter-wp-crm-system-custom-field-separator","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.wp-crm.com\/docs\/filter-wp-crm-system-custom-field-separator\/","title":{"rendered":"Filter: WP-CRM System Custom Field Separator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\u00a0<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#253c55\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>wpcrm_system_custom_field_separator<\/strong><\/mark> filter is used when importing custom fields with one of the import plugins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By default, this returns a pipe character &#8220;|&#8221; as the character to separate multiple values for repeater text, repeater textarea, repeater date, and repeater file fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon import, the plugin will separate each value your import file returns with the pipe character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it may be possible that the value you want to save requires a pipe character, and&nbsp;would cause the import to produce unexpected results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, it is possible to change the separator to some other character, or even multiple characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, use a double pipe character on import:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">add_filter( 'wpcrm_system_custom_field_separator', 'my_custom_field_separator' );\nfunction my_custom_field_separator( $separator ){\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;return '||';\n}<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0wpcrm_system_custom_field_separator filter is used when importing custom fields with one of the import plugins. 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