I'm creating a contest and the new content type is called nfw_contest (National Family Week Contest). I'm attempting to disable vertical tabs for users when they are creating new content of this type. I found the following:

<?php
// Enable vertical tabs on a form.
$conf['vertical_tabs_forms']['my_form_id'] = TRUE;

// Disable vertical tabs on a form.
$conf['vertical_tabs_forms']['page_node_form'] = FALSE;

// Enable vertical tabs but be selective of which fieldsets are included. By default all fieldsets are tabified. To exclude certain fieldsets, use an array with the fieldset ids associated with FALSE values.
$conf['vertical_tabs_forms']['page_node_form'] = array('menu' => FALSE);
?>

and my question is related to the 'page_node_form' value stated above. I assumed that it would be the name of the content type 'nfw_contest' but this isn't working as expected. Here is the entry I made in the settings.php file.

/*
*
* Disable vertical tabs on a form.
* Disable vertical tabs on National Family Week contest entry
*/
$conf['vertical_tabs_forms']['nfw-contest'] = FALSE;

What format is it seeking here?

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Dalma’s picture

Dalma commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Sorry folks I figured it out myself.
In my case it should be

nfw_contest_node_form

PixelClever’s picture

PixelClever commented

There is a way to disable vertical tabs on a per content-type basis without editing settings.php. It still requires php, but for cases where the settings.php file can't be edited it will still work (which was why I needed it). I made a short tutorial on how to do it here: http://pixelclever.com/how-turn-vertical-tabs-specific-content-type

francis55’s picture

francis55 commented

I tried adding
$conf['vertical_tabs_forms']['my_content_type_machine_name_form'] = FALSE;
into sites/default/settings.php
The vertical tabs were removed, but they were replaced by javascript open/close sections that look even more untidy (my theme is based on fusion).
As usual when giving up on trying to get Drupal to remove stuff and failing, I am now applying the good old CSS solution that may be less elegant but does work:

1) using firebug to find the css class or id of the div section to remove (here, the div has a class="vertical-tabs clear-block" ie 2 classes; we'll just use one)
2) use firebug again to find the id of the page where that section is to be removed. Here it has an id of pid-node-add-my-content-type-machine-name. (Specifying the page avoids having the rule fire on pages where it's not supposed to.)
3) adding the following to the css file of my theme:
body#pid-node-add-my-content-type-machine-name div.vertical-tabs
{display:none !important}

This means informs css to hide the offending section.

This also means that 1) the server has to load the section 2) the CSS has to hide it, which must slow things down, but what the heck, it works...

a.milkovsky’s picture

a.milkovsky
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commented

You can use the module Vertical Tabs Visibility.

This module helps to manage vertical tabs visibility on content type
add/edit forms.

To manage vertical tabs visibility on content type add/edit forms.
simply visit `/admin/config/user-interface/vertical-tabs-visibility`
page and select content types. Vertical tabs at node add/edit form
will be disabled for checked content types.

Currently module is in sandbox.