Hiding Authored by Field resets author to anonymous

subscribing.

same problem - subscribe

Also the "Authored on" field has the same issue. It becomes blank, so on node edit Drupal updates the node creation date, not the node modified date, as it should be.

I have found the problem and it regards to all fields that is hidden by form filter. The problem is that the field is removed rather than hidden the problem lies in line 130 for 6.x-1.0 and line 126 for 6.x-1.x-dev. See below.

// Set final form of array.
if ($value) {
$element += array(
- '#type' => 'value',
+ '#type' => 'hidden',
'#value' => $value,
);
}

Also in line 117 (6.x-1.0): add two lines:
// nested form elements (element_children).
foreach (element_properties($element) as $key) {
switch ($key) {
case '#tree':
+ case '#id':
+ case '#name':
continue;
default:
unset($element[$key]);
}
}

Then the elements comes out as hidden values that will save the values under node save.

yingtho thank you for providing this fix.
I hope this can the integrated in the next release.

Hi guys,

submitting a patch increases the chances of this issue getting fixed soon. See: http://drupal.org/patch/create if you are not familiar with this process. I am not using this module btw. in case you ask why I don't do it myself.

subscribe

on the advice of dddave I've attempted to generate a patch for this using yingtho's fix.

Work fine for me! I hope that maintainer can create the new release asap.

Thanks!

Applied the patch, not working. When hide the authoring information, author set to anonymous.
any setting in other area I miss? user permission "administer nodes" allow. caches clear. still not working.

any ideas?

... still not working for me too

Patch in #9 does not seem to be working for me. In addition, it appears to be messing up the Polls.module create/edit form.

Side note, is this module even being maintained any more?

I had the same issue and try to investigate it deeper and as I understood seems to be that the #type='value' is not added as $form_state['values']. The following patch fixed the problem for me.

Also, I noticed that happen when the user as 'administer nodes' permission.

patch in #14 worked beautifully and fixed #1704070: Hidden required fields do not get default value and return error as well.