how to hide a field in node edit form ?

By qqboy on 12 Aug 2015 at 04:58 UTC

Now required that
a field need to be hidden from normal user, and even the author, but not administrator, and also code functions change put value to,
which mean we can use function to insert data to it or load data from database to it,
but now allow user to see or to input value.

Some one suggested the following,
Can some one help us to understand the difference between
-disabled
-access
-hidden
-element-invisible

Thanks a lot.
after thinking, seems that access is a good idea.

Comments

hide field

cmsMinds commented 12 August 2015 at 06:10

Hi,

Try the below listed module,
https://www.drupal.org/project/field_permissions

Thanks

Raj Laddha
cmsMinds
rajesh@cmsminds.com
Drupal Development - North Carolina

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WorldFallz commented 12 August 2015 at 14:36

It's a great module and works brilliantly, but I find it a little heavy just to hide fields as described on the op. For that, I just use hook_form_alter and set the '#access' attribute to FALSE or the '#disabled' attribute to 'TRUE' depending on whether I want to hide it or show it disabled.

Access does not hide the field

klidifia commented 20 January 2019 at 23:40

It stops it being rendered completely. To actually hide it why not set a class, maybe something that already exists in Drupal such as:

['#attributes']['class'][] = 'element-hidden';

Works with JS

duartebriz commented 19 May 2022 at 18:40

This is the only option working if you want to set the value of the field via javascript. A beer for klidifia.

use "hook_form_alter" to hide

vinoth.babu commented 13 August 2015 at 10:22

use "hook_form_alter" to hide the particular form field


function modulename_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  if ($form_id == 'contenttypename_node_form') {
    $form['your_field_name']['#access'] = 0;
  }
}