Hi everyone,
I’m building a frontend post-submission form using BricksBuilder + BricksForge Pro Forms + MetaBox.
I have a MetaBox field (Select) with manually defined static options.
Example options:
• Ethnography
• Participant Observation
• Semi-structured Interviewing
• Focus Groups
In the WordPress admin (Add New Post screen), the field works correctly and displays the options as expected.
However, when I try to use this same MetaBox field to populate a BricksForge Pro Forms → Select on the frontend, the dropdown appears but the options do not load.
What I’ve tried:
• Adding the MetaBox dynamic tag in the Select field
• Removing custom Option child items under the Select component
• Confirming the field ID
• Confirming that the MB dynamic tag outputs the stored value correctly
• Ensuring “Multiple” is enabled/disabled as needed
• Doing everything with taxonomies with the same result
No errors are returned — the list is simply empty.
Only thing that works is making a json from a list and inserting it into a field.
What I’ve learned so far:
It appears that MetaBox static option arrays are not exposed to Bricks/BricksForge on the frontend (only the stored value is available).
Before I switch the field to a taxonomy or write a custom PHP snippet to retrieve rwmb_get_field_settings(), I wanted to confirm:
Question:
Is there any way to populate a BricksForge Select field with static MetaBox options without writing custom PHP, or is this currently unsupported?
Details:
• MetaBox field type: Select
• Field ID: areas_of_expertise_qualitative
• Options defined manually in MetaBox builder
• Works in backend MetaBox UI, not in frontend BricksForge form
Any guidance or confirmation about current support limitations would be appreciated.
Thank you!