get_field not displaying my custom field value

Question

I'm asking regarding the ACF plugin (Advanced Custom Fields)

I'm working on creating a category group that will add custom fields to the category pages. These are the fields:

They seem to work in storing the data (I can see the data is saved with an example category)

According to the docs, I'm supposed to use get_field in the template files to get the value of the custom field. I'm in the category.php template, and using get_field returns FALSE (bool).

Here is my code:

$sub_heading = get_field("sub_heading");

That should get the text that's stored in the "sub_heading" custom field, but instead it just returns FALSE (bool).

I also tried

$sub_heading = get_field("sub_heading", $cat->term_id)

The category page is displaying the category properly, and giving me the title and the description, but nothing is being returned from get_field.

Answer 1

Nevermind, I figured this out.

The id needs to be "category_" and then the ID.

So the code is:

$sub_heading = get_field("sub_heading", "category_" . $cat->term_id);