Display custom field based on user role

Posted: 14 October 2008 06:38 AM

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I’d like to create some custom fields for entries. My user group “editors” will be able to enter/set the data for these custom fields. My user group “developers” (lower user level) shouldn’t be able to enter/set/write data into these fields. Also, I might want developers to see some of these “un-writeable fields” and some of them be invisible to them.

Is this possible with EE?

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Posted: 15 October 2008 02:05 AM

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Carlos, yes, you could do this. But it would be easiest to do so with the SAEF (Stand Alone Entry Form). You’d have to do a SAEditF (Stand Alone Edit Form) since you’d want to allow them to edit their entries.

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Posted: 15 October 2008 06:52 AM

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Sue, thanks for replying to my question.

Could you give me a link or two to get me started?

I haven’t used EE since 1.4 and SAEF is alien to me. LOL

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Posted: 24 October 2008 10:15 PM

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I setup a Stand-Alone Entry Form at http://www.udevgames.com/index.php/submit/.

I have it displaying the title and a custom field called description

<p>Game Title<br />
<input type="text" name="title" id="title" value="{title}" size="50" maxlength="100"></p>

Description:<br />
<textarea id="{description}" name="{description}" dir="{text_direction}" cols="50" rows="{rows}"></textarea 

This entry has 24 or so fields. At the moment, I am only using two on the form. Does that create an issue?

Because when I click submit, I get “Disallowed Key Characters”

What happens for any custom field or regular field that I don’t include in my form? Do they just remain NULL with no data in them?

I’m pretty lost.

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Posted: 24 October 2008 10:34 PM

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Well, I wanted to display a custom field one at a time, but couldn’t get it to work as stated above. So I used the generic method of

{exp:weblog:entry_form weblog="udg_2001" return="site/index" preview="site/submit" status="pending" show_fields="title|description|genre|requirements|download_one|download_two|download_three"} {preview} <h1>{title}</h1> {display_custom_fields} {/preview} <table> <tr> <td> <p>Title<br /> <input type="text" name="title" id="title" value="{title}" size="50" maxlength="100"></p> <p>URL Title<br /> <input type="text" name="url_title" id='url_title' value="{url_title}" maxlength="75" size="50" /></p> {formatting_buttons} {custom_fields} {if required}* {/if}{field_label}<br /> {field_instructions} {if textarea} <textarea id="{field_name}" name="{field_name}" dir="{text_direction}" cols="50" rows="{rows}">{field_data}</textarea> {/if} {if textinput} <input type="text" dir="{text_direction}" id="{field_name}" name="{field_name}" value="{field_data}" maxlength="{maxlength}" size="50"> {/if} {if pulldown} <select id="{field_name}" name="{field_name}"> {options}<option value="{option_value}"{selected}>{option_name}</option>{/options} </select> {/if} {if date} <input type="text" id="{field_name}" name="{field_name}" value="{field_data}" maxlength="{maxlength}" size="50"> {/if} {if relationship} <select id="{field_name}" name="{field_name}"> {options}<option value="{option_value}"{selected}>{option_name}</option>{/options} </select> {/if} {/custom_fields} </p> <p> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /> <input type="submit" name="preview" value="Preview" /> </p> </td> </tr> </table> {/exp:weblog:entry_form} 

Works, but seems wasteful.

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