Hiding fields in non admin records when admins are viewing records

Hey Jerry,

I think you're looking for the  'Access Level' feature for a field. You can change the access level for a field by doing the following:

• Go to the Section Editors Menu.
• 'Modify' the section you want to update.
• 'Modify' the field you want to hide from non-admin users.
• When editing a field, scroll down to the Advanced Options area and under the field attributes change the Access level to Admin Only (see attached screenshot for an example).

Let me know if you've got any questions.

Thanks,

Greg

Hey Greg,

Thanks for looking at this.

Actually I want to do something different.

I have a number of fields in an accounts section that are applicable to admins only. 

I know I can hide those fields from non admins with access levels

What I'm trying to do is...

1) When an admin is logged in, I want those fields to be available to them when viewing another admin record.

2) However I'd like to hide those same fields, even from admins, when they're viewing a non admin record.

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks,

Jerry Kornbluth

Hey Jerry,

Thanks for clarifying, I understand what you're trying to accomplish now. 

Unfortunately, there isn't a way you can do this with the default version of CMS Builder, but we could build a plugin that adds this functionality fairly easily. If this is something you'd be interested in, you can send an e-mail to consulting@interactivetools.com we can write up a brief outline of how the plugin would work along with an estimated cost.

Cheers,

Greg

Thanks Greg,

Appreciate you're sticking with this.

I'll see if the client will spring for it, or if they'll be happy with just assigning those field's access to 'admins only' and putting them at the bottom of the section field list.

Jerry

How about the Show/Hide Dependencies Plus plugin?

With this plugin (it's free) you can show fields dependent on the value of another field.

The readme and sample config file are well documented. 

I use it in a category menu where I have a content-type for page, heading, module, link and divider. It is used to display content and build my navigation bar.

First I set the anyvalue rule to show all common fields.

Then for each of the 5 values, it shows additional fields that apply to that type only.

In your case, set the anyvalue to show all the common fields.

Then set the rule for isAdmin to show those fields. You can have multiple field rules that get chained together.

Thanks Jeff,

I'll definitely check it out.

Jerry Kornbluth