By melchior on

hi guys,

I'm searching for a long time a solution that enables me to strip down data fields like...

- Authoring information
- publishing options
- Menu settings

... for example

I want to fill this fields only programmaticly by my module.
the user won't need the option to fill this by himself.

currently I found module like formfilter or filterbynode,
but at all those didn't satisfy my needs

thx for comments,
I'm really needin them!! ;)

melchior

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

drawk’s picture

drawk commented

These fieldsets aren't visible to users without the 'Administer nodes' permission. Would it solve your problem if you put your users in a role without this permission, or do you need finer grained control?

You could unset the specific fieldsets you don't want in the form array with hook_form_alter

papile’s picture

papile commented

The suggestion to unset the fields is good, but sometimes unsetting them will cause the next module that fires to get a null value for that. Suppose you have a module that wants to set published = 1 then I would just use #type =>'hidden' for these elements so they are still in the $form object but are not confusing the user. Then again, this is not 100% secure as the person could set the values in post, but as the previous poster said, they should not have admin nodes permission then if that is a factor.

melchior’s picture

melchior commented

thx!!

this works like a charme!

I used #type =>'hidden' by hook_form_alter

best regards,
melchior