Hi,

I searched around the forum but didn’t find any results as to how I can restrict editing of custom profile fileds I have added. What I would like to do is be able to assign members specific information that I can change, but they cannot not. The members should still be able to see this information, it’s just not editable by them.

If anyone knows any ways of doing this, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

If you go to Admin > Custom Profile Fields and create/edit a field then there are two settings in there:

“Is this field visible in public profiles?”
“Is field visible in registration page?”

I believe if you set the first to YES and the second to NO then you’ll have what you want.

Ok, I tried that but it’s not exactly what I’m trying to get. That makes it not viewable on the registration page but unfortuneatly it can still be edited by the users if they go to Member list > My account > Edit your profile.

I need a way to make it so they can never edit it but they can see it when they just do the member list lookup, i.e. they can see the data under the member list .

That would require you to hack the backend code that controls the “edit your profile” page.  You’d probably want to check the previous “Is field visible in registration page?” preference and then determine whether the field can be edited based on the value.

Ok, I did just that.

I looked through the file modules/member/mod.member.php and found the editing of the profile page. On line 441, the SQL call can easily be changed to:

so that it requires that the “Show on registration page” be YES. This seems to working but I’ll keep testing it further.