It would be cool to custom define the weight of fields by role. When the form is viewed (at least during development), some up/down buttons (or a weight select box) would allow the user to push the fields up and down (or even just hide the fields.

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Senpai’s picture

Senpai CreditAttribution: Senpai commented
Title: push fields around » Change the ordering of form fields depending on user's role

[changed the title for better clarity and searchability]
I think this is a great idea, and something that Utility would be excellent for. It seems that Devel is more closely suited for php coders, while Utility is for sitewide administrative improvements. This sort of functionality would allow a site's admins, owner(s), devs, content contributors to order the 20 fields on a form the best way they saw fit.

The code should store it's settings in the user_role table, yeah? Never mind, that's only a relational table. How 'bout the profile_fields?

dmitrig01’s picture

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That sounds like a module that I will eventually get to writing, form_alter_api. It'll be able to do all sorts of cool things, so stay tuned

sun’s picture

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CreditAttribution: sun commented

Looks rather like a feature request for (the excellent) Formfilter module to me.
If you agree, let's move this issue over there.

litwol’s picture

litwol CreditAttribution: litwol commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

D5 version is no longer being maintained. marking this as wont fix. will reopen if some one decides to contribute a patch. otherwise stays closed.