By gcornoiu on

Hi guys,

I have a Drupal 6 instance with many content types. Most of them have extra fields. What I want to do is hide some common fields like "Comments options", "Menu options", "Publish options" etc. I saw that people use the hook_form_alter. Is this the best way to hide content type fields?

Thanks,
Gabriel

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skizzo’s picture

skizzo commented

In case you want to use a ready-made solution: nodeformsettings allows you
to hide those fields (among others), and it does it via hook_form_alter.

gcornoiu’s picture

gcornoiu commented

Hi skizzo,
I have tried it and I saw that is very basic. A more flexible solution is the formfilter module.

Thanks,
Gabriel

LarsKramer’s picture

LarsKramer commented

I don't know how to hide them completely, but you might want to have a look at Vertical Tabs if you do not know that module already. It makes the node edit form much more pleasant in Drupal 6! And with CCK you can rearrange the fields order so that the most important appear first, and hide the lesser used ones within tabs at the bottom.

Also, for normal content editing and creation, you could log in as a user role without the "administer nodes" permission. Then you won't see most of those options.

Another useful module for customizing the node options is Override Node Options

LarsKramer’s picture

LarsKramer commented

You can use Menu Settings per Content Type to hide the menu options.