Thank you for such a wonderful contribution.

I'm not sure if this is a feature request or an oversight. Unlike most other field types, userreference does not have an "allowable values" options. I specifically would like to force users of a particular role to only be able to select themselves, while users of another role can select any user.

Thank you.

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yched commented
Category: feature » support
Status: Active » Fixed

Hm. Right now, using 'Views' mode is way to set complex 'referenceable' rules. This specific rule, however cannot currently be defined out of the box using a View, AFAIK, and you'll need to write your own specific Views filter for this

Maybe another way to get this would be :
- use content_permissions module to deny some roles the 'edit' rights on this field,
- in a custom module, on hook_nodeapi('insert' / 'update'), force the only valid value (current user) into $node->field_foo[0]['uid']
your hook_nodeapi() has to take $node param by reference
you need to make sure your hook runs before CCK's (setting your module's weight to -1)

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akolahi commented

Thank you. What is meant by "'Views' mode". Do you mean views can be used to create CCK forms?

Also, content_permissions would not work since users who don't have 'edit' rights for a field don't take any value for that field, not even the default value (even if the field is required).

Is there a reason why having the 'allowable values' option for userreference would not be a good idea? Seems to me it would be handy for many such reasons... i.e. if you belong to a certain role, your available options are x...

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akolahi commented

For clarification, other field types call this option "Allowed Values" not "Allowable Values". Sorry for the mixup. Allowed values can take either a list of allowed values or PHP code....

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akolahi commented
Category: support » feature
Status: Fixed » Active

Haven't heard anything from yched for a couple days. I'm hoping this is a reasonable feature request as it would be a very helpful addition to CCK.