Show/Hide Plugin, Show/Hide Dependant Fields

ditto...I've recently spent hours on this plugin by Chris, and the "plus" one by someone else. While I'm still a neophyte programmer, I can usually get most of this to work with some trial and error and forum requests. It would be AWESOME to have this plugin AND the related records plugin spelled out a bit simpler for entry level programmers using CMSB.

Thanks for the help Greg. You're explanation helps shed some light on how to use the show hide features, but I'm still unclean where exactly the code goes to even begin to build the show / hide feature. See my bold copy next to your example. And many thanks for the help!!!

Zick

//Name of the field in the accounts table you want to use for your 'skill' level. I've used the isAdmin field.
$GLOBALS['BETA_USER_SKILL_FIELDS_SKILL_FIELD_NAME'] = 'isAdmin'; Where does this code go? In a list field type? If Yes as what? A (Use options listed below, Get options from database or
Get options from MYSQL query)

// For each section, copy this block Where does this code go? In a list field type? If Yes as what? A (Use options listed below, Get options from database or
Get options from MYSQL query)
$GLOBALS['BETA_USER_SKILL_FIELDS_CONFIG']['section_name1'] = array(
  // is the user an admin (0 for false, 1 for true) and lists of fields to hide in the section_name1 section
  '0' => array('field_1', 'field_2'),
  '1'   => array('field_1')
);

// For each section, copy this block Where does this code go? In a list field type? If Yes as what? A (Use options listed below, Get options from database or
Get options from MYSQL query)
$GLOBALS['BETA_USER_SKILL_FIELDS_CONFIG']['blog'] = array(
  // is the user an admin (0 for false, 1 for true) and lists of fields to hide in the blog section
  '0' => array('title', 'subject'),
  '1'   => array('')
);

Hi Zick, 

This code just needs modifying in the plugin, you don't need to copy or add it anywhere. You should find it on lines 15 to 30 of showHideFieldsForUsers.php in the cmsAdmin/plugins/ directory.

Thanks!

Greg

Thanks for clearing things up Greg... I've got it up and running. Really nice add-on.

Cheers.

Hi Greg,

Thank you kindly for clearing this up quite a bit more. How would we code this if we want to show/not show parts of the section to several different user levels? Let's say we have 6 user levels: admin, alpha, beta, kappa, omega, and zeta.  And we want admin to see all, alpha to only see "subject", beta to see "subject", "description", "timeline".  The rest see what beta does plus "price", "testimonial", and "delivery_instructions". ?  Thanks!

Hi,

You would need to add a row for each user type that you want to hide fields for, something like this would work:

$GLOBALS['BETA_USER_SKILL_FIELDS_SKILL_FIELD_NAME'] = 'user_levels';

// For each section, copy this block Where does this code go? In a list field type? If Yes as what? A (Use options listed below, Get options from database or
Get options from MYSQL query)
$GLOBALS['BETA_USER_SKILL_FIELDS_CONFIG']['section_name_goes_here'] = array(
  // is the user an admin (0 for false, 1 for true) and lists of fields to hide in the blog section
  'alpha' => array('description','price','timeline','testimonial','delivery_instructions'),
  'beta' => array('price','testimonial','delivery_instructions'),
  'kappa' => array('price','testimonial','delivery_instructions'),
  'omega' => array('price','testimonial','delivery_instructions'),
);

This is just example code, so you'll need to make a few changes to get it working with your site. You'll need to add the section name that this is applicable to $GLOBALS['BETA_USER_SKILL_FIELDS_CONFIG'], and add the field name in the user section to $GLOBALS['BETA_USER_SKILL_FIELDS_SKILL_FIELD_NAME'].

So for each possible option in user_levels I've added an entry to the $GLOBALS['BETA_USER_SKILL_FIELDS_CONFIG']['section_name_goes_here'] array. Then I've added the fields that I don't want that user to be able to edit to that users array.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

Greg

Excellent! Thanks Greg!