Hiding a field from a section editor

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Last Post: November 19, 2009   (RSS)

By gkornbluth - November 16, 2009 - edited: November 16, 2009

Hi all,

I have a (checkbox) field in a membership section editor that indicates if a member was a founding member of the organization.

Since this information will never change, and is only used for generating reports, my client would like to either:

A) Completely hide that field from the section editor, or
B) Make the field uneditable by anyone

Any insights?

Best,

Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [gkornbluth] Hiding a field from a section editor

By Damon - November 16, 2009

Hi,

You can set the field to be:
- Admin Only - Field can only be modified by admin or editor user

Regular users won't see the field.

To do this, Admin > Section Editors > Membership - click modify for the field to hide.

Then in the bottom of the popup in the Advanced Options area, check Field Attributes box for:
- Admin Only - Field can only be modified by admin or editor user
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Re: [Damon] Hiding a field from a section editor

By gkornbluth - November 16, 2009 - edited: November 18, 2009

Thanks Damon.

I already tried that, but since many of the folks that modify the section are classified as "editors" the field shows up for them and is editable.

Best,

Jerry
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Re: [gkornbluth] Hiding a field from a section editor

By Dave - November 17, 2009

There's nothing that really does that right now and I can't think of a quick and simple work-around.

I could tell where to modify the code to make it some admin only fields weren't available to editors (who are kind of like section admins).

Would that work? If not we'd have to get more creative.
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Re: [Dave] Hiding a field from a section editor

By gkornbluth - November 17, 2009 - edited: November 18, 2009

Thanks Dave,

That would probably work, and might be a nice addition to the advanced options somewhere down the road. That would keep those well intentioned "editors" from getting into too much trouble.

Best,

Jerry
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Re: [Dave] Hiding a field from a section editor

By gkornbluth - November 18, 2009 - edited: November 18, 2009

Thanks Dave,

Seems like it will work. I'll try it in a bit.

Any chance that this could become another choice on the admin advanced options menu somewhere down the road?

Jerry
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Re: [gkornbluth] Hiding a field from a section editor

By Dave - November 18, 2009

Yes, down the road we'll want to have thinks like group permissions and more fine grained access control. But there's a lot of scenarios to consider for that so it would probably be the focus on an upgrade release by itself.
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Re: [Dave] Hiding a field from a section editor

By gkornbluth - November 19, 2009

Worked like a charm.

Thanks

Jerry
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